4 (Sac 1) Stataaman, Salam, Or., Tuesday, July 19, 1955
EAST MEETS WEST
No Favor Sways Vs. Xo Fear ShaU Awe"
' , From First Statesman. March '28. 1851
Statesman Publishing Company
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor & Publisher
Published every morning. Business office itO
Horth Church St, Salem. Ore. Telephone 4-S8U
Entered at the postoffiee at Salem. Or., as cond .
clata matter under act of Congress March 3. 119.
Member Associated Press
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lor republication of all local news printed in
this newspaper.
Red Light on 4New Starts"
Before taking off for Geneva, President
Eisenhower turned the red light on "new
itarls" included in the public works approp
riations bill passed by Congress. With ref
erence to some 107 projects not included in
bis own budget the President said:
"Initiation of the 'added projects cannot
be undertaken until the detailed .engineering
plans have been completed and we have a
sound basis for cost estimates"
Since the statement wasn't released until
Eisenhower was on his way no added infor
mation was given out as to the specific items
which might be held in suspense by execu
tive order. Included in the 107 projects are
several in the Northwest, and their sponsors
will be on the anxious seat until their fate
Is made known- "
Protest will be raised over the President's
action. However it has its precedents. Pres
ident Truman didn't go ahead with the con
gressionally approved. 70 group Air Force.
Also he held up starts on reclamation proj
ects At various times pleas have been made
for giving the President the power of item
veto in appropriation bills. Under the con
stitution he has authority to veto a bill as a
whole, but the constitution does not author
ize a veto of specific items in an appropria
tion bill. (In Oregon the Governor may veto
appropriation items, also the emergency
clause on legislation.) By using his authority
of control 'of spending the President may in
effect employ a veto power.
The action of the President will not make
him popular in spots where the money was
going to be expended; but he is warranted
in determining whether benefits (even under
the loose prognostications of government en
gineers) do justify the outlay of public funds.
Surplus of Feed Grains
In the editor's column which discussed the
last crop report attention was called to the
expansion in production of feed grains. This
is also discussed in the official News Letter
of the American Farm Bureau which pre
dicts that the diversion if acres from crops
under marketing quotas will result Jn "the ;
greatest feed supply in the history of the na-
lion." On the 22 million acres diverted from
wheat and nine million from cotton farmers
may plant what they want, and many of
them have turned to growing feed grains on
these acres. ,
Anticipating that trend, the Farm Bureau
urged Congress to give the Department of
Agriculture controls which would prevent
the glutting of supplies of other farm com
modities. The effect of this diversion of feed
grains is seen in this valley in the lower
prices of oats and barley.' The demand il
lustrates the trouble that arises from crop
controls. Once begun their extension comes
to be demanded because of the resulting im
balance. The wise course, in the opinion of
this newspaper, is to work away from all
crop controls and crop subsidies by progres
sive stages. Then year-to-year distortions
will be quickly adjusted by the normal con
trols of the marketplace,
Is There Going to Be Limit?
Unless you're color-blind, which might not
be a bad idea, it appears there's no end to
the multi-tone combinations now in evidence
or being prepared for everything from au
tomobiles, bathroom fixtures, fountain pens,
stoves, telephones, kitchens and boudoirs to
window-blinds, playrooms, men's hats, desk
tops, road signs, hair-dos and typewriters.
It used to be that about the only two-toning
a man dared sport was in his neckties
and socks. Any car with more than one color,
usually black, was a noisy advertisement for
a do-it-yourself kit. And if a kitchen didn't
look like a surgical ward, all was not well.
Now it's almost got so that if the proverb
ial silver spoon in a baby's mouth isn't actu
ally blue or pink as sex may determine,
something's -wrong there, too. Not that we're
objecting to the color craze, even though
some of the combinations lend authenticity
to the old phrase about knocking one's eyes
out. But -what's the male populace going to
do with its plain blue business suits when
the time comes no one would be caught dead
in one without pink lapels, plaid pockets,
apple-green buttons and chartreuse sleeves?
' jj
Russian Use of U.S.-France
Division Feared by Officials
Time Flies:
From Tht
Statesman Files
Jockeying for '56
In Washington Monday the House whooped
through a bill raising social security bene
fits and taxes by a vote of 372 to 31. Very
few wanted to be recorded as voting against
dispensing more money for more people. The
Democrats took the lead in pushing the
measure through the ways and means com
mittee. Seven of the -ten GOP members
didn't approve of the bill but admitted its
"undoubted political attractiveness." Some
Republicans declared it was "rammed down
our throats for political purposes." Since
. there, is no sign the Senate will act on the
bill at this session its coloration is very clear
! ly political. Its sponsors are looking to the
elections of '56 "when they hope to cash, in
on their vote for more government bounties.
