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4-Sec. I)-Sttenin. Sslem, Ore., Wed, Dec. 21, '55 cjtr j)ttflone0tatesiaatt , "A1 Favor Sway Ui. Ko Fear SJmII Au t' Frana flrat Statesman. Mirth tt, 1951 I Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor bt Publish Published every irornlnf. Bustneas afflca 10 North Church ., alm, Oi. TrUphona Iniara at dm aeateffies at torn, On., m nml , '" tnafar uhQT art at Coiw a Mirth , IliS. Mesas Associated Press Th AaaaaSata frM It entitle itruMvcIf te tha ase lor rtruUMUM at au local ni anataa u thM liaarapapwr. ; "Conflict of Interest" - With Congressmen : Senator Neuberger Is having thrown up in hii face tht old proverbs: "Chickeni com home to roost," and "Peopla who live in glass houses." It all comet out over hla inter vention in behalf of applicant! from th '! Roseburg area for a timber tale of aummit timber at Windigo Pass. Th aale of forest aervice timber is strongly opposed by Bend interests who fear that the contemplated new mill at Crescent then wouldTe a com ' petitor for government-owned Fanderosa pine timber which Bend folk think is needed . to maintain operation! of the Bend mills. 4 Alva Goodrich, Bend attorney, accused Neu '. berger of "intellectual dishonesty" and as ! certed that two of the Roseburg applicants ! had been his campaign supporters.. Neu ; berger'i wrath was stirred and he rejoined that another of the applicants had opposed his candidacy and that sales if made yiuld b on competitive bids. In aftermath tht Oregonian and other papers chided him be cause he had been sharply critical of Rep. Ellsworth for intervening with the Interior Department in behalf of the claimants for Al Serena mining patents. The subject has been fully hashed and rehashed and we do not intend to pour fuel on the fire of controversy. What we want to observe it that citizens are too prone to put pressures on senators and congressmen to make them their business agents on deals with the government. The public officials, eager to show their diligence in serving con stituents, are prone to go out of their way to serve the private interests of these con stituents. There is nothing wrong in advis ing constituents of their rights and pointing out the procedures which they should fol low, or even in requesting administrative . .. sawdust Forced" Listening GRIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty The McMinnville News-Register draws from the congressional inquiry into General Motors thst "bigness" in business remains a prim target, and goes on to say: General Motors President Harlow Curtice was forced to sit for a coupla of hours While angry dealers blasted his firm's manufacture ing policies at a Senate Judiciary subcom mittee. It is true that Senator O'Mahoney did not permit President Curtice to testify until dealer testimony was admitted. But instead of being resentful of the fact, Curtice should have been grateful. It is healthy for a busi ness to have the top level hear the gripes of those down in the chain of command. In fact to obtain "grass roots" sentiment big orgsni tatlons often finance independent surveys. Already GMC has moved to modify terms of its dealer contracts, so the forced listening may havt done some good. The church affiliation of Adlai Stevenson is hard to figure out. Long a member of the Unitarian Church at Bloomington he hss been admitted as a Presbyterian Church member at Lake Forest, with the under standing he can retain his Unitarian mem bership at Bloomington. We assume this Is a case of the exercise of tolerance both by ... Angels, stop tearing off each othrr's wings! . . . Elves, stop Stevenson and by the churches concerned, pulling your beards off! . . . Father Christmas, stop sucking Even so, it takes quite a stretching of creed y0Ur thumb! , . for one to be a Unitarian in one city snd a Trinitarian in another. A man's religion is M""" a matter of his personal belief and con science. A critic may cite this as an example of Stevenson's inability to make up his mind A more accurate explanation though is that this is a sample of his '"moderation," and of the churches'. Oregon Farm Chiefs Weigh Soil Project CORVALLI8 W - Oregon'farm leaders said Tuesday that the pro posed soil bank program should m draws tra a thst It does not become a burden on any one group of commodities. They also said there should be effective controls or high enough ' nBVm.nta in mall. lm Arnffr.