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:. I) S:;;rrr.-.w, Si!cm. Ore, S;:n., Jan. 22, '55 IVo Faior Su ays Is. j Tear VU Au e" Fnm lint Stttesmsa. March ZK im Statesman Publishing Cornpany CHARLES A. SriUGl E, Editor 6c Publisher Iubiirid evvnr jnorninl Baim offr ?0 North Chjrcft SU, Slm, Or. Tel-phon 4-f.SU Xnterrd at the amctoffic at Salem. O-, aa irnnd . tiaaa matiar under act of Confreaa March 1. :.' Member Associated frets Th Aaaoriatrd Prmta la entitled exclusively to the us lor republication of all local news printed m this nrwpaper. Revising Election Laws The interim committee on elections set up by the last Legislative Assembly is really buckling dawn tents task Meeting are-held,-regularly each month at the state" capitol. The committee staff, headed by A. Freeman Holmer of Willamette University, assembles material and submits memoranda for com mittee consideration. To enlist comment from citizens or organizations the memoran da are circulated and all interested are en couraged, to file their comments with the committee. In many respects our election laws have just growed," though on the whole they are well designed to protect the voting right nd insure honest register of voter prefer ence. The aim of the committee is to review Dur laws and procedure on elections so that the choices of the voters may be freely ex pressed and counted "honestly, accurately and efficiently" and that any misconduct be kept subject to prompt and effective remedial action. A number of proposals are up for consid eration. We have picked out some of them for public attention primarily to show how thorough is the preliminary work of the Itaff and the committee. 1. Reduce the number of separate ballots handed the voter at elections. 2. Do away with candidates slogans; also the designation of residence of candidates. 3. Insert squares where vote should be marked for partisan candidates as is now done on measures and non-partisan candi dates. ..... 4. Party designation of candidate should be single, the one in which he is registered, not two, even if he has won most votes in primary of other party. 5. Omit names of presidential electors 5uririin; SiiitM Since the presidential messages er.d.Ts.r.g more spending; for highways, for farm re l.cf. for schoo'.houses the political writers have had quite a field cay for their commen taries. One writer accused Eisenhower of raiding the Democrats' ammunition dump. Another, Joseph C. Harsch of the Christian Science Monitor's Washmcton bureau, also draws on the obvious military parallel. This is his description: "As the morning mist lifts from the great I mted States political battlefield of 19.V a sur prising sight is disclosed. 'The Rcpuhlican array is deployed in a far broader front than it has presented to its an cient foe since Teddy Roosevelt raised the standard of his Square Deal. "Its right wing is anchored on the high' ground of a promised balanced budget and a record of substantial encouragement to big industry, .K "Its left wing stretches off toward theTifoad" plain of social security and welfare statism. "In the center is the heavy infantry of peace and prosperity." It looks as though all the Republicans need lis a General and the "Salute to Eisenhower" frjsllXnight was designed to draft one. BRINK EXPRESS JMcv In his quarterly report to stockholders Tres. C. H. Gueffroy of Portland Gas & Coke Co., states that his company has siqned con tracts with Pacific Northwest Pipeline Co. for purchase of firm requirements of natural gas, also for additional "large volumes" of gas for sale to industry on -arv-iftterruptible basis. This marks the advent of a new fuel in ample volume offered at rates which must be attractive to draw and hold business. The local company is carrying forward extensive construction work and will be ready to dis tribute natural gas when it becomes avail able in the late summer. The big pipeline is being laid in Northeast Oregon now. It crosses the Columbia at Umatilla, comes down the Washington side of the Columbia. Portland will be served throueh a main under the Columbia from Vancouver. mmm Situ ysp a TvD2 of EcrJh lAovi m m Docs 'Four Jobs in One' lince voter votes for the presidential ticket. Party committees would designate the elect ors to cast the state vote. 6. The old practice of posting election no tices should be done away with a sample bal lot mailed each voter. ?. County clerk should be responsible for delivery of election supplies to precincts, not the sheriff. 