The bill makes the age when women may
receive social security benefits 62 instead of
65. It also lowers to age 50 the date when
imviiif1! i ill si i v .4 1 1 1 s-f i in av wi u n i rm cnri a i
security tax would go up by one per cent
on January 1st next, when the benefits also
would begin. This would be divided between
employer and employe but would amount to
about $21 a year for the two.
Talk about "creeping socialism." This is
tme form of it which doesn't disturb the Democrats.
Chinook Wind in Washington
An unseasonal chinook wind must have
been blowing in Washington last week. While
winter clamped its icy fingers around uniden
tified "new starts," the winds of White House
favor blew to thaw the budget bureau into
recommending an expenditure of two mil
lion dollars for a transmission line to a pro
posed aluminum -plant at The Dalles. This
plant was" projected by the Harvey inter
ests a few years ago, but their zeal seemed
to wane; also Congress itself never put up
the money for a transmission line to serve
the plant. (Sen. Cordon protested it on the
grounds the energy could better be used oth
erwise). Now aluminum is getting in short
supply again, so a sudden weather change is
noted in Washington. It remains to be seen
whether Congress will put up the money. If
it does some other company may go ahead
with a plant at The Dalles if Harvey doesn't.
Headline of last week: "Mrs. Hobby Quits
Post for 'Hubby "Labor's Daily.
Folk over at Jefferson are working to
raise funds to help finance transfer of the
Brownsville Woolen Mills to their town. That
was the way most of the early woolen mills
were started in Oregon. The first one at
Salem, which prompted the. building of the
Mill creek canal from the Santiam for pow
er, was a local promotion. After it burned
and the town was without a woolen mill,
citizens raised a fund to encourage Thomas
Kay to establish a woolen mill here, which
is still in operation. We hope the Jefferson
people succeed, and their venture as well.
10 Years Ago
July 19, 1945
The Navy was planning a
"floating ice cream parlor" in
the western Pacific. Built at a
cost of more than $1,000,000, it
would be capable of manufac
turing 10 gallons of ice cream
every seven minutes.
A pair of trophies won by the
Salem YMCA high school boys'
team division and geueral team
championship competition dur
ing a meet in Portland under
Park Bureau and Active club
sponsorship, arrived and was
on display at the "Y."
Mrs. James R. Humphreys re
ceived word from her sisters,
Mrs. Myron H. Soupene of
Galesburg, I1L, and Mrs. Thom
as G. Harvey of Indianapolis.
Ind., were arriving to be guest
of she and another sister Mrs.
' Charles Clarke. This was the
first time in 15 years the four
sisters had been together.
25 Years Ago
July 19, 1930
The Ashley Cook concert
band of Portland was engaged
with 2500 relatives and friends
of employes of the Western
Electric company for an excur
sion across Lake Michigan. The
ship rolled on its side in 25
feet of water.
A hack driven by C. A. Barr,
of Route 3, was damaged when
it was struck by an automobile
driven by an employe of the
State Industrial School for
Girls. The accident occurred at
the corner of State and Com
mercial Streets.
Loss of Twine
Center of Suit
Against Firm
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GENEVA (7PV American officials were fearful here that Rus
sians might seize on slight differences between the U.S. and France
as an opening for a disarmament system which the West would
have to live up to and Russu would not
The fear rose after it became clear that while President Eisen
hower and French Premier Faure were in complete accord on the
principle they were clearly an-'
coordinated on "details."
They also were reported to be
lieve that the French leader, in
striking out for a bold initiative.
might play into Russia s hands
with the call for a European se
curity .system.
Apparently Secretary of State
Dulles and Eisenhower were wor
ried enough about the Faure sug
gestions to order steps to disas
sociate the United States from
them.
A delegation member, who de
clined use of his name but spoke
with obvious authority, told report
ers the speeches by Eisenhower,
Faure and Prime Minister Eden
had not been fully concerted.
He said the three went over their
ideas in general at lunch Sunday
but it was understood that any "de
tails" would be used merely ta il
lustrate' the principles which were
to be set forth. Therefore, no one
would be committed to specific pro
posals like those Faure made.
This was the first time that this
kind of an understanding had been
disclosed. Other informants, for
weeks, had stressed the formation
of a solid allied front at Geneva
Policymakers in foreign offices at
Paris and London and the State
Department at Washington, had
sweated to that end.
