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; "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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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