-inl work. The 38 leaders met here, at the call of tha Oreeon Cattlemen's Assn. to discuss tht proposal, ex pected to be advanced by t h e administration at th next sessio of Congress. i Harley Libby. Jefferson, presi dent of the Oregon Farmers Union, said any new plan for solving the farm surplus problem must not "lose sight of conservation." j,.,ia i.iiviuic, state uiaiiv I ... ., , . master, wondered whether the JMibility of s strike of 400 con Wound Needs 58 Stitches KLAMATH FALLS W - Fifty eight stitches were required to close the cuts on Roland Lalo, 59, Chiloquin. found unconscious Mon day night at the Pat Jackson Ranch at Chiloquin Junction. At that sams rsnch there have been two slayings in th past two years. Alvie Youngblood, sheriff's dep uty, found Lalo. and brought him to a hospital here. Sheriff Murray Britton said Lalo apparently had been gashed by broken bottles. He said two young women are -sought for questioning. Filbert Growers Fete $25,000 Winner PORTLAND tffl - Mrs. Henry Jorgensen of Portland was fetid at a dinner Tuesday night by ap preciative filbert growers. Her recipe for a filbert-filled roll won $23,000 in the Plllsbury contest last week. Henry Sallee, president of the Nut Society of Oregon and Wash ington, aaid that besides tha din ner she will be kept supplied with filberts the rest of her life Union Pacific Strike Looms POCATELI.O. Idaho I The FILL THAT LOCKER! It.f, Grain FsJ..lb. 16j Locker Park lb. 19$ SALEM MEAT (0. plan would not "just end up being a political football." He said as tha plan tentatively is drawn up, it tends to give an advantage to Midwest farmers. James Short. Salem, state direc tor of agriculture, said he sensed that tha administration would rec ommend that diverted acres he turned Into grassland. He said Oregon should protect against that development, lest it unbalance farm income. He said one-third of farm incoma in the state now comes from livestock. Even United Nations had to compromise and split tenure of an office. Caught in a deadlock over election of a member of the Security Council the U.N. Assembly finally accepted the proposal of its President, Jos Maza, and split the two-year term between the rival candidates, Yugoslavia and the Philippines. The former won in the drawing but it will resign its seat atfer the first year and the Philippine delegate will serve the second year. Germany, Korea. Berlin and now United Nations yield to division under grim necessity. Those who remember the days trail revivals will recall officials to give a hearing to constituents. To attempt to apply pressure themselves or to seek 'private advantage against the public interest is reprehensible. Members of the Congress have been quick to denounce conflict of interest on th part of those holding administrative office. They have been less diligent in exposing similar conflicts among their own members. It is quite as possible to trade political influence for campaign contributions or for group sup port s it is to solicit or accept favors for a consideration. It is quite in order for mem bers of Congress to adopt some code of ethics covering their service to constituents, Which" would fix limits of propriety in such aervice. Politics being what it is, and mem bers of the Congress being what they are, and private citizens being what THEY are w do not anticipate much change in th old custom of equating public service with private aervice to constituents (including business, farm, labor groups, communities). It is cafe to anticipate, however, that members of the Oregon delegation will be rather cautious in taking; up for personal promotion appeals from Oregon resident! eeking favors in Washington. Oregon citltens should not put our senators and representatives to any embarrassment ever their conflicts with Washington bureaus. of the Homer Rodeheaver, song leader and trombonist, who long teamed with Evangelist Billy Sunday. Billy Sunday claimed converts by the thous anda, but it was Rodeheaver and his leader ship with music who put the tabernacle Crowds in th right emotional mood to re spond to Sunday's message. His death at age 75 revives memories of an era in the country's religious life. Charles O. Porter of Eugene has an nounced his -candidacy for Congres on the Democratic ticket. Al Ullman of Baker has done the same for Ihe second district. Both ran in 1954 against incumbents Reps. Ells worth and Coon. They could make this a cheap campaign merely by replaying the platters of their 1954 speeches. The topics are apt to be the same: Al Serena mining claims in Western Oregon, Hells Canyon Dam in Eastern Oregon. Doctors' orders of a slowdown for Eisen hower and an after-Christmas vacation in the sunny