How the break came about was
not quite clear. It was learned
that some members of Faure's own
delegation here question the wis
dom of the disputed proposals.
Diplomats . speculated that Eis
enhower, Faure and Eden or their
foreign ministers might meet right
away to try to reconcile different
es or clarify their positions.
Tl - - . . , 1
ii appeared eiiorcs wouia De
made to control the situation and
prevent Premier Bulganin and his
Soviet colleagues from trying to
exploit a Western discord.
J. Spranger
Dies; Autopsy
To Fix Cause
John Louis Spranger, 83, con
fined to a hospital since June 28
when he was struck by a car on
a Salem street, died Saturday.
He had lived at 2373 State St
Reports from an autopsy are
expected to reveal whether the
mans death resulted directly
from the accident injuries.
Spranger had resided In the
Salem area for more than 20
years, having come here in 1934
from the Bethel district, where
he had lived since 1919. He was
born at Rhine, Wis., in 1871 and
married Minnie Daniel in 1894.
She died in Salem in 1941.
He was long a member of the
Bethany Evangelical and Reform
ed Church.
Surviving are daughters, Mrs.
Amanda Greeson, Kokomo, Ind.,
and Mrs. Minnie Sykes, Seattle;
a son, Arno C Spranger, Salem;
seven grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held
at the W. T. Rigdon Chapel Wed.
nasday at 1:30 p.m. Rev. A. H.
Sauerwein will officiate and in
terment will be at City View
Cemetery.
About 19,000 pounds of twine aH ItIn -an a 11 Al
legedly destroyed by a fire while lTXdlXllO Ullll .
being transported from baiem to I
Stayton figured in an 111,346 dam- I ncnPPTPri IW
age suit filed in Marion County AUSJJtjyiCLa. U J
Circuit Court Monday. r-j-j V1P
The suit was brought against the I 47fl 1 1 1 TIP PI'S
Cascade Transfer and Storage A
Company, owned by Wallace H.
Bonesteele Jr.. by Clifford W,
Brown who arranged to have the
twine taken to Stayton.
Shuford Mills, Inc., owned the
twine at the time but their inter
ests in the case have been assign
ed to Brown, the complaint states.
The fire occurred in April this
year.
of a reclamation development
Then it was the residue left
when the plant at Muscle
Shoals on the Tennessee
stopped making materials for
World War I. In the 1930s it
Chances Good President May Make Bold,
Honest, New Start Toward World Peace
By JOSEPH ALSOP
WASHINGTON If all goes
well, history will probably re
cord the summit meeting at Ge
neva as the moment when Presi
dent Eisenhower first strongly
.asserted his per-
in foreign poliey-
i makine. The Ques
ts 'Miration is, simply,
l. J whether the
I ' President will fol-
I k jZC"! kw his own crea-
fi j' iuve inclinations
I 1 fc7 lor will stick to
II Jy I the official ad-.
, . "" '" ministration line.
" Jottt-pii Mop
Until the very moment when
the American delegation left for
Geneva, the official approach to
the summit meeting" continued to
be extremely negative at
least every level below the White
House level. Immense numbers
of "position papers" were la
boriously prepared. But essen
tially, Che aim was to prevent
anything awful happening at the'
summit, rather than to make
something good happen there.
Most of the position papers took
the form: "If the Soviets make
move A concerning Germany,
then we must make move B to
secure a checkmate." Further
more the decision was taken to
try to avoid talking about one
of the two vast problems that
are the real keys to any true in
ternational settlement, and to
avoid taking any solid American
position whatever on the other.
Ob any honest assessment, all
European and all economic ques
tions pale late perfect iaslcnifi
eanee when compared with the
aaestioa 1b the Far East and the
'ones tion ef disarmament. The
Far East to the place where to
teraaUoaal Communism Is the
march today, and there can be
n. real world settlement anta it
i. v.... where this ward
march will be flaallyhalte. Dis
until the world knows what to to
be done about the H-bomb.
Yet the aim of Secretary of ,
State John Foster Dulles and the
other official policy makers is
not to discuss the Far Eastern
question at Geneva if it is pos
sible to dodge doing so. In the
preparatory .meetings, the Bri
tish and French were requested,
to do their best to keep the topic
of the Far East out of the Ge
neva talks.
By the same token, for weeks
before the President's departure
for Geneva, the Administration
was riven by a first-class row
about the right approach to the
disarmament question. The Pen
tagon (which means the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, for Secretary of
Defense Charles E. Wilson has
not interested himself in the mat
ter) is nadytagly opposed to a
serious disarmament effort. The
disarmament talks that have
taken place to date have aroused
no Pentagon opposition because
they were thought to be meaning
less. But the Pentagon is up in
arms now, because serious dis
armament talks seem to be a
possibility.
