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et-$e. 1-Sfarfrrfah, Salem, 4 dlrejaontaf esman "No Favor Stcaii D. No Fear Shall Aict FTon First gtttesman. mrci za, lasi Statesman Pntlishing Company , CHARLES A. SPRAGUE. Editor and Publisher ?uDUsm4 ever? morning. Busmen office 3M Norm Church St, Saltm. Ore. Telephone 4Hn Entered at the poetoffice ax mwh, wt. .Y? rlss matter under act ot Conareaa alarcn X liember Associated Press The Associated Press is entitled xcnn3y to Iho m iar republication of all local mwi printed la this DrwiDtpcr. Peron's Power Threatened Argentina, but there are some indications that President Peron may have suffered a mortal blow in the events of recent weeks. Hi? feud with the established Catholic church which led to his excommunication culminated in a naval-led revolt. While the Army sup pressed this revolt the episode elevated into authority as "Commander-in-chief of the Forces of Repression" Gen. Franklin Lucero of the Army. He fended off the revolt, re established order, protected worshippers at tending sen-ices on Sunday. An AP report via Montevideo stated that Lucero was try ing to set up a three-man governing commit tee: Peron, Lucero and Rear Admiral Teisare. Such a junta would mean that Peron has been forced to share his previous dictatorial power. Since in Latin American countries the Army-holds the .keys to authority Lucero would seem to bejin position to enforce such demands on Peron as he cares to make. , The President of Argentina- has been de scribed as a recluse since the death of his wife Evita, rarely appearing in public, ruling through ministers and subordinates; but still exercising command. He may have overr reached himself in his defiance of the church, as have many other heads of the civil state in history. : ' One thing Is almost certain, the overthrow of Peron would relieve the country and the western hemisphere of a most offensive type of dictator. People of Argentina deserve far better government than he has given them. Strike at CMC A good many persons may have wondered why the . rash of strikes at General Motors plants after GMC conceded the same unem ployment guarantee that the UAW had won Vnr-A TWntnf Tn A ronortoH 750 000 workers were made idle by these unauthor ized strikes. An explanation may be found in the fact that while a few across-the-board Hems such as wages and the UAW got at tention, a wage contract contains many other rv!i.mrMi Alert tViara on differential tmnn various groups of workers. Some groups in Ford employment kicked because they felt they were not getting the right treatment. At one of the GM plants a production standards dispute induced the walkout. In brief, it is not enough to effect the overall wage settle ment which covers major issues, each' group and each individual is anxious to see that his own interests are protected, and they feel that the ,time to assert themselves is when a contract is in the making. ; The sporadic strikes were shortlived, but they emphasized certain points which presumably will have to be worked on by. management and labor .11 -s -.M. 2 a i 14 ti ci i mix uciuu ure uuucu uuu. Admiral Ben Moreell who is chairman of a task force of the Hoover commission which has been studying water resources and power says the federal government should get out of the power business, Maybe it "should, but it won't We doubt if the Hoover com mission itself goes that far, and Moreell said he was expressing his personal view and not speaking for .the task force which will report later this month. Thus far the second Hoover commission reports have been received in a void of silence by the administration. Careful Reform Declared All By JOSEPH ALSOP . WASHINGTON The cloud is still no bigger than a man's hand; but maybe Herbert Brownell, Scott McCleod, Lewis L. Strauss and a few other people had Better start thinking about what happened to the prophets of Baal when Eli jah's little cloud grew to be a blgnT one. fij The cloud inHV S question is the! L 1 unanimous re-1 St f port by the Sen- ," " , - at fnmmittPii JOepn i AleMI on Government Operations of a resolution calling, for the ap pointment of a high level com mission to review the entire federal security program. Senate Majority Leader Lyn don Johnson and House Speak-, er Sam Ray burn mean to pass the resolution through their re spective bodies. Rayburn and Johnson have a highly develop ed knack of getting what they want Hence the resolution has an excellent chance of becom ing law before the end of the session. . .