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4 ($.! KSntnun, Salem, CDrcflontatesman . "Ho Favor Stray Us. No Fear Shall tram rim Statesman. March U, 1831 1 f Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPKAOUE. Editor and Publlihef Puoluned vr moraine. Bummn ottiea sat ' Norm Church su, Saiem. Ore- TeUpnona 4-W11 Catarad at th poato&oa at Saiam, Or., as aaeond tliw tniUtt undar act ot ConlrtM March X 1SVS. Member Associated Press Tha Associataa Press u cntitlea exciuaivtiy te the use a for republication of all local newa printed la tnla aawapapar. ' Retreat for Moscow Planners The super-planners at the top in Russia have hid to retreat in the direction of free enterprise. Much as they may worship at the shrine of central planning and socialized agriculture grim necessity has forced them to order a new reorganization of Soviet ag riculture. The one doing it is Nikita Krush chev who is responsible for considerable of the previous juggling with farming. Under the new order planning will be " decentralizecULFarmers will be given more freedom in planning, and they are promised a greater share in increased output for their own consumption or for sale. In brief doctrinnaire Marxism is yielding to the in centive of private profit. . The reason for the change of policy is that serious food shortages exist in the USSR. The new decree admits there have been 'serious shortcomings and mistakes," which have resulted in failure to produce enough foodstuffs for the increasing population of Russia. The cure is the ancient one of ap pealing to the motive, of personal reward (profit) for greater effort The USSR is still a long ways from the U. S. position of occasionally paying farmers not to produce grains and hogs. But our people are a lot better off with the built-in subsidy left over from New Deal days than are the Russians whose bureaucrats have planned the people into varying degrees of hunger. Another Give-Away? The Oregon Journal jums up the Asian situation thus: But one thin is certain. We can't eon- ' tinue forever giving away pieces of Asia to the Communists, even if once more we have to stand and fight If we do, before long all Asia will disappear behind the Iron Cur tain and the free world then will face a war of annihilation. , How can we "give away" stuff! that was never "ours?" Timberline lodge is one of the indispen sable attractions of Oregon. The trouble is that its operators "go for broke." A lot of money has gone down the drain keeping it going; and yet 'it is quite necessary for pub lic recreation and tourist guesthouse. We hope someone steps forward to get it running again, though we are not volunteering. Chiang Kai-shek keeps reiterating his de termination to invade and recapture the mainland of China; and Premier Chou En-lai of Red China reiterates his purpose to at tack and capture Formosa. Now if the two confine their action to threats, war in Asia may be avoided. Sewell Avery must feel beleaguered now, with Louis Wolf son trying to get in the front door of Montgomery Ward's and Dave Beck via the Teamsters Union the back door. But Sthen Avery was never one to run from a battle. . The Statesman notes with regret the pass ing of one of the veterans, in the country newspaper business: Joe Lytle who published the Scio Tribune for some 15 years, and served also as correspondent for The States man. He died at Albany at the age of 84. mi Recent 'Break-Throughs' in Guided Missile Development Termed 'Fabulous7 by Expert By STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Within the last year there have been vitally im portant technonogical break throughs in the art of the long range i missile. These break throughs have made possible a sudden spurt of progress in the missile art progress described as "fabulous" by one authority not given to exaggeration. As a result, there are now serious plans for launching an artificial earth satellite, if possible in two years. But the break throughs have also broueht nearer the time iStcj-art Alf i of the true push-button war the time when one continnet can inflict a murderous hail of nu clear destruction on another. Clearly, the whole national fu ture is bound up in our progress in the missile art This report and another to follow will there fore be devoted to the basic facts about our long-range missile pro gram. What follows has, inci dentally, been examined by com petent authority to i make sure , that it contains nothing useful to Soviet intelligence. ; "; i The long-range missiles fall conveniently into three cate gories the jet-powered pilot less aircraft, the ram jet and the inter-continental ballistics ' missile, respectively known as 5NARX, NAVAHO. and ATLAS. With SNARS we have put at least a big toe over the threshold of the age of the push-button war. SNARK bar intercontinental . range 5.000 miles. And SNARK exists. " The "bird'--to use the word of art of the 'missile men has flown.. The trouble is that H is not really a very useful war bird, although it is an impressive technical achievement. 