On the other side of the battle,
Harold Stassen, whom the Presi
dent has charged with personal
responsibility as the American
disarmament policy maker,
fought long, hard and obstinate
ly for permission to take his dis
armament plan to Geneva as the
American government's plan. It
is a bold plan, although it is per
haps not sufficiently worked out
in detail. At any rate, the State
Department took the stand that
Stassen's homework was not fin
ished, and this tilted the balance
against Stassen. -
As a result, a British disarma
ment plan Is betag taken to Ge
neva and s to a Soviet plan; bat
no American plaa to being takea
there. It to even, doubtful whetfc-
official observer," with the ones- ,
tion still open whether Paris
would or Would not be his final
stopping place.
AH sorts of indications have
been seeping out of the White
House, however, that this ex
tremely negative approach by no
means suits President Eisen
hower's current mood. It is
clear, in fact, that the President
would like to talk turkey with the
Soviets if the Soviet leaders show
the slightest sign of wanting to
talk turkey with him.
So far, the Soviets have shown
all sorts of signs of wanting to '
talk turkey with Elsenhower. The
inclusion of his friend. Marshal
Zhukov, in their delegation is
' only one of these signs. Continu
al hints have beea dropped in
Moscow, in fact, about the ex
treme desirability of informal,
man-to-man and private contact
between the President and the
Soviet chiefs.
Meanwhile, the President's in
clination to try to do business
with the Russians has also been
considerably strengthened by the
report of .Charles E. Bohlen.'
Bohlen has stated that the Rus
sians really do want some sort
of settlement or relaxation of
tensions, not so much because of
crippling inner weaknesses in
the Russian system, but because
the Soviet leaders have also
looked down the dark perspec
tive opened by the H-bomb, and
have been terrified by what they
saw there.
Altogether the chances are
pretty good that the pettifogging
position papers will be torn np;
that the negative approach will
be abandoned; and that the
President will make a bold, hon
est, and creative effort te find
the beginning of a basis for
agreement. If the President al
lows himself to be himself la
this manner, the summit meeting
will indeed become a great oc-
bv the State. Fair Board to fur- came in under the guise ' of
nish music during the state lair
late in Sepember this year.
Souhwestern Italy had count
ed its dead to the number of 679
in half a score of towns tum
bled to ruins by a series of ter
rific earthquakes. It was the
worst catasprophe since 1908.
'Deposits in all banks in Ore
gon at the close of business
June 30. 1930, were $290,541,
621.85, or an increase of $11,
462071.49 since March, accord
ing to a report prepared by A.
A. Schramm, state superintend
ent of banks.
40 Years Ago
July 19, 1915
- Salem loganberry juice was
served to a party of fifteen high
officials of the Elks lodge who
passed through Salem. The
drink was presented by Herbert
Stiff and W. E. Slater with the
compliments of the local lodge.
More than 1000 persons,
flood control and aid to naviga
tion. Later defense needs were
used to justify new projects. At
no time has Congress adopted a
policy of engaging in power
generation and distribution in
and for itself.
The Dixon-Yates deal was
badly messed up in its handling
by the administration. It was,
however, one attempt on the
part of the government to off
set the demands of the AEC on
TVA by providing from a pri
vately owned plant a supple
mental source of power. Mem
phis now will do that for itself.
The question will continue to
press; in regions where the fed
eral government got into the
power business, of whether it
will continue to be a primary
producer either of hydro ener
gy or of power from fossil fuels
Farmer Hurt, v
Son Killed
By Electricity
MILTON-FREE WATER ()
Eddie A. Knopf, a farmer in the
Ferndale district near here, is in
serious condition at a Walla Walla,'
Wash., hospital from burns re
ceived Monday in an accident
which killed his son, Arnold, 20.
The two men were moving irri
gation pipe when the elder Knopf's
pipe struck a powerline. Arnold
was killed attempting to save his
father.
The older man is expected to
recover.
Two officers from the 12th Ma
rine Corps Reserve and Recruit
ment district arrived here Monday
to inspect the Salem reserve train
ing center and program and to as
sist in recruiting additional re
servists. The officers. Maj. Myron Lees,
procurement officer, and 1st Lt. E.
B. Grigsby, training program, in
spected the center's drill Monday
night .
After Inspecting the 3rd 155 mm
gun battery, they will leave Wed
nesday for Seattle, Wash.