8. Streamline procedure by eliminating one cf two poll books, one of two ballot stubs, one of three election clerks on day board. Pay of election board members should be not less than minimum wage. 9. Polls should be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., 10; Provisions of law foe contest of elec tion should be revised permitting recount in limited areas. ' 11. Secretary of State should have full re sponsibility for administration of election laws including supervision of county admin istration. Another memorandum deals with voter registration and with the means of identifi cation at the polls. All of this shows that an expert and un biased job is being attempted by the staff for the committee, with full publicity. We want our election procedure to be crystal clear and pure as a mountain spring, and as simple and expeditious as possible. We anticipate that the committee report will point the way toward achieving that objective. It used to be a man who owned a big farm near a city could sell it to a golf club at a neat profit. Now the cow pastures are being converted into shopping centers. Editorial Comment The Soviet Union now has added Latin America to its list of economic aid targets. Its offer of ma chinery, oil and technical aid in exchange for Traw" mr-terials is similar to recent deals promoted in Asia and the Near East. In addition the Soviets are anoint for diplomatic relations with the 18 Latin American countries with which it doesn't now bave ties. ' The Communist offer inevitably raises the quev tions&?how much is talk and bow much is Russia prifWed to deliver. The Soviet Union has sub stantial prior commitments to China and North Korea. It has offers outstanding to India, Burma, Afghanistan and Egypt. The Russian people them selves suffer from acute shortages. Recent Russian trade experiences with Argentina suggest the 'Communists would find it difficult to live up to all their promises. The Argentine agree mcnt has had to be renegotiated and scaled down. At last report the Soviets were way behind on de livery of acceptable goods. Despite the uncertainties in the Soviet offer, the U. S. can hardly object" to It. The United States Justifies its aid on the grounds of promoting a better life and higher standards of living in under developed areas. If other nations want to join in providing technical assistance and stimulating trade, they should be encouraged to do so. As Sec retary Dulles noted recently. "The United States seeks no monopoly in rendering economic assist ance." The ever-present danger in Soviet aid Is its po tential use as a lever to build up Communist pres tige and develop a pro-Soviet fifth column. Latin America, however, has had some recent eye-opening experiences with Soviet tactics In Guatemala and British Guiana. In nearly two-thirds of Latin America the Communist party is now outlawed. The United States would do well to point out the possible dangers-jn a too-tight Soviet caress. But the most eloquent answer will still be lowered U. S. tariff barriers, increased trade and imagina tive technical assistance to meet the Soviet com petition. Des Moines Register. (Continued from page 1) 'If Mi UnnUU Pa rmitc men Pncoc I nrn " ' 1 a wi MIM4W a w---- w UDsiacio to KOGiection bia oy tisennower By JOSEPH AND (TEW AST ALSOF ' WASHINGTON The first general press conference since the President's heart attack was a decidely reassuring occasion. Dwight D. Eisenhower looked well. His color wis good. His grin wu as infectious as ever, lit wis not treated lightly by his questioners; yet he handled the questions with the sure mastery that he hit gradually developed since the early days when press con ferences were toobvioutly grite ordeals tor him. the President seemed to lack a little of his old bounce and ' fast-striding energy whea ha entered the crowded chamber. The pouches under his eyes were noticeably heavier. The lyes themselves, whea be did not laugh or smile, seemed restless and even a little troubled. the mil MltVfff, ed was one of N"'rH To be sure ii a little iv bled. Yet IV total Inv l 2 Vigor and assurance. With a difficult year ahead, la which governmental paraly sis rsa be appallingly danger ous, it wu deeply encouraging te see the President with his jH sgii firmly the bain. But It is quite another que tiofl, whether this bnpreMioa should alse reassure the Repub lican leaders and all the mil lions of ethers who to strongly bre thst the president will jmd te rue agaia. Tae diatlwrtlas Wtwee' Hi eakawer's pre at state awd his future great deeUiea vet as 4frV.ai, ee H were, er hie lel'grta perssitUa his bum te be eatered la (be New Hamp shire primary. Careful . study should be givea te the laagnage that be used about his ewa condition, which Is as fellows: "It would be Idle to pretend that my health can be wholly restored to the excellent state in which the doctors believed it to be In mid-September (just before the stuck) ... My future life must be carefully regulated to avoid excessive fatigue. My reasons for obed ience to the medical authorities are not solely personal; I must obey them out of respect for the responsibilities I carry," . Here, ewee agala, and la evea stronger Uses, was the same note the President