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4-Sec lMfatwaman, Salem, Ore Saturday,' April 9, IMS GRIN AND BEAR IT By Uclity "No Favor Sxcayt Ia. No Tear Shall Atc" from Urst Statesman. Harca t. 1151 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. tdiua and Publisher PuolUfied tvtnr morning. BuKnass olfioe 290 . Norm Chttfcn It, Mslem, Ore- Ttlennona 4-6811 EaltrN at the potofflc at Salam, Or, as second daM matter undtr act at Confrtu March X 1S78. Member Associated Preu j- - The Aaseclatea Praa la entitled exclusively to the se tor republication of ail local Dews prill tad in this newspaper. High Price for Timber j , The Bureau of Land Management held 1 timber sale in Roseburg a few days ago. The 22,720 MBF of timber sold at 225 per cent of appraised prices, bringing a total of $855,384 as compared with the Appraisal of $379,148. One batch of salvage timber had been appraised at $12.70 for Douglas fir, and the high bid was $41.60 per MBF. Highest bid was $47.75 for another parcel of Douglas fir. 1 : , ' Who's crazy now? j Are the appraisers "giving" the stuff away, or what? A variety of reasons are attributed for" this , frequent occurrence of prices realized on sale running well in excess of appraised prices. The chief reason is simply the eagerness of mills to get hold of timber. In seasons -, of strong lumber prices the bids run high; when the lumber market is weak sometimes very few bids are received, occasionally none. The appraised price reflects "the base price set by the estimators but it doesn't attempt to guess on the hunger of the mill owner for logs to fill orders or keep his mill going. Right now the private timber; is pretty badly depleted save that in hands of big corporate interests. There is far more mill capacity in Southwestern Oregon than the annual growth justifies.! Many of these mills have cut out the block! of timber originally owned, and presumably their plants are charged off as assets. The pressure now falls on government timber, that on O & C lands administered by BLM and that in the na tional forests. Government agencies limit sales to : preserve sustained yield, so there isn't enough timber offered to satisfy the singing bites of mill saws. It isn't surprising that mills are forced to suspend operations permanently. More will; do so, especially in that new milling area of Southwest Oregon. Meantime timber brings very high pricjssX to help fill the treasuries of public bodies which . have a proprietary or legal interest in such sales. Organization Wins in Chicago Richard Daley, Democrat, won election as mayor of Chicago over Bob Merriam, Re publican. His lead was only 123,000 which , is mighty small for a city that large and one which has long been tightly controlled by the Democratic party organization. At that the opposition forced changes on the Daley ticket, the candidate for city clerk dropping' out under fire, and another substitution made for city treasurer. Chicago is not boss-ridden as it was in the days of the Kelly-Nash machine. It is organization-ridden. The ruling organization holds the city council in pawn, the city and county party organization, and segments of the Republi can organization (West Side). It also keeps segments of big business in leash. Such a combination is hard to whip. Some day the people of Chicago will wake up and throw off this corrupt control of its political life. Bob Merriam waked many of them up; and Daley who is reputed to be a decent fellow personally, will surely have enough political sense to keep his administration from devel oping a big stink. Noses in Chicago are more sensitive since Merriam made his campaign. Death of the 'Vamp' ' While new stars claim the Oscars and new starlets aspire to greater brilliance one by one the stars of yesteryear do the final fadeout. To most movie-goers today Theda Bara was unknown as an actress and hardly familiar as a name. Yet a quarter; century ago she was a flame in the world of the silent movies. She was the original! "vamp" of the films, whose luscious sexy roles had great box office appeal. Clara Bow, the "It" girl, who came later, was more saucy, less exotic. Miss Bara retired from the movie Stage in 1926, lived quietly with her hus band. Months ago cancer fastened its grip on her, and numerous operations failed to stay its malignant course. Now she is dead, but the period she made famous, long since passed into limbo. Credit Sen. Richard L. Neuberger with a clean-cut promise to combat the flooding of Echo Park by a hydroelectric dam. The Statesman protests the whole big undertak ing as too costly for the meager benefits which would accrue. But what ought to. be saved if the project is to go forward is the wilderness area of Echo Park, now part of Dinosaur National Monument Neuberger confirms his loyalty to conservation by re sisting pressures to flood this unique geo graphic feature. How Many Soldiers? i According to General Ridgway the cuts In military manpower were not recommend ed or approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So it must have been the civilians in the Department of Defense who ordered the trimming. Under the plan the Army for in stance would be reduced from 