South do not add up to candidacy for a second term. Republicans ought to start from that patent observation in planning for 1956. An outsider who had not attended a meet ing of tha Oregon Wheat Growers Lesgue in . recent years would hsve been impressed, we believe, by the overwhelming number of young men in sttendsnct st last week's meeting. We saw very little gray hair, weather beaten faces or gnarled hands. Pendleton East Oregonian Does the E. O. imply that endorsing those big wheat checks raises no blisters? Salem fir department has found what it believes to be the most publicly spirited woman in town. Seems the department is up to its hook and ladder in a drive to keep fires down below last year. Part of this aritl-conflaaraUon activitv includes main. . ' talning a 'large bulletin board outside the dowtnown station. It informs the public how many calls the department has an swered to date this year compared with last year. Anyway, this lady called the de partment the other day, congratulated the fire laddies on the fine job they are doing, said she appreciated the campaign, apolo gized for bothering them and THEN in formed them she had a small fire at her house and could they help her! . . . "If all ritisens were as conscientious as this woman," said Fire Chief Ellsworth Smith, "our troubles would be small ones. But we still want people to rail us promptly la rase af fire first and explain later. The purpose af our bulle tin beard is to make the public more anti-fire conscious. As f todsy (Taetdsy) we stand exactly even with last year at this time 411 rails. We hope ta it better ever the Christmas weekend though. Last yesr we snswered II calls on Dec. 24 U2i',,, I Those people running around town with blank stares and foam-flecked lips Tuesday were not frustrated Christ mas shoppers. They were lip-readera who were driven nuts Monday night trying to decipher those Italian movies the TV stations threw in when the cable break cut off the net work programs . . . On thing sbout thst break it showed how helpless local atations are when thrown on their own. One of them think it was KPTV didn't even seem to have an announcer who could ad-lib. He ssld something like: j "Sorry we can't bring you th usually originally scheduled programs . . ." One thing about those Italian movies, though; nearly all the actors have British accents . . The following letter is NOT a paid ad by Don (Coin) Barter . . . "Dear Sir: I'm a type of person who loves t go hunting and fishing, bat I'm too green te be very good at it. Lately I've been reading Don Harger's "Coin After 'Em." I enjoy it so mica, I had to write to tell yon abeot It I think all sportsmen could leara a let from him. Yours for better sports; Jean Walker, Jr, Salem." . . . This should take care of Don's Christmas sock . . . Woodworkers, Firm Agree PORTLAND OB - CIO Wood workers Tuesday announced a new agreement with the Weyer haeuser Timber Co., for what the union aaid was a 22-cent hourly Increase. The union estimated cents' of the Increase was in wages, the rest in fringe benefits, includini a company-paid pension plan. The agreement covers 7.000 men in Oregon and Washington Weyer haeuser mills. The company put no cash value on the fringe benefits, but offered 1 these things: a 4U per cent pay Increase tor all employes; a company-paid pension plan to become effective June, 1. 1957; a reduction of 300 hours in ths requirement for vacations; an improved holiday clause: an expiration date of June 1, 19.NI, with wage reopening June 1, 157. fductors and brakemen on the north west and central divisions of the Union Pacific Railroad loomed Tuesday. H. W. Corbett, general chairman i of the Order of Railway Conduc tors, reported his men had voted overwhelmingly to walk out over time claims and discipline griev ances which he said had been no i cumulating over an U-month pe riod. Pocatello is the headquarters of the northwest and central di visions. If last-ditch settlement attempts fail. Corhctf said the union would throw up pickets at every impor tant point where men go on and off duty between Portland. Ore., Green River. Wyo., Salt Lake City and Butte, Mont. Qrfj&on$gfatt$si&8 neat 4-toil Subscription ftstes By eirrttr ta cltiesi Daily ana ua4f S 1 l par ma. Dally only UJ par ma, Sunday oly - . ,l wtk By !!. Suniay aajyi . (In advance) Aarwbtrs la U a I M ar ma, 1 71 tlx ma I M vau B maJl. Rally an SanSayi -lla advaneoi la Oraion . t 1 is Pt ma. I SO tlx ma 10 W yaar la O. outside Or cob ... I Ms par ma. Mam ar Aodll Burn a al circalaMff Buaaa af ASrarCHtnt AMP, Orataa