1 1 Ora., Saturday, March 12, 1955 Medal for Airs Gall of Lebanon . Hats off to Mrs E. A. Gall of Lebanon who defies her enemies seeking to suppress her fight against chiselers on welfare rolls. She says she will persist in her campaign even after receiving threats of bodily harm herself and after her husband was seriously injured by some assailant ' who was seeking Mrs. GalL 1 The special objects of Mrs. Gall's wrath are those rapscalions who refuse to support their children and still have the nerve to claim them as dependents for income tax deductions. - . There are altogether too few such good citizens with such a sense of civic duty. Plenty of people will gripe and complain in general terms about graft and welfare . chiselers; "but they never are willing to ex pose themselves by lodging specific t com plaints with the proper, authorities. 'Mrs. Gall was one who carried on her fight in the open. Evidently she was hitting the : bullseye with her criticisms. The least that government officials can do is to pursu Mr. Gall's attacker and bring him to justice, and weed but the grafters who shamelessly mooch on public bounty. For Mrs. Gall a citizenship medal is in order. Labor Party Split , The running feud between Labor Party Leader Clem Attlee and rebel Aneuran Bevfln tempts the strategists of the Conser vative Party to plug for an early general election. They would make capital of the old rule, "divide and conquer," with the division already set up in the opposition. Bevane organ, The Tribune, edited by his wife, Jeannie Lee, M. P., in a recent issue attacked the "vacillating leadership" of Att lee's and appealed for support against ef forts to expel him from the party.- Bevan opposes plans for rearming Germany in the Western alliance and -is hot for more social ism in Britain. Conservatives must decide whether to call for a general election -this spring or wait until fall or until 1956. i Chances are the Laborites, like Democrats in the USA - (and Republicans) will effect some coalescence to fight their common foe. However, friends of the Conservatives are inclined to say, "sic 'cm, Nye.' SNARK-thirty-odd feet long, built by.Northrup Aircraft flies just under the speed of sound, which is barely lumbering along in the missile range. It . flies high, over 50,000 feet, but not too high for the best Soviet fight ers. A machine flying under the speed of sound on an undeviating, trackable course over hundreds of miles of heavily defended enemy territory is hardly a sure thing to reach the target even assuming that it could be guided to the target 'with absolute ac curacy. For such reasons, there Is a minority view in' the Pentagon that the attempt to develop SNARK as a war weapon should rv abandoned. This view has been over-ruled. But it is clear that, even if SNARIC were fully operational and in quantity production- which it is not the main striking job would still have to be done by Gen. Curtis Le May's Strategic Air Command. SAC's job will sooa be made easier. Incidentally, by RASCAL, another missile name worth re membering. RASCAL Is the shsti-raage alr4-gTad missila which, wul greatly complicate the task ef the Soviet air defease. With NAVAHO, we will step right over the threshold, into the age of the pushbutton war. NA VAHO is a ram jet and true guid ed rnissfle unlike its big brother ATLAS, .it is guided all the way to the target, by the stars. Also unlike its big brother, it can not leave the earth's surrounding -envelope of air. It flies, or will fly, at 50,000 to 50,000 feet, and at slightly under three times the speed of sound. This bird. tee, has flown. At least, the air frame of NAVAHO has been air-tested. Bat there is a leag way between testing mm air frame and fitting the frama with ran Jet engines capable Sen. Harry Byrd has introduced a Joint resolution billing for an amendment of the constitution" which would permit the Presi dent to veto single itefis in appropriation bills. This is highly desirable. It would en able the executive to knock out items that wouldn't stand on their own feet. Our gov ernor has this power now on state appropri ation measures. In 1933 Governor Meier at tempted a reduction veto of an appropriation for higher education. His action was never tested because afterwards the whole appro priation was held up by referendum so the question became moot. It is doubtful if a governor has power to scale down an appro priation, but his authority to veto single, items makes it possible to stop specific "ob jectionable appropriations. The President should have similar authority. 