1,270,000 men to 1,027,000. . - The cuts are predicated on the theory that with our assortment of atomic weapons our armed forces will be quite able to meet such eventualities as may occur. The cuts indi cate tne kind of war the administration is' preparing against. The civilian, bosses may be right, but we recall how Louis Johnson boasted he was trimming off the fat, not the muscle in his scale-downs of 1949. A "proper burial for old cars' is demand ed by the Oregonian. We underscore it. A trip by train or car across the transcontin ental routes reveals a succession of towns with cemeteries at one end and auto bone yards at the other. In the latter the bodies remain exposed in a most unlovely array. Too bad the metal scrap in them isn't worth the mashing and baling and shipping. The editors of "Questions of Economy' the leading Russian journal on economics, have published a full confession of errors in their advocacy of greater stress on con sumer goods and less on heavy industry. That of course was the gospel truth as re vealed by Malenkov three years ago and up to 193S. Now it is heresy according to the present ruling regime in the USSR. This shows how terrible conditions are in Rus sia. In this country no editor ever admits he was wrong! A Beverly Hills judge issued a warrant for Marilyn Monroe, not for her calendar art however, but for failing to appear on a traffic charge. It probably is better if she doesn't show up, considering the resulting traffic jam. Churchill to Keep Active But Unlikely to Take Part, Even as Adviser, In Parley at Summit' By STEWART ALSOP WASHINGTON Tha dinner tt 10 Downing Street the eight be fore Sir Winston Churchill re signed as Prime Minister of Britain must have been a mov ing occasion, in a peculiarly Brit ish way. According to one of those present, who has de scribed the oc casion by over seas telephone, the high point 'of the evening came just aft er the old Prime Minister had drunk his toast to the Queen, to "the sacred causes and wise and kindly way of life of which Your Majesty is the young, gleaming champion." When the old man kat dowa, the guest were surprised U see the Queen rise, lift her (lass, and ta a simple- speech, toast "the health of my Prime Minis ter." The toast had a special, very English meaning. For as the young Queen noted, no reign ing British monarch has ever before thus responded to the tra ditional toast to the occupant of the throne. To tha trndiUon minded British, the gestnre was no doubt more meaningful than the offer of any number of duke doms. , The transfer of power is always a sad and moving spectacle, but especially so in the case of tha great CburchOL Yet Sir Winston, it should be said, has no inten tion of quietly Jading away. It is not in his nature. To be sore, he Intends to make a special effort not to teem to overshadow his saceessor, Sir Anthony Eden, for whom he has a genuine if somewhat puckish affection. After his retara ttesa his meath's vacation la Sicily, ChnrchOl .may appear on tele rision two or three timet, to campaign, for the Conservatives la the election, bow believed cer tain to take place la late May. Bot he will do. what he can to make awe that the tew Prima Minister, rather than the eld. at the central flgare la the eam paiga. The Conservatives are expected,- rightly or wrongly, to wia the election by a comfortable margin. This is the main reason why Churchill at length chose this time to step down. Until re cent weeks, he had intended to stay on until about October, in the hopes that in the meantime the "meeting at the summit," first proposed by him, might take place. But Churchill is nothing if not a loyal party man, and he was persuaded at length that the split in the Labor party present- , ed the Conservatives with a gold en opportunity which they could not afford to miss. He had al ready agreed that ho should step down before the election, to give Eden a chance for a clear popu lar mandate. So at last, with the infinite reluctance of a man who loves power, he let it be known that the time of departure had come. The depart aro to real la the sent that Churchill wul never again participate la' a British government. Moreover, contrary to some reports, he has a inten tion af taking part In n meeting at the tmnuntt, which now loofca very mnch more probable than when he first proposed it He knows that Eden's pooiUon, to pnt It mildly, would be almost impossibly difficult if he were to participate la inch a conference. Moreover, to go to such a meet ing at a mere adviser and sec ondary figure would be a weak anti-climax to his career, and Ch urchin is not fond of aaU climas.es, . For a time, Churchill will spend most of his days at ChartweU, painting, building things (be is the original exponent of the do-it-yourself cult), feeding his be-, loved goldfish, and complete writ ' ing a three or four volume his tory of the English-speaking peo ' pies. The history project might be enough to occupy the time of most 80-ytar-old men. But not ChurchilL As he himself is said to have pointed out with some as perity in recent days, he may have said farewell to the Pre miership but he has ' most de cidedly not said farewell to Par liament or public