fttttrf aaatf PakUabara AaaaelatUa Advaratalas BaaraatnuataSI Ward-Ortrnth ca., Waat BaUlday Ca Na terk Cblease Saa fTmaetara Oaf art Estate Sale 40-Acre Farm, Locattd East Near Saltm Make Your Offtr to Pionttr Trust Co., or S Your Broktr Phone 3-3136 New Bomb Threat Closes School TIGARD - A bomb threat apparently another hoax closed the Tigard High School Tuesday. Police searched the building with- out finding a bomb. The same thing happened at ' Koscburg Monday, the latest In what has been a long series of nich hoaxes, which started after the Meier and Frank department store in Portland was bombed last April. New Trial Sought For Sherry Fong The herald angels surely will not try to sing over Judea's plains this Christmas time. They might get shot. Salem post office is up to its annu assisting Santa Claus. Letters scrawled to Santa and sent to the post office are turned over to a local branch of Santa's Helper, Inc. the Salem Elka Club for action where needed. And' this Christmas will live long in the memories of mail carriers as a real soggy one. wsiermaraea posimeu agree this has been one of the splaahleit of Noels. As they deliv ered a record load of local mall Tuesday it was a tossup as to which was the dampest their brows or their feet . . . PORTLAND Ml A new trial was asked Tuesday for Sherry al vuletide tricks of Fm'- recently convicted of anuiiu-uegrce muruer in me oeam of Diane Hank. A defense motion said evidence was not sufficient for the convic tion, and that she failed to get a fair and impartial trial. BARRICK'S HAVE . SENSIBLE PRICES -PLUS- Off-Strtt Parking - Control Location . Our Last 1,000 Funerals Undtr $250 . . . $251-$350 . . $351-$500 . . $5014650 . . $651-Over 138 276 468 99 19 I ClOUGH 1 I M4 WWtWfT,. Church at Ferry Streets fUNERAL Ml Phon 3-913 Al Serena Mining Claim Investigation by Congress Scheduled to Commence Jan. 11 Jjpp0 FlieS From Th Statesman Files A. BaWrt Saallh By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Corraapaaaeat WASHINGTON Th Al Serena mining claim investigation by Con gress has tentatively been sched uled to open here Jan. 1L with officials from the Eisenhower ad ministration being called to ex plain the decision under which IS disputed clsims in Rogue River National Forest were patented to an Alabama firm last year. The investigation, which was touched unnn briefly during f Bearings held . In Oregon last month by a joint Sen ate H u s e o m m ittee, has scheduled to run through four days of hearings Jan. 11, 12, 17 and II. The case involves aft application , for patent to'23'mining clalma in Jackson County located in Rogu River forest by Al Serena Mines, Inc., of Mobile, Ala. The Forest Service contested is of the claims, but had no objection to th ether tight The Bureai of Land Manage ment, which decides o patent cases oa public lands, held bear ' lngs.and determined that the IS disputed claims did not qualify for patent due to insufficient show ing of mineralization. This 1951 ruling by BLM was later appealed by the company to Secretary of . Interior Oscar Chapman, who failed to act on the appeal before leaving office in January, 1933. The appeal was arted npea by Us saceeaaer. Secretary al I aler ter Dengtaa McKay, who granted patent ( the eacnaaay aa the 11 clalaa m the ssrlet ef CUr. j coca Paris. rh la aw anace ,fer?ary hmt wea the aeUdtar The esse has sine been tlx subject of charge and counter, charge between critics and sup porters of the Elsenhower admin istration. The Senate Interior Committee began looking into the case last spring at the request of Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.). The forthcoming hearings are aa outgrowth of that staff investigation. In announcing here the sched Bled hearings, Sen. W. Kerr Scott (D-N.C), , acting chairman of a 8 a a t interior subcommittee, noted that thus far the owners of th mining company have not be gua any commercial mining van' fairs on th Al Senera tract. "On the other kaaat, hewever, abeat $ias,M worth of timber haa mlrmdw ki l.i fra. tk dim I pate claims." said aaU. "Aa Bolter Unplfoh By D. C WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence?. "I'll now listen to whom ever is ready to preseri me with their data." i. What is th correct pronun ciation of "Judiciary"? I. Which one of the words is misspelled? Maelstrom, ma it able, mallediction, malignant. 