- Meanwhile, the circumstan ces in which this resolution to investigate the Investigators was reported to the Senate are highly significant in them selves. In the novel style of the Lyndon Johnson democracy. It was co-sponsored by a Left Right team, Senators Hubert Humphrey f Minnesota and . John Stennis of Mississippi. It was then studied at pro longed hearings, in the course of which Attorney General Brownell exhibited a marked lack of enthusiasm for the pro posed inquiry into his own se curity practices. The Republi can members of the sub-committee studying the resolution. Senators N orris Cotton of New Hampshire, Thomas E. Martin of Iowa and Margaret Chase Orex,Tueday, June 21, 1955 Plywood Birthday Fifty years ago tory in the St. John district of Portland got the idea of putting out a novelty for the Lewis & Clark exposition in that city. They cut strips of board, applied glue between the sheets, pressed them together with house jackscrews. The finished product was then exhibited in" the forestry display at the expo sition. Out of that humble beginning has grown the vast plywood industry. Thin sheets of wood are glued together, now with waterproof resins, the inner sheet of the three ply sandwich at cross-grain with the other two, bonded under heat, and pressure to make the four by eight panels now in universal use in construction, cabinet work, boat building, and "do-it-yourself." Production this year in the 100 plants in the Pacific Northwest will reach an estimated 4.5 billion square feet. Right now the Douglas Fir Plywood asso ciation Is holding an anniversary celebration in Portland of the "invention" of plywood. The allied interests joining in the event are not spending too much time on past history. They are very busy planning ahead both for wider markets, for bigger production and for ways to provide material to meet the growing demand. Coming in later than plywood is what is called hardboard. Masonite was the first to develop a process for binding wood particles into tough, durable sheets. When the com pany's patents expired other firms got into production with some variance in techniques. Down in North Bend. Weyerhaeuser has started a particle board. This takes planer shavings and compresses" them into a hard board in 4x8 ft. panels. The principal us for it is expected to be for under-flooring, or core stock in furniture or backing for veneer. Utilizing materials that formerly went into the burner it will serve to "extend" the tim ber resource of the state. The forest industries seem to be living up to the slogan, "Hats off to the past; coats off for the future. Winner From Davenport It had to happen, of course. Ben Hogan couldn't go on winning the national Open golf championship forever. The doughty warrior who came back after a severe auto accident to win again and again on a com bination of skill and nerve, had to reach the end of his winning trail. But that a virtual unknown, Jack Fleck, a golf pro from Dav enport, Iowa, playing his first year in the round of tournaments should be the one to unseat the champion seemed quite incred ible. But the Iowan did it, setting up a tie with Hogan on Saturday and winning the playoff Sunday at the Olympic course, San Francisco. Hogan announced after his defeat that he was through with intense golf com petition. After all he has won all the honors in golf and won as well the esteem of golf ers and admirers of good sportsmanship. Editorial Comment THE YOUNG COLLEGE WIVES One of the most interesting of the farm-hour programs over KOAC was a tape-recording this writer listened to a few evenings ago. Three young women who had just earned the P.H.T. (put husband through) degree at Oregon State College were interviewed. In the background could be heard the happy" gurgling of a baby one of several in the three families. The three happy wives told of their husbands' obtaining posts as agriculture teachers in three good little Oregon high schools. None of them would admit having had a very hard time keep ing up their homes and young families while the husband went to college. On the contrary, all said they had greatly enjoyed the experience of being a college wife. They all were looking forward with keen anticipation to their new careers as faculty wives. The happy conclusions to be drawn from such situations as those of the three PHT's are too obvious to be labored here. It was happy, con fident young womanhood looking forward to in creased usefulness made possible by sacrifice oh, ohthe girls wouldn't admit it