bad strwrk la the special conference ea his health that be granted the sssall frtme W rrartera at Key weal. " la Key West We bad Intima ted that II weald be wreng for bias u raa agilB If he did have a good tkanre el terviag eat a fall seeend tersa, aecsase "It Is a my critical thing te change gaverameats la Ihia reentry at s time thai Is ea etpeeted." Now he was adding the farther statesmen! that de spl his merrilwU ta4raUd recovery, the fact had te be faced thai his hurt, attack had la fmt saeaiare pertsiaeaily impaired bis health. Put the Iwe together, then, and h becomes rather elesr what the President Is atkmg him self, and whit he will uk hit doctors when they complete their finil check up. Ht will aik, not whether he ll out of the Immediite weeds, but whether a mia In his condition is likely le survive the heavy preaauret of the Presidency foe another full term. It te a grim eaettlas, a4 easy or plea a M te dlsresa. The ' stt4 SetboHiauve etndy, baaed ea ease hiiterles ef I9f tardia paueata mm te ase a sm4 hp Daetset Dtrid K. ret, irtlja B. iiaglaa aad Lewis M- Kats ef the Medical Research Institute -ef Chicago's Michael Reese hospital. The U. 8. News aad World Report has recently reduced the Cole-Slnglaa Kats statistics te tabular form. The table shows that a man of the President's age, who his successfully pissed the first months of acute dinger im mediately after his heart at tack, then has five chances in eleven of living more than five yeirs which means five chances in eleven of serving ' out a full second term in the President's esse. The chances must be some whit further weighted againit the President, curiously enough, because he hid his attack while resting. But his excellent state of gen eral health and his line recov ery constitute even bigger items on the favorable side of the balance, i.. i',,. ., la told statistical terms, this Is the best available answer te the President's big qaestlaa. It seems likely that the Cele Ring laa Kats statistics are not fully accepted, er at least are differ ently Interpreted, by the Pres ident's civilian heart specialist. Dr. Paul Dudley White. t But It can be slated on posi tive authority that the eminent Army heart specialist. Dr. Thomas E. Mattingly, does not make so light of the permanent impairment caused by a heart attack as Dr. White has recent ly done in public. These facts, la turn, give a somewhat are twist le Ue re peated, boldly positive asaer liaai of the President's chief ' polllicsl adviser, thai be Will certainly ran aula "if his health permit." lac Ihelr cer tainty Is slasyt carefully eee dluaaal; aad It la my clear frem the statistic cited that their "If" la considerably bigger taaa meat people hi-e reme te suppose. Daw Tfk ltwa.4 Tnawao lax J to appear far more drab than it really is. He wants the Wife-idea sold particularly the career of. Wife of the Business Executive (that man in the gray flannel suit again, and all those ambitious men reaching for the lop spot In" Executive Suite i . For one thing he observes how much the exec, needs a wife. Jobs "are becom ing so incredibly complex and competitive that key executives have almost no time for anything but work." These, men need wives to look after them, help them maintain emotional balance. Then Wilson confesses he doesn't want to see his two daughters to grow up and become career women in gray flannel suits carrying brief cases! Looking back on the New York offices where he had worked Time Flies FROM STATESMAN FILES 10 Years Ago Jan. B, IMS The First National Bank of Portland was granted a city per mit for the wrecking of a service station at 290 N. Liberty Street. The bank previously announced its intention of erecting a new building on that site for the Sa lem branch, Russia returned the important rail lines in the northern provin ces of Azerbaijan, .Mazanderan and Kazvin to the control of the Iranian state railway. The action was described as "The first Rus sian gesture of friendship toward the new government." Harvey Shafer, discharged army sergeant who saw action in Africa, Sicily. Italy and France, was appointed bailiff of the Slate Supreme Court. For s number years prior to entering the ser vice, Shafer was employed at The Spa estaurant. 25 Years Ago Jaa. 8, 1131 The Oregon State Sheriffs association, closing their annual convention in Portland, went on record as favoring a reformatory where youthful offenders could be confined without contact with "hardened" criminals. Officials of the city of Portland received a scoring at the ways and means committee meeting at the legislature, when It was an nounced by Senator Woodward that neither the municipality nor the Port of Portland had kept faith with the state in connection with the maintenance of the bat tleship Oregon. Memlwrs of the lower house In the legislature here defeated by a vote of 41 to II a move to reconsider Oregon constitutional amendments lor prohibition by voters at the next election. 