1 After hearing a discourse on art in a Sen ate committee hearing Lowell Steen of Uma tilla county doodled to a . colleague: "The weather and the topic made me think of getting back to the ranch." Used to be the call of the ranch would speed up adjourn ment of the Legislature. Now there is so much business the farmers can't break for home when the sun starts warming things up. It's a good many years since Clint Haight, representing Grant county, shouted that he wanted to go home, back io where he could hear the coyotes howL Albany must be growing up, too the city council has adopted a one-way grid system for a number of its streets. The ensuing squawks may be interpreted as growing pains. We wonder though, is Monroe street, Corvallis, still two-way? i ' ' 3C3 of pushing both frame add war bead from mo continent to an other. I Moreover, altnoofh there have been big break-throagbsw ia the guidance problem the, tough est In the missile art the prob lem of bringing NAVAHO roaring down precisely en a target half a world away las by ae means been solved. Even so, an Informed private guess is that NAVAHO could be made operational, given a major effort, within three years this is not. it should be said, the official scheduling, which would, of course, interest Soviet intelli gence. When NAVAHO is opera tional and in quantity production we will have taken a huge step forward in the missile art Bat NAVAHO will sot be the final step. Evea at three times the speed of sound, such a missile will give seme warning of its ap proach. And a missile which travels within the atmosphere oa an andeviatwg course can be tracked, and it eaa very prob ably be brought dowa. If not with existing weapons, with weap ons of the future. Moreover, since every pound of weight in the warhead sharply reduces the range of a ram jet, there is some doubt that NAVA HO will be able to carry a bulky hydrogen bomb for the distance required. For such reasons, NAVAHO is not the final, decisive weapon. - The decisive weapon Is AT LAS, the iatercontinental ballis tics missile, simply becaase there Is no known defease whatsoever against tater-ceattnental baClsUcs missile. This Is why the IBM. which win be described la an other report ra the long-range missiles, will finally determine the balance of power la the age ef the pnsh-bnttea war, which Is now almost upea as. (Copyrlsiit. 1M. New York Her aid Tribune lac) j GRIN AND BEAK IS BaMBBa saBBjBsBSsaWBBSaaitSSBaBBl t , ' ' . . AW vfcla-WV farming hack tm dock. eW, atf ae hoot lete eeVeosy (Continued from page L) of its knowledge of local condi tions and after consideration of protests that are presented. Clearly the pleas of individuals will have to be subordinated to the good of the whole. The Com mission will have to strike a balance between an iron rigidity in its classification system and a flexibility which would rob it of any efficacy. j There may be categories such as in professional workers in the state system of higher educa tion where classifications should be left largely to the governing boar 4; but in general the prin ciple of uniformity should be fol lowed. Once the system is established Time Flies: 10 Years Ago March It, IMS The United States navy re ceived a potent shot in its air arm with the christening at Newport News, Vs., of the 4o 000-ton aircraft carrier Midway, the largest warship ever built . Heavy snow from 4 to 10 feet deep forced a shutdown of near 1 ly all Clackamas county logging camps. - Practically all Linn county logging operations were paralyzed by the season's worst snow storm in the Cascades, L. O. Arens, State Industrial Accident commissioner, was elected president of the Salem Toastmaster club. Douglas Mul larky was named vice-president, ' Fred MoKinney, secretary-treas- urer and Clay Pomeroy, ser-geant-at-arms. Better English By D. C WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "It is easy to see that she was flustrated because of her inability to play the piano very good." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "process"? 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Disputable, dis satisfaction, diipurse, disburse ment , 4. What does the word "appli cable" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with ob that means "plain; ev dent"? ANSWERS. 1. "She was flustered because of her inability to play "the piano very well." 2. Pronounce the as in en, preferred. 3. Dis perse. 4. Fit; suitable. "Her re marks were not applicable to the situation." 