1 What does the word "UterarU ly" mean? I. What is a word beginning with nne that means "oily; greasy"? ANSWERS 1. Say, "I'll now lisle to wha- abaat aaethar tM.ao werth eUaa'iaa ready to eat." lie added that the government obtained $23X5 for the issuance of patents to the firm an amount which Is the customary $5 per acre charge stipulated under the mining laws. "The purpose of the hearings in Washington will be to determine why and upon whose orders good judgment and normal pro cedure were thrown out the win dow in order to bestow upon 'the Al Serena Corp. 1300,000 worth of public property," Scott declared. A prehable witness in the plaa aed hearings wilt he Rep. Harris Ellsworth R-Or., In whaae dis trict the Campaay'a praprrty lira. Ellsworth latere la hehalf af tha Al Srreaa eeaipaay la raa ferences with laterier. efNrials wars Oirlr . appeal as paiag. Last yrar, after Ihe Senate cam mill ataif hegan prablnf (he ease, Ihe ceat;rsniaa said he weald welcome a tall iavrali galiea. ElUworth appeared as a witness before the same joint committee last month in Portland when it touched on th Al Serena case. He charged thea that it was the com mittee's purpose "to dig out and warm over a completely discard ed smear attack used last year (against Ellsworth in his re election campaign by the Demo cratic candidate for his congres sional seat, Charles O. Porter of Eugene!." Defending the Al Serena claims In an issue of his weekly news letter last spring, Ellsworth ssid: 10 Years Ago Dec. tl, 1IU Columbia Empire Industries, Inc., elected Lloyd Riches, Sa lem, president.' The new head of the organization, which expects to returns its pre-war program of publicising Columbia Empire products, is vie president and manager of Westers Paper Con verting Company. Plans for the reactivation of the national legal fraternity. Del ta Theta Phi, have been started with the election of Otto Skopil, former Willamette student re cently discharged from tho navy, as new dean of the organization. The Court Street home of Mr. and Mrs. William Everett An derson was the scene of an in formal Christmas musical. The affair was arranged In compli ment to Mr. Bernard Baron and Mrs. Alfred Keller, new faculty members of the Willamette Uni versity School ef Music. 23 Years Ago Dee. tl, IrM Fully ISO old grads were back at the high school to witness th homecoming assembly In their honor. Festur of the assembly was the one-act play, "The Gates," with Billy Dyer, Betty Parker, Frank Cross, Dolly Mor- gs'l taking part. season than in 1929, reports Post master J. H. Farrar, with the high mark i in the history of the office, when (7,500 pieces of mad were put through the cancelling machine. 40 Years Ago Dec. tl, 1I1S C. P. Bishop of this city and hit two sons, R. C. Bishop of Salem and C. M. Bishop of Pen dleton ars incorporators of the Washougal Woolen mills, for which articles of Incorporation war filed In th office of the Stat Corporation commissioner. A large cluster ef large, ripe, red raspberries wsj brought to Tht Statesman office by F. IL White who Uvea la the Rickey neighborhood. He also had new potatoes large enough for use. 7 Four hundred thousand dollars in sti?k certificates were stolea from a registered mall pouch at Wilmingto.1, Del., while in transit in a one-hors covered wagon te the Pennsylvania railroad station. Woman Admits Book 'Slanting? ever la ready in present wyhrd -am rt Mr" mea ever is rey to present me wltlT m.0,' l,h and a pari oi a long esiaousnea nona noe mining operation. Having com plied with the provisions of the mining laws the claimants were entitled to patents. Secretary Mc Kay, if be knew about -th manor at all, could not have prevented the operauog of the law," 1 Pronounce joo-dish- er-i, accent second syllable. S. Malediction. . With close sd berence t words; word by word. "So complicated are his phrsiiags, that it is difficult to trsnslst them literally." S. Unctuous. PORTLAND A bookkeeper aaid Tuesday ah helped falsify Grand prize in th annual o il- the books of the Slandlty Bros, door Christmas decoration con- Logging Co. at Powers. The firm's !kV" h"nT.to Prtne nv t abused of 'ail- the home of Elisabeth Scott. The , . .. .... , Judges were Miss Dorothy " W lw,uw Pearce, Deaif F. W. Ericksoa income UxM and E. C. BushneU. Eighty-flv Mrs. Noll H. Hollenbeck, SS, now residences entered th contest. San Diego, pleaded guilty te helping falsify th books. Federal Mor Christmas mail was han- Judg Gut J. Solomon ordered a died at the Salem post offk this pre-Koteoc invstigstio. Mi :v V I Christmas Sale of Mink O Pocket Capes I O Cape Stoles O 4 Skin Scarves 149 to 595 Price Includes Tag Wrap her in luxury , , , wsp her in opulence , wrap" her in mink! 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