10 Years Ago Jaa. tt. till Granting Independence lo the Philippine Islands in not less than we ytars and not more than lour years 1nay be favored by the Wil son administration according to Senator Hitchcock, chairman of the Senate Philippine committee. F.dilortatly Baltimore. Colo rado, up la the Rorky mountains, has not beard that the state Is dry, and its saloon U still going, and will keep on till Ihe deep i now melts. There are places ai riest out ef the world, etea la our ewa land. The state of Oregon Is le hat another univeraMy Articles ef la-co.-poratio were filed at the state house by the 1'nMr.My of Port land. The university propoae le gfv Us students education In Liersrj, erimliffc and classical Laos. and career women he had known he found the glamor pretty well rubbed off: "Most of the un married ones lived in lonely little walk-up apartments, and their social life consisted largely of go ing to the movies with girls like themselves." For w ifehood (exec, style Wil son sings a paean of praise: "I know plenty of women who, as the wives of successful men, learn more, about investments, accounting and upper bracket public relations than 99 per cent of the women in offices. There's happiness and money in mar riage, girls! The retirement benefits and opportunities for travel are often excellent at least as good as in most offices. Be an executive wife! 'The hours are long but the rewards can be great." This reminds me of the article In Fortune magazine a few years ago on the "corporation wife." She has to be one who conforms to the mode or she hinders her husband in his rise up the cor porate ladder. If she Is queer, neurotic, a political radical her husband stays chained to a desk on the fourth Door or is sent out t run the branch in Jersey City. Not all the girls are able to marry the man destined, to be come the business exec. Some may have to settle for less in marriage and do home sewing for their daughters till the latter are grown. I do not believe Sloan Wilson's critique of the woman in the gray flannel suit, carrying a briefcase, will change the ratio very much There certainly is no dearth of marriages, and there are thou sands of women who annually join and annually desert the business world. If there were not this generous recruitment how would business get on, and how would business execs, who are as help less in their offices without a secretary as they are at home without a wife get on? I conclude we shall continue to have the corporation man, the corporation wife, and men and women in other occupational orientations, and we shall con tinue to have women in gray and blue and brown flannel suits most of them carrying handbags rather than briefcases, nd wo men will continue to desert ca reers for marriage, especially if they have a chance to marry an exec, in a gray flannel suit. Safety Va ve Dulles Should "Speak Softly To the Editor: It seems to me that defend era of See. Dul les are evad in g the point in their defense of! Bv SAM IHY BOISE, hiaho - It lwks " bttle like a lobster. It runs, crawls, saiops, shovels does almost ev erything but comb your hair. ike Wardle. the Fiie construc tion man who inented it. says it will create a revolution in the earth-moving business and lead to a new day on the farm, around the house and on snow-clogged city streets. It's called the "multi-mover" a combination dump truck, tractor, carry-all and bulldozer which War die claims will do the work of all four, and a good deal more etti ciently. He got the idea for it seven years aso while working on a dam con struction project on the Missouri River in Nebraska. . The men were loading huge car ry-alls with dirt and pulling them with tractors. But it had been rain ing for days. The, carry-all wheels sank deep in the mud and the tracer wheels spun helplessly. Losing Job "In six weeks we lost $9,000 on I that job." said Wardle. "What we needed was an earth-mover with power under all four wheels something to work with in all kinds of weather." Within a few months Wardle had designed a four-wheel-drive vehicle with the engine in the rear, a steel apron in th front and an automv tically operated claw loading de vice which can scoop dirt into tho truck or push it out. i It differs from most earth mov ers in that the operator sits in the rear and can see what he's doing without craning his neck around. Also, it's designed to do a variety of jobs. The large construction outfits can use them to clean up around a project, leveling building sites, picking up odds and ends and cart ing excess dirt away. i The small contractor can use them to scrape top soil from a field and spread it on a man's gar den, driving right up to the edge of his house. i Wide I'se "I For the farmer Wardle foresees I a multitude of uses digging