5. Obvious. Oakland Man Heads State Cattle Group 7 L. C. Perrin of Oakland was elected president of the Oregon State Aberdeen-Angus Associa tion at its annual meeting and banquet held this week at Hotel Benton, Corvallis. Qther officers named were Don ald E. Snable. Powell Butte, vice president and Loren Hicks, Tur ner, treasurer. The secretary is to be announced later. Six breed ers were elected to the board of direton: Harold Rankin, Hermis ton; Ben Hilton, Grants Pass; B. J. Kesl, Unity; Archie Riekkola, Astoria, Kenneth Hall, Corvallis, and Alvin A. Cheyne, Klamath Falls., Vacation Due ! i: Adult Classes ! Salem's more than 700 adult education students will observe spring vacation next week. Spring term opens March 2L New classes for spring term in clude advanced public speaking, basic psychology for fcousepar ents II, and photography for be ginners. Additional information and spring term bulletin can be had upon request at the adult education office, 1309 Ferry St IT. . ByLichty says wt'm 5323ShSSBBB it should be guarded against the nibbling which would eat it away. But it would be proper to an nounce that at stated intervals of five or ten years the classifi cation system will be restudied. Within that interval wage adjust ments should be made on uni form terms. , No master plan will be perfect, but one which is fairly, and con scientiously drawn up will i be tar superior to no plan at all. Within a department schedules are inevitable. What remains to be done is to draw the various schedules into a broad, practical master plan for the state. That task should be left with the civil servics commission. t From The Statesman Filet 25 Yean Ago March 12, 1131 Alphonse "Scarface AT Ca pone and his bodyguard, Frank C&ne, walked to freedom from the new prison at Grateraford. Pa. The notorious Chicago racketeer and his bodyguard had served 10 months of a year's sentence for carrying loaded pistols. i The Clarion, newspaper of the High School, edited by David Eyre, was awarded hon ors in competition with school newspapers from all over the country, according to word re ceived from Eastern College Press of Baltimore, Md. i Friends and acquaintances of Dr. R. N. Avison, long-time pas tor of the First Methodist church here, were pleased to hear that he was recuperating zrom an umess of eight months. 40 Yean Ago March iz, 1915 The British battleships Irre sistible, and Ocean and the French battleship Bouvert were blown up by floating I mines while engaged with the remain der of the allied fleet in at tacking the forts In the narrows of the Dardanelles. Frank Meredith, secretary of the Oregon State Fair, board, was offered the secretaryship of the Washington State Fair i Board. For the past five vein Mr. Meredith was secretary of me uregon board and was an : authority along agriculture and ! stock lines. i- j !'" ' ' In a speed contest in type ! writing at a meeting of the Sa lem High school Pearl Martin was winner and Queenie Alport ana brace aiouencop, second and third. YM Swimming Classes Ready , Registration for swimming clas ses at the YMCA will close at noon Saturday, but classes already are almost completely filled, Carl Greider reported Friday night Parents have registered 239 girls and 193 in classes so far. There are still openings, however, for junior high and high school boys and a iris and for vounrstera 9-10 years old. I Classes will begin Monday morning. ; Prisoner Nearly Gains Freedom On Technicality A man recently convicted of obtaining money by false pre tenses almost gained freedom Fri day, but before be could be re leased from Marion County jail two new complaints had been lodged against him. The man, Reginald. Hyde Por ter, whose true name reportedly is Douglas Johnson, got an order from Circuit Judge George Dun can for judgment notwithstand ing the guilty verdict en a legal technicality involved in the case, a cheek charge. Two additional check charges were immediately filed against Porter in district court.' i . House Votes o Opposition to Tariff Drop The Oregon House of Repre sentatives completed 'legislative action Friday on a memorial ask ing Congress to defeat President Eisenhower's program to reduce tariffs. The' vote was 40 to IS. The Sen ate has passed it 20 to 10. Of the 40 votes for the mem orial, 38 were east by Republi cans. The only GOP members voting to support the president were speaker Ed Geary, Klamath Falls, and Elmer Deetz, Canby. The memorial says that the tariff reduction proposal "would threaten the possible destruction or substantial curtailment of ag ricultural and other industries which are vital to the ecenomy of the State of Oregon." It adds that the legislature is "greatly concerned" about tariff reductions which already have been made on farm commodities. The tariff cutting authority is now before the U. S. Senate, fol lowing House approval in Wash ington, D. C. Cherry industry leaders have taken the lead among Willamette Valley agriculture interests in opposing the Congressional move. Salem Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution against it Rep. George Annala, Hood River Democrat, said during the hour-long debate that Oregon's Cherry Industry is being threat ened by imports from Europe. But Rep. Kay Meriwether, Portland-Democrat, answered that America must lower its tariffs to help her allies. Sep. Alfred H. Corbett, Port land Democrat added that "this memorial is a great disservice to the country. We have to decide whether well go it alone with higher tariffs, or strengthen our allies." Measure to Ask Primary In Late June Sen. Pat Lonergan (R) Portland, said Friday he is introducing a substitute for his bill to change the primary election date from May to August. The substitute would have the primary on the fourth Tuesday in June. Leaders of both major parties opposed the existing bill because it would abolish the presidential preference primary and the elec tion of delegates to national party conventions. ( But with the June primary, the people still could elect delegates and express their presidential preferences. Miss Gilles to Be Installed in National Post Miss Mathilda Gilles. nrtneinal of Richmond School, will be form ally installed as president-elect of the nation's elementary principals ai a oanquet to oe neld In Chica go next Friday night Miss Gilles was notified of her election to the post following a mail ballot taken in January. She win serve as president-elect for one year and will take over active presidency next year. Miss Gillea-will lav fiv n1n today for Chicago and prior to her -Installation will attend an executive committee meeting of the Department of Elementary Principals of the National Educa tion Association, set for Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. Test Finds Pheasants Disease Free Chicken or turkey flocks visited by pheasants from the state game farm at Corvallis won't need1 to worrv about nullorum nr tvnhnM infection. That's the word of Earl Reit staa, poultry and turkey improve ment supervisor for the Stat n. partment of Agriculture. The de- paruneni iesiea trie z,uoo pheas ants at the Corvallis game farm this week and didnt' find a single reactor to either pullorum or typhoid. This is the fifth vear thm A. partment has made pullorum tests ai me game sarm, and each year no reactors were found. The ty phoid testing was added this year. 4 OrtjKonCDtateio&n Phone 44111 Subscription Sates By carrier ia cine: Daily and Sunday 9 i.s per m. Daily crdy . , , , 1.2s pr mo. Sunday only , uo wak By ssalL Suday ealyt Ut advance) Aaywbara laU,& JOparme. S.7S six me. S.00 year By aman. Dally aad Sudayi (in advance) la Orego. . I me per mo. tM sixmo. 10.M year In Tj. s. outside Orcfoa - Jt 141 per mo. Aadtt Bmreaa ef Ctralaaa -Bmreaa f Advertismg. AMfA Orefea Mewtpaper . l-aattshen AeaoctatJea AdveratiBS acprcscBtattvest Ward-Oriffttk ce.. West BnUJda? Ce Mew Tor Chlea-e Oetratt House Group IDofca Korea Veteran Bonu 'The Joint Ways and Means Com mittee of the Oregon Legislature recommended defeat Friday of a proposed constitutional amend ment to pay a maximum $600 bonus to veterans of the Korean War.: v. .., j ' It was a voice vote, and only one or two votes for the bonus could be beard. If the House ac cepts the committee's reco- mendation, the bonus would be dead. The measure, by Rep. Maurine Neuberger (D), Portland, would be referred to the people at the 1956 general election. , It would give the Korean veterans' the same bonus that was given to World War II veterans.,: The committee's vote came after a 6-4 defeat of a motion ; to bury the resolution in committee. Refase te Vets' , 1 Sen. John Merrifield (B). Port land, said he would "refuse to vote for this resolution unless the people say where -the money will come from." 5 . . j Sen. John Hounsell (R). Hood River, who also opposed the bonus for World War II veterans, said he opposed the Korean bonus be cause it might force anincrease in property taxes. . The committee approved a House - passed bill to I increase from 20 to 25 years the period in which veterans can pay -off their state farm and home loans. It tabled a bill to give the State Finance Department authority over the State Motor Vehicle Division, which now is under the Secretary of State. . Agency Bin - There is another b31io trans fer the Motor Vehicle Division to a separate administrator under the governor. This one ' probably will be approved by the Senate Highway Committee early next week. ' ' i i The Ways and Means Commit tee approved a "Senate-passed bill to broaden the public ; employes retirement law. It tabled a mea sure to permit advances of travel expenses to state employes. The committee questioned the constitutionality of a ' bill which would pay $740 in indemnities to four Willamette Vallley farmers who had to kill sheep to prevent spread of disease. This bill went back to