was sacrifice. The interview was a heartening bit of dialogue or would you say, tri-alogue? . Albany Democrat-Herald. of Federal Security Program - Important to Prevent Trouble Smith of Maine, were at first inclined to be suspicious of a measure that looked partisan. But in the end they enthusias - tically joined in presenting the resolution to the full Commit tee on Government Operations. The two senior Republican members of the Government Operations Committe are Sen ators Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin and Karl Mundt of t South Dakota. No one can sus pect either Mundt or McCarthy of any desire for reform in federal security procedures. Yet even McCarthy and Mundt did not record their hostility when the full committee reported the resolution to the Senate. The signs are clear, then, that there are increasing doubts about the federal secur ity program. The doubts are no longer confined to leftwing- ers, intellectuals and obstinate ly old-fashioned persons whe cannot quite approve the back door abrogation of the Bill of Rights. Grave concern is also beginning to be felt by' such good, horny-handed, orthodox, corn state Republicans as Sen ator Martin. This shift of opinion was bound to come, sooner or later. Essentially, the existing secur ity program embodies a nation al reaction to the case of Alger Hiss. It was a proper 'and nat ural reaction. But the result of the reaction, the security pro gram itself, is neither proper nor naturaL It effectively deprives mil lions of American citizens of the ancient protections of our Constitution. It has worked i horrifying injustices. It has bred among ui such novel phenomena as hired inform ers, officially encouraged poison-pen-letter writers and fed era! flatfeet who ask people whether their neighbors' gar bage includes an excessive al lowaace of battles. As present ly constituted and aamlils- owners of a small box fac tered, in fact, the federal se curity program must keep the founders of this Republic turn ing in their graves like so many teetotums. , The Oppenheimer case, the John Davies case and a few other episodes have already disturbed a great many people. But one can predict with confidence that this security program will eventually produce a sort of Hiss-case-in-reverse a demonstration of injus tices am malpractice so final and so dramatic that it will con vulse the entire country with strong indignation and generate an irresistible d e m a n d for re form. Any one familiar with the program can already detect the stench of such cases corning up, so to speak, through the floor boards. Whether the high level commis sion proposed by the Humphrey Stennis resolution will really do the Job, may perhaps be open to question. It ir to be composed of three groups of four members, chosen by the President, the vice president and the speaker. The Congressional appointees should be well balanced, but Attorney General Brownell, win wants n serious inquiry, has a chance to pack the commission through the presidential appointees. He wul make the same mistake if he does so, however, as Presi dent Truman made when Jie call ed the Hiss case a real herring. Already, the peculiarities of the security program are being some what fumblingly investigated by the Post Office and Civil Service committee oT the Senate; and a subcommittee of the Senate Judi ciary committee headed by Sen. Thomas Hennings of Missouri is, alsr starting more promising in-' vestigation. Sooner or later, the break will come and the storm of indignation will follow, unless the administration is wise enough to foretell trouble by preparing for careful reform. ; (Copyrifht IMS. How Torn , Harak Tribuaa. laej GRIN AND BEAR f yon wouldn't went a housa that was going up according to schodtdt, Mr. frodorasst . . . yd immodiaUfy mpeci something was wrong with HT sroasB8m (Continued from page L) both sides of the Deschutes Riv er at the Pelton site, and the bed of the river, and since "the project calls for no permanent diversion of water" the Court concluded that the license is sued by the FPC was valid. "To allow Oregon to veto such use, by requiring the State's addi tional permission, would result in the very duplication of reg ulatory control precluded by the FIRST IOWA decision." How ever in a footnote the opinion states with respect to approval by the Oregon Hydroelectric Commission: "While we hold that such ap proval is not necessary, there is no reason why the company should not thus seek state as well as federal approval of the jproject" With