life. . In short, the last has by no means been heard from the great old man. His beloved Parlia ment wul give him the platform tram which to apeak en tha sub- 1.7 t.. II ltlMIIMMk. T.M 1 AjtO-l "I I) S. Already "Way, Momf . . . flf ee e perfect link eentemoa . . . II you reotfy went oeope to think yWt t mother of a trvttnfd, backward chM . . " ill Aii htenrotation provided by The Upper Room 'Suggestion' Plan Drawing Ideas ' I : Suggestions pertaining to the new state government "sugges tion box" on a $28,000 scale al ready have arrived, but the pro gram can't start until late this summer . This "suggestion box" is a state employe awards' program recently passed by the Legisla ture and signed Friday by Gov. Paul Patterson. It will become law 00 days after the session is adjourned. I The suggestions already; re ceived, said Gov, 'Patterson, are the names of various employes who might serve on the awards board. But nothing wili be done about the appointment of a three-mem ber board or the program secre tary until the law takes effect, said the governor. Under the bill, sponsored by Sen. John Merrifield (R), Port land, $10,000 a year for the j next two years is set aside from-civil service funds for prizes to be awarded by the board to state em ployes who suggest means of promoting efficiency and econo my in state governmer t In addition. $8,000 is appropri ated for administrative expenses. The part-time secretary will not be paid in addition to the salary he gets for his regular state jqb, but he may be paid expenses. Solons Clash Over to Agency Spending Board Oversee Debate Due on RESURRECTION It was the day of Resurrec tion! From the mockery of a trumped up trial, from the in sults of hypocritical judges, from the cruel death that only a pagan Rome could devise . . . One man rose victorios to live for ever and forever I As evening drew near, twilight . shadows' fell across the little group of women and faithful fol lowers who had spent all day weeping at the foot of the cross. Tomorrow would be the Sabbath and they knew that superstrict religious law did not allow any one to be buried on the Sabbath. The high priests who were chief ly responsible for Jesus' crucifix ion were anxious to have his body down and out of view of the highway before the Holy Day be gan. It was a very devout and kindly man who came forward to offer i a burial place for the Master's body, Matthew, the gospel-writer, tells the story: And when even was come, -there came a rich maa from Aiimathea. named Joseph, who! ItlO Uaildtrat also himself was Jesus Disciple: Vf II C CTCIlCtiUl this maa went to Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded It to be given up. And Joseph took the body, and wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, and laid It In his own new tomb, which he had hewn out of the rock: and he. rolled a' grent stone to the door of the tomb, nnd departed. Now late on the Sabbath Day, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. And the angel said unto the women, "Fear not ye; for I know that ye seek Jesus, which hath been crucified; He is not here; for he is risen; even as he said; come, see the place where the Lord lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples. He is risen from the dead; and lo, he goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him: lo. I have told you." (Continued from page 1.) until that injustice was recti fied. What they demand is re storation of Arabs to their hold ings in Israel, reparations, inter nationalization of Jerusalem resolutions which UN has been powerles to implement py." Modernization is coming however. Under the smiling sur face there are fears, particularly of Communism. One-sixth of the 18,000,000 population of Thai land are persons of Chinese descent Jsct which now almost obsesses kn to the exclusion of all others the quest for peace in the nuclear age. It win he well worth waiting to hear the results of Churchill's musings ea this subject, in the Intervals between goldfish-feeding and history-writing. Five er six years ago, when the atomic ago waa young, Churchill was heard to remark half to himself at a small luncheon that he had known war was coming from the moment RlUer took power he felt It la his heart. "But," he continued, "I do not feel It la my heart now." So far, he has been right again and again the spectre of world war has loomed up over the world, and then receded. And it is a little reassuring, at least, to learn that even no, in the infinitely more menacing shadow of the hydrogen bomb, the old man still does not "feel war In his heart" At any rate, citizens of the civilized world he ' helped to save will join in the hope that his brave old heart will continue to beat for a very long time.' (Copyright 1955. New York Herald Tribune Inc.) Better English By D. C WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sentence? "Fred says he has got to attend the meeting, although he knows the speeches will be overly long." 2. What is the correct pronun ciation of "sachet"? 