a subcommittee after some of the legislators, suggested House to Act On Libel Bill A bill to limit damages which might be decided" by a court in cases of inadvertent libel will be up in the House for action Monday. : This bill was declared constitu tional Friday by Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, i an opinion which bad been ashed by Senate President Elmo Smith, who is a newspaper publisher at John Day. The House Judiciary committee has recommended that the bill be passed. It provides that when a newspaper or radio commits libel accidentally and makes a retrac tion, .the damages which can be collected would be only the actual damages to the person libeled. In other words, general : damages couldn't be assessed, against the paper or radio station. Salem Girl, 15, Succumbs to - Short Illness - i - Lynne Gray, 15, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert- F.' Gray, 2494 Walker St died Thursday a few hours after being taken to a Sa lem hospital. .'She reportedly had a cold earlier in the week but did not become serioasly ill until shortly before her death. Born at Bend June 22, 1939, the girl moved to Salem with her Sarents in 1942. She attended ichmond School land Parriih Junior High School prior to enter ing North Salem High. Surviving in addiaon to the par ents are two brothers, Terry and Johnny Gray of Salem; grandpar ents. Mrs. J. E. Gray of Salem, and Mrs. Dale Babeock of Milton- Freewater: aunts. Sirs. J. L. Bat- dorf and Mrs. Ted Girod, both of Salem; and uncles,! Clifford Orey of Salem, Millard Orey of Seattle and Donald Gray cf Bend. Funeral services; will be held Monday at 2 p. in. at Clough- Barrick chapel. Eev. Ernest r. Goulder will officiate. Spacious Accommodations ' apd Flexibility for Large or Small Funerals 1 $5014650- m 1 -K- . . i Church and Ferry Streets s the general indemnity act passed in 1953 should be amended to teke care of the sheep claims rather than a separate bill apply in onlv f n taur ncrwrn ' " Measare Endorsed The bill increasing real estate broker and salesman license fees was endorsed1 for passage. This is prompted by the State Real Estate Association which wanted more revenue under the state real estate licensing program to sup port an added inspector and edu cational work. Ways and means committeemen decided to introduce a bill to do away with the State Flax and Linen Board. Subcommittee men reported that the state's flax in dustry is now confined to opera tions at the flax plant, although several cooperative flax plants were tfnift? when the baard was set up. Senate Okelis Natural Gas Service Bill A bill looking forward to the time when Oregon will be served . 9 wiia natural gas was passed xri day by the Oregon Senate. It provides that no gas line can : be built into any city or suburbs until the gas line com pany gets a public utilities com missioner certificate after a pub lic hearing. No certificate could be granted unless the PUC finds that a community lan t , served, or unless it is served by a com pany that can't or ' wont pro vide sufficient gas service. The purpose of the bill is to protect existing companies from competition in the retail markets. It now goes to the House for action. The Senate voted 23-7 for a house bill that requires candi dates to have their filings in the state elections division by 5 p. m. on the last day of the filing period. The bill would bar mailed filings which are received after the filing period closes. A bill clarifying and strength ening the state potato grade and brand law was approved by the House and sent to the Senate. The House voted 30 to 28 to take another look at one of the three workmen's compensation bills passed Thursday. . It in creases benefits for temporary total disability. The motion was made to re call the bill from the Senate after it was explained that an artuarv.for the State Industrial Accident Commission had pro vided incorrect figures as to the effect of the bilL - The House passed the Senste approved measure to provide free textbooks for 7th and 8th grades whether in a grade or Junior high school. A bill to require the same school district sick leave policy for non-teaching employes as for teachers was sent back to com mittee at the chairman's request Thornton Rules Airborne Liquor Unconstitutional A bill to permit commercial air lines to serve liquor to their pas sengers was ruled unconstitutional by Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton Friday. Thornton held that since the con stitutional provision for liquor by the drink doesn't mention airlines, they can't serve liquor. The bill has been passed by both houses, but the Senate recalled it from the Governor when doubts .as to its constitutionality - were raised. 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