respect to the Desert Land Act of 1877 and previous similar acts which vested in the states authority to control use of waters on public lands the Court avoided any interpreta tion of these laws I "because these acts are not applicable to the reserved lands and waters here involved." In his dissent ing opinion Mr. Justice Douglas voices disagreement, and thinks these laws do apply and that state assent for use of waters of the Deschutes at Pelton site ! for power generation is re quired. The seven who made up the majority (Justice Harlan did not participate), however, gave the verdict of the Court. In brief this decision does not of itself in any part of the opinion invalidate state exercise of au- Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago June 21, 1945 Hugh E. Rosson, Portland at torney and World War I veter an, was appointed by Gov. Earl Snell to direct the state's new department of veterans' affairs. Born in Iowa, he attended Knox college and the University of Iowa and came to Oregon to teach at the University of Ore gon law school. W. A. (Bachelor Billy) Rahn, owner of the town of Millican, Ore., announced he had sold the village and was leaving. When the new owners, Mr. and Mrs. George -Petry, Bend, move in, the town's population will be doubled. Col. Willis E. Vincent of Sa lem was awarded the bronze star medal for meritorious serv ' ice in connection with military operations in Germany. 25 Years Ago June 21, 1930 Official France made its first move to protest against the new American tariff and its first of ficial threat of reprisal through the committee on customs of the chamber of deputies. Mr. and .Mrs. W. A. Cummings celebrated their silver wedding with a mock wedding at their home, renewing the vow plight ed at Shaw, Oregon, 25 years ago. The attendants and many of the guests were present at the wedding 25 years ago. Complete checking and re checking of the schedules for the second Oregon census showed Marion county 60,527; Polk 16,865; Yamhill 22,020; Tillamook 11, 805, and Salem ' city, 26,280. 40 Years Ago June 21. 1915 Martial law was invoked in Calexico, California, and in Mexican, Mexico, just across the border line, following a reign of terror in both towns result ing from three earthquake shocks. Falling walls killed 15 , people. Burgess F. Ford, graduate of Willamette University and for the last four years principal of tne lustacada schools, was elect ed principal of the academy of Willamette university. The State Board of Control awarded the plumbing and heating contract for the new wing of the Eastern Oregon State hospital to Joe Bernardi, Salem. Bernardi's bid was $9888. IT By Lichty thority over waters for reclama tion purposes. The Court also took up the objection raised in the state's case that the FPC abused its discretion in granting the license because of the injury that would result to fish runs by the con struction of a high dam. It con eluded that the plans submitted by the power company for fish propagation, which had been ap proved by the FPC were accept able. These plans, it will be re called, included provision of fa cilities for fish conservation and an annual contribution of $100, 000 toward their maintenance and operation. Whether Portland General Electric will proceed with this project seems to await congress ional action on its proposal for a partnership enterprise at the John Day site on the Columbia. Eventually a dam will be built at Pelton to capture the kilo watts that now race wastefully down the Deschutes, and that without impairment of state or vested water rights for con sumptive uses. A footnote might be added on protests that have arisen over the discovery that New York State is collecting "water rent al" on waters diverted from the Niagara -and St Lawrence rivers for industrial purposes. The fact came out at a House committee hearing on grant of rights for further power development at Niagara Falls, when the presi dent of a private power com pany said his company pays nearly $2 million water toll now and would pay $5 million if given the 'license for new de velopment Members of- Con gress protested the state charge, one calling it a "form of ban ditry." Here apparently Is a new wrinkle with regard to water rights and control. Oregon col lects an annual license fee from state-licensed hydro plants, but not a "water rental. Let us it is "7 V'f v,V - Chrysler owners know it and we'd like you to know it Chrysler it irinning performance honors, hands down! Come prove it to yourself by taking the "100-Mfllion-Doriar Ridef It's a driving thrill that no other ear can give you . . . with America's finest family of V-8 engines to choose from ... up to 300 hp; mightiest of all! Teamed, mind you, with Power Flite automatic no-dutch drive . . . which for honey-smooth take-off power leaves even second best' out of eight! Chrysler is a big caz. Low. long and atoek. It has fashion COME TAKE THE CTOYSLE SALEM AUTOMOBILE CO., INC. o Safety Valve (Editor's Not I Letter (er The Statesman's Safety Valve column are given prior consideration U they are informative and are not more than 30a words in length. Personal atucki ajid-ridieule, as well as lifeel, re to he avoided, but anyone is entitled to air beliefs and opinions on any tide of any question.) HENRY AT CAXOSSA To the Editor: I wish to correct an error in fact contained in your editorial "Church - State Conflict in Ar gentina" of June 17, 1953. It is true that Henry IV of Germany was excommunicated by Pope Gregory VII for making lay ap pointments to several bishoprics. It is true that Henry IV stood barefoot in the snow for three days begging absolution from Pope Gregory VII. But the most important truth of all was omit ted. As a careful perusal of history would verify; these are the facts: Henry IV willingly stood in the Tsnow for three days as a ruse to capture Gregory whe had fled to the castle to be with friends against the protest of his friends. Gregory left the castle to grant absolution to Henry and was im mediately captured. Henry IV was not doing penance: he was at the castle for one reason only to capture Gregory VII. JEANNE C. LEEK, 1605 Park Ave. Editor's Note: Henry, IVs ap peal for relief from th. interdict of Pope Gregory VII (Hilde brand, one of the greatest of the popes) was politically motivated he had lost support of German princes after his excommunica tion. Afterwards, again for po litical reasons "he resolved to break the oath he had just tak en, and shut Gregory so closely in the castle of Canossa as ef fectually to put a stop to his further progress to Augsburg." (Menzel's Germany, p. 451). However the event at Canossa in 1077, with an emperor standing outside the castle in the cold, in the posture of penitence, has rep resented the apex of the old con troversy between temporal and spiritual rulers, and the phrase "Henry at Canossa" its epito me. ENJOYS GARDEN To the Editor: I would like to sing a word of praise for our Salem Fire Boys and the lovely little garden they prepare and tend so nicely throughout the year for every one's enjoyment. I usually walk to town and always I go by to enjoy the seasonal flowers plant ed there. SALLY MARTIN, N. Capitol, Salem. te9 wlan'S-isssjgfssi J i show. you how easy to drive a fflBYSK!'' P" GOOD DRIVERS -ss, ..s.&jM T II ' 'aati .pott tks BxsT a TV satrs a cszax on 8Ammcans- Seen in Soviet Labor Camps WIENER NEWUSTADT, Austria GPl Austrian prisoners who re turned home-from Russia Monday said eight Americans are among Westerners in Soviet labor camps v.-ho have little hope of ever being freed. Most of the 184 newly released Austrians military prisoners and civilian internees were arrested by the Russians in Vienna and in villages of Austria's Soviet Zone after World War II. They were turned loose by the Russians after the Big Four's con clusion last month of the Austrian independence treaty. Some said their terms had been lengthened in 1953 because they took part in a hunger riot finally quelled by the guards' machine guns in a Siber ian coal mine. In Russia, they said, they shared cells with prisoners from the Unit ed . States. Britain, France, West Germany and Italy, among others, who are serving long terms with small expectations of getting out alive. They said one American, Charley Brown or Charley Brown-Clifford, died at Camp Verche Uralsk in 1952. He was described as a U. S. diplomat arrested in Romania in 1945. Germany has 641 youth hotels providing 6,000,000 reservations in 1955, an all-time record. iilJ:IMJJHJ B217JZI t CHICAGO 9 hru fJES7 YORK 10 i 2 flights dairy both North and South in the world's most advanced twin-engine airliner United's Convair Mainlines-. Alrpft leratiseL IN SAUM CAU 1-3455 er e oertoriaW - SaSJSenaaaa-. --Lg- T tflTilTlaWHs ' ' I " l l rill ii ll experts coining new terms to fit ft, like "tailored steeL"? Yet, thanks to countless exclusive drive-features (all Chrysl er originated) it handles as easy as a wave of your hand. There's FuU-tirm Power Steering, for one. 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