1 Which one of these words is misspelled? Apellation, apa , thetic, apostrophe, aptitude." .4. What does the word "dor mant" mean? G. Ramachandran of India, disciple of Gandi and director of rural training, declared that the challenge of Asia nations had just recovered freedom after centuries of colonialism. They need "peace and time" to mature their government and their economy, and that is their "passionate longing." He said: "We can solve our problems if we have breathing-time" but the outbreak of world war would involve them all and cripple them for decades. Speaker for South Viet Nam, Cai Thai Bao, sketched the dam age done to Viet Nam by the Communists of China. "Our country,'! he admitted, "was almost destroyed." Their prob lems are first to resist Com munism and second to build a strong, democratic government George K. Togssaki, Tokyo publisher and past president of the Rotary Club, said that Jap an's problems stem from its steady growth in population: now 88 million in an area the size of Montana, only 17 per cent of which is arable. To en able the population to subsist it is necessary to rebuild indus try and; restore world trade. "Two-way trade, not aid, is the better way." None of these dealt with the broad problem of ' Asia, but Roberta Villanueva, a brilliant young Filipino newspaperman, did. He referred to Asia as in . ferment' The restlessness of spirit is the emergence of na tionalism which is suspicious of strong countries for fear of a renewed ! colonialism. This ex plains some of the anti-foreign attitudes. He urged the United States to carry on with its pro gram of help to the people of Asia, promising it would return big dividends. It was a privilege for an Oregon audience to hear the statements of these intelligent guests from overseas. (All spoke in Eng lish). They themselves are the best proof of the possibilities latent among the people we are apt to regard as backward. The Arab side of the Israel contro versy was stressed; but had Israeli been present they would have made an effective argu ment for Israel. This is one of the acute problems in human relations, and one of the most stubborn. The Indian was correct; "Peace and time." Not only India but other nations needs these factors which through the erosion of hatreds may ultimate ly permit solutions to problems wmcn now seem impossible. Per County ) The House will debate Monday on the ; proposed constitutional Renewed agitation for a single state board to oversee" the op erations of private agencies that receive state funds brought a sharp exchange of opinion Fri day in the Oregon House of Rep resentatives. Rep. G. D. Gleason (D), Port land, protested a bill giving the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry in Portland $13,500 to help carry on its work for the next two years. Gleason said the museum didn't ask for state assistance in 1851, but got $15,000 from the 1953 legislature. He contended tourist and educational attrac tions should be self-supporting. Gleason was supported by Rep. E. D. Mann (R), Medford, who asserted the Jackson County his torical society and some other groups interested in preserving Oregon relics didn't ask the state for money. Rep. Fred Meek (R), Portland, State Welfare Fund Okehed By Committee First of the major state budgets was approved Friday by the ways and means committee of the Ore gon Legislature. This was the S69 million public welfare budget, approved just about as the governor had recom mended, which was about $3 mil lion less than the welfare commis sion had asked. The overall bud set includes amendment to, give each Oregon j state, county and federal funds. said the house "wasn't consis tent in handing out funds. He criticized approval of a $50,000 appropriation for the State Cap itol Planning Commission for architectural planning and land scaping of the capitol mall are, adding "completion of that proj ect is still 25 years away." Rep. William Bradeen (R), Burns, chairman of the House state and federal affairs commit tee, recalled his committee had tabled a proposal early in the session to create a state board to supervise the budgets of agencies concerned with historical ma terial . i The House approved and sent to the Senate nine more appropri ations and budget bills, in all, Friday. No changes were made from ways and means committee recommendations. No major state departments were affected. . HOW CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALS Station KSLM 1390 K. C. Sundays 10:15 A. M. r county one senator. It is ex pected to provoke a bitter de bate, being opposed by Mult nomah County legislators, j and advocated by some upstate law makers. The House elections commit tee split 8 to 5 in favor of the bill. ' The Senate passed and sent to the Governor a bill to increase the $5 daily jurors' fees to $7.50. A bill approved 'by the House and sent to the Senate would create a three-man state census board to make annual popula tion estimates for every city in th state. These estimates would be used as a basis for distrib uting State Highway and liquor revenues to cities. Solon's Absence Stops Wheels Of Legislature Sen. Robert D. Holmes ;D, Gearrart, left for' a luncheon in Portland while the Senate wai in session Friday, and his absence stopped legislative proceedings for a half hour. The minor crisis arose when Sen J. O. Johnson, 4R), Tigard, asked