pits. ! hauling and spreading fertilizer ' and cleaning out rocks and stumps. ' ; He claims it's ideal for removing j snow from streets and highways. He says the Amy has expressed intere in it as a low silhouctted weapons carrier, the Air Force as a pickup vehicle for air drops, Wardle has a patent pending on the device and has incorporated the Idaho Manufacturing Co to build the first test machine, which will cost about IV. 000. He hopes eventually tolicens a large manufacturer for mass pro duction perhaps in Idaho, taking a slice of the 800 million dollars ' spent each year in the purchase of earth moving equipment. Wardle has been in business wilh his brothers Pete and Golden for 10 years in Boise as an excavation contractor. He started with the Morrison Knudsen Co. of Boise in 1930 and was the company's excavation foreman on Wake Island in lll when the island was over-run by the Japanese. , The Japanese put him in charge of Korean laborers constructing a concrete dam and an airport. tllC Ual!b 111 elicit UVICIIIC -i 0 r his remarks. It is not his tactics Sll))Iv OI PollO to which many of us object I I Vaccine Reported they are as old is time it is his bad taste in bragging about them. Such a course is a chal lenge to the countries involved not to back down the next time. Mr. Dulles has become, through Down in Oregon PORTLAND i Commercial his offensive way of putting "PPes i aa' anti-pono vaccine, things, the most disliked Amer- there was an abundance ican in our State Depirtment. ! Iast mon,h. " r running short As one of our allies has said.iin Oregon. j "even when Dulles is right he ! The State Board of Health rc maniges to be disagreeable ported, however, that it expected; about it." I think one should ! another allocation of 30.000 to 40- j speak softly "when carrying a 000 ccs- of h vaccine sometime 1 big stick" if he does not wish .before Feb. 1. i ur. Harold M. Kricxson, state to be forced into using it Frank Judd, 5327 Lone Oak Rd., Salem. Enough Said! To the Editor: I have read with much inter est the letters on fluoridation. 1 sincerely hope we will soon have it here. Though I am only in my twenties I will have to lose all my teeth very soon. Wish they bad fluoridation sooner. Enough said? Margaret Bell 531 Gerth Ave. health officer, said there still were adequate supplies of public vaccine. This Is available without cost through physicians to persons who cannot afford to pay for the shots. you your nexf car flND OUT ABOUT STAT! FARM'S LOW-COST "BANK PLAN FINANCING You may save as much as $100 et snort on the purchase of a new ca used car when you use the Sum Farm "Bank Plan". You save on financing through your nearby bank at their low bank rates. This saw ing, plus your savinp on State Farm insurance amounts te real money. And your Stater Famr Agent hsn dies all the arrangements for yow Call today-your State Farm Ageal b only a pheat call away. If t ejri e f saw feer ITATI 'AIM A0INT Olson mm, i J I J una XT tl:U ill Street Meteor Seen Near Coast BEND I Phil Brogan. north- jwest director of the American Meteor Society, said Saturday a j green meteor widely seen on the 'evening of Jan. I apparently was headed for the Southwest Oregon j coast but probably did not reach 'land. ' Brogan charted the course of the fireball from widely scattered reports. He said it first became j visible about 70 miles above the earth as it flared la from the Pa cific. It was seen In the Eugene, Med ford. Klamath Falls and Lakeview areas. Reports of seeing the fireball came from as far away as Central Oregon's high desert-, about mid way between Burns and Madras. Demos Name Grcsham Man WASHINGTON UP - R. Vernon Cook of Gresham. Ore . is one of seven new rrgional directors of Ihe Young Democratic Clubs of America. - " - - His appointment was announced here earlier this week by David A. Bunn, president of the orgamia tion. . The region which Cook repre sents Includes Alaska. Idaho, Washington and Oregon. Circuit Judge to Seek Reelection R05F.BURG - Charles 8. Wondrich said Saturday he had filed far election as circuit judge, a position lo which be was appointed by Gov. Taul Patterson last June after the Legislature had created a new Judgeship for Doug las County. Wondrich. It is the second youngest circuit judge In Oregon. State Education Board Gets Fund PORTLAND W -.The State Board of Higher Education has announced acceptance of I100.S) in gifts and grants. Most of the funds were grants from private and oublie Mtmcir !for special research. A total of ,tl7.06 was added te scholarship 'funds. Rent ... to Own a Mew Portable Typewriter Famous Makes . Rent HfC Green Stamps i Hew Portable, for as liflte as hi $flffi50 Per 3 Month Months If yen cheese, use te 6 months rental li dowa aeyment en this special effer. , 10W EST TERMS ON THI lAUNCt KAY TYPEWRITER CO. 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