The Salem unit now has 68 en
listed men and six officers. It can
carry up to 121 reservists, accord
ing to Capt. Thomas A. McPheet
ers. a member of the reserve staff
stationed here.
Headon Crash
Injures Three
South of Qty
Three persons suffered apparent
ly minor injuries Monday in a
headon collision of two cars at the
junction of Liberty Road and Tri
angle Drive, state police said.
Officers said Adelaide Kinney, 72,
of 3344 Neef Ave., was "taken by
Willamette ambulance to Salem
Memorial Hospital with a wrist
fracture. City first aidmen treated
Linda Sunderland, 11, of Salem
Route 4, Box 330, for a chin lace
rati.i and Dorothy Green, 3, of
the same address, who lost sever
al teeth.
Officer Walter Karau said the
injured woman was a passenger in
a vehicle driven by Jean L. Ben
nett, 3550 Neef Ave' Driver of the
car in which the children were
riding was listed as Hattie B. Sun
derland, mother of the one. Karau
said the accident happened about
1 p.m. when the Bennett car was
starting to make a turn. Both cars
received considerable damage.
RANCHER PICKED
PENDLETON un A Helix
rancher was chosen Monday as
Umatilla County's outstanding
grassmaa. He is Fred Hill, 43.
The Pendleton Kiwanis Club spon
sored the contest.
Final Rites Slated
For Traffic Victim
Statesman News Service
SILVERTON Funeral
serv
Sudden Stop Blamed
For Boys' Broken Arm
Michael Onstott. 5, of 915 Elec
tric Ave., suffered an arm fracture
Monday when his mother was
ices will be held Wednesday forlforced to aPP,v e brakes of her
James Edgar Beesley, 19, Silver-
ton, who was killed in a Saturday
traffic accident in Nebraska. The
services will be at Silverton Meth
odist Church at 2:30 p.m., with in
terment in Silverton Cemetery.
CHURCH SESSION SET
PORTLAND Ml The Oregon
State Conference of Town and
Country Churches will hold its an
nual meeting Oct. 24 at Corvallis.
car suddenly in downtown traffic,
first aidmen reported.
Aidmen said the sudden stop in
the 200 block of N. Commercial
Street apparently threw the young
ster against the dash board. The
boy was taken to Salem General
Hospital after the 4:30 p.m. mis
hap and later released.
Korean Vet of Salem, Widow
Of Another Due Pay of POWs
or from atomic lission. Mem-jU'ar
A Salem veteran of the Korean ! prisoner of war. How long he was
phis didn't answer
tion.
that ques-
VOTE FOR HOSPITAL
BANDON UD A proposed new
most of them women and chil- hospital at Bandon has won the
dren, were drowned within a approval of voters. Southern Coos
few feet of land by the capsu- VQters a ved creation
ing of the steel steamer East- . " .
land, as it was about to leave new hospital district by a vote
its wharf in the Chicago river of 467-147 Saturday.
GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty
er Stassen himself will be per-
rmnmeat above all demands de- mitted to play a Geneva role. Ta , CMi0, whatever its final result
i lil about we noM w- m mm - may ne.
lllTr l there can be ao end toel.ded in the official delega- (Coorrirht liS
nsBBssMss"saBnsBnnnsss,B" - " .
and the widow of another
have money waiting for them in
Washington, D.C., for time spent
in prisoner-of-war camps, the As
sociated Press reported Monday.
The two Salem persons are
among seven from Oregon eligible
to make application, to the Fed
eral dams betuement commission.
Ernest A. Weitman, 4810 Idaho
St.. who served with the Army in
Korea, s listed among those who
have not yet made a . claim.
though eligible. Another is Mrs.
Gladys M. Olvis. 1285 S. Liberty
St., widow of Capt. Leonard K.
Olvis, who reportedly died in a
North Korean prisoner compound.
Weitman could not be contacted
Monday night but a brother said
he had been notified by the com
mission and would make imme
diate application. Weitman once
was listed as missing in .action,
turned up shortly and later was a
a prisoner was not known by the'
brother. :
.ui j. vtvia icu vu a u lp u New
foundland in June but a Salem
relative said she had received a
form from the commission and
probably would turn in a claim
upon her return. Capt. Olvis, ac
cording to his mother, Mrs.
Charles Olvis, 1285 S. Liberty St.,
was a prisoner in North Korea
from about November 1950 to
early 1954 when word of his death
was received.
Payment of $2.50 for each day
of imprisonment was authorized
by Congress last year.' This in
cludes SI for inadequate food ra
tions and $1.50 for cruel una in
human treatment. The law pro
vides that if the veteran is dead.
his widow or children may file
claim to the money.
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