for a call of the Senate on his motion to reconsider the vote by which the Senate had defeated 16-14 a bill to lift the ceiling on liquor licences for private clubs. A call requires every senator to be present, unless he has been excused. Holmes wasn't. Sergeant-at-arms Vern L. Drag er asked the state police to inter cept Holmes.. When no trace of Holmes had been found shortly after noon, Sen. Lowell Steen, MU-ton-Freewater, asked that the call be concelled. It was done by exactly the -two-thirds majority required. Then Johnson's motion to reconsider was defeated 15-13. Sen. Holmes returned Friday afternoon. His vote wouldn't have changed anything. Amount required of the state gen-' eral fund is $31 million. Included in the budget is $30,000 the commission is directed to use in setting up an investigation bur eau to check on fraud cases and help enforce court orders direct ing fathers to support their chil dren. Two committeemen voting against the budget because they thought it should have been re duced were Sens. John Merrifield (R), Portland, and Sen. Gene Brown (R, Grants Pass. ma iiimamc LlLTJ 3 I CHIMD'1 yhm i955 MM Solon Off for Chicago Meet Sen. Rudie Wilhelm, (R), Port land, chairman of the Senate Tax ation Committee, leaves today to spend a week In Chicago. He will attend a convention of the Ameri can Warehousemen's Association. Wilhelm said he doesn't expect the committee to act on the rev enue program while he is gone. ' The committee Is considering the House-approved income tax in crease an dcigarette tax bills. lc'(Jtii!UlS!"!l8l Time Flies: From The) Statesman Files The question: "What should the U.S. know about Asia?" was posed to others of the mission. Musa Nasid of Jordan reiter ated the Arab complaint over Israel. He said the U. S. is try ing to fight Communism with military means. It should prac tice a policy of idealism as well and prove it by deeds as well as words (removing injustice to Arabs). : The speaker for Indonesia, Mo hamad Roem, former foreign minister gave assurance that there would good elements in 5. What is a word beginning with ar that means "laborious; - his country which would win it difficult"? for democracy. He urged friend- ANSWERS ly association between the VS. 1. SayiFred says he must inA !d25? tt nttmrf th maaHfi. al.rt H WCIe n i?.""T m"nc. knows the speeches will be too long." 1 Pronounce sa-sha, first a as In sad, second a as in say, accent second syllable. 3. appel lation. 4. Sleeping: Inactive. "Some animals are dormant throughout the winter." I. Ardu- Miss Nilawarn Pintong of Thailand, another woman editor, told of the change occurring in her country. The people, fol- , lowers of the Lord Buddha, are a very happy, peaceful people. They are a ed of inertia, of being lazy; f "the Thais need very little to make them hap 10 Years Ago April I, IMS Still below normal in weight, Kenneth Grimes whose last ad dress was San Tomas prison . camp at Manila, is back in Sa lem in what he said was "the first American home I've been in since the war." He is at the home of his sister, Mrs. H. B. Unruta. Dr. Stefanus Francois Naude Gie, M, minister of the Union of South Africa to the United States, died after suffering a cerebral -hemorrhage. Editorially Three men have drowned in the Sandy River dur ing the current rush for catching smelt The soore is nearly as bad as deer hunting, though no one was shot for a smelt. 25 Years Ago, April a, me Action -favorable to the early construction of a $60,000 gymna sium at the Salem Indian school at Chemawa, to be one of the most complete and modern struc tures of its kind to the nopiifwest, was taken in Washington, D. C. At St Louis, creaking wheels of 10 covered wagons were oiled and leather jackets, squirrel caps and other articles reminiscent of pioneer days were borrowed for the re-enactment of the first wag on train over the Oregon Trail. Paul Whitman, the ."King of Jazz." is at the auditorium in Portland enroute to New York to be the feature attraction of his picture, "King of Jazz." Multnomah Court Change Proposed Multnomah County does not need any more circuit judges but does need some reorganization of its court system, Rep. G. D. Glea son, (D), Portland, told a ways and means subcommittee Friday at the Capitol. Gleason said it would not be out of line to reduce the circuit court vacation period in Multnomah County from two months to one month and improve the work hab its of the judges. He also suggested that the probate judge be made the presiding judge and that great er usage be made of the court rooms. DELUXE REFRIGERATOR Giant-Size Freezer Chert Now "Handidor" Storage Outstanding New Styling i KeOutrtondlnf New ryl J-" TT II " l Yours for as little as $5)99 a & Week KING-SIZE Trade-in Don't De7ay-Ccm In TOD ATI CHERRY CITY ELECTRIC 1339 Chemekota St. Ph. 26762 40 Years Ago ; April 9, 191S Herbert A. Munter, who claim ed the northwest record for alti tude In an airplane, wrote to W, Al Jones, secretary of the Oregon State Fair Board, from his head quarters in Seattle, asking for an opportunity to fly during8 the state fair. Lt. Capt. Thierfeider, com mander of the' German cruiser! 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