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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1956)
2 I C.f., Tt:rs.f Mar. 7, ':3 Sicri:: cf Ca;:r--3 ! T nni2 Fii:; It f f . "T-'o Fcior Suc:,j 1'. o Fecr Shall Au f rta firt SUlesmi, Mirth 2S. 1U1 lltixua PuL!ial.ini, Company CHAFdXS A. M'RAC'LE, EJitor 6c fubiiihex Pub'nhj titrt irommf, Businm ettira 2M Koria Cnurca U, hwm, Or. ra.apfioaj 4-MU SMaraa at Um puataffwa at kalait. Or . aa nmil ttua matiar uoar act at Consraaa Ware 1. U.K. Mcabcr Associated frets Tht AaoniiM Ptvm u anutiaa teluivei to tha UM for republication 01 ali local ntwt priatad ta Uui acwkpaper. St. Louis Halts Qty Decadence St. LouU was slow and sweaty and sooty. Kansas City, on the other side of the state, bad drive which resulted in great civic prog ress; but St Louis seemed satisfied to drone , along. Other cities bestirred themselves; but St Louis, oldest city after New Orleans in the Louisiana Purchase, was content to slum ber on. However, thanks to the dynamism of a few men, the city is awaking from its piolonged Rip Van Winkle sleep. At least that is the report given by Avis Carlson in the March Harper's Monthly. The alow rot has been stopped and a marcji forward be gun. For one thing St. Louis, like Chicago and Pittsburgh, got rid of the smoke nuisance. It was a heavy consumer of soft coal from nearby Illinois mines, coal that threw a con tinuing pall over the city. Ordinances forced installation of smoke arresters and substitu tion of other fuels helped to bring a large measure of clarity to the atmosphere. Other improvements came the hard way. 'In the early postwar period the voters turned down five different bond issues for municipal betterment. They rejected a new city char ter chiefly because it contained an earningi tax. They voted down a school bond pro posal and in 1953 defeated a modest move to clear the Plaza area downtown for redevel opment Then came a change in the tide. In Sep tember of 1953 the voters reversed them lelves and approved the Plaza project. The next February they set up with the people of the county surrounding the city a Metroool itan sewer district; and in September they adopted the earnings tax they had objected to in 1950. Last year, they voted yes on each of 23 bond issue! for a total of $110,000,000 and for 116,000,000 additional for school modernization. ' This came as a result of organized effort tinder canable leadership. One of the lead ers was Raymond R. Ti'cker. a collete pro fessor (mechanic! en"!"erin) who was e'Hed fvor in w'th n orcn'z-ton of local leaders crlled Civic Progress, Inc., aggressive camoaigns were conducted to rouse the people to action to fend off decay. Newioaoers and St. Louis has excellent newsoapers stood at the forefront of the effort with feature stories, photographs-and editorials. The program now under way is described thus: It provides lor three new expressways, an " n r b a a redevelooment project, viaducts and street wideninw. modem street llehting. neigh borhood rehabilitation. -wrtrp T k s and play grounds, voting machines, new hospitals and health centers, new Institutional buildings, a new municipal wharf, new branch libraries. Im provements in the too and art museum, even a new planetarium." - r The list is long because municipal neg lect had run so long. The real moral is that cities should not let themselves run down at the heela. By timely attention to munici pal needs which, comes through wise plan ning, imrjrovements can be made by stages, sparing taxpayers from heavy burdens that arise when the needs are allowed to accumu- late." Salem is in a position now where it must decide on a number of projects that will call for more money. Instead of shying away from them, we must look them squarely in the face, determine their essentiality and or der of precedence. That way we shall not fall behind in meeting our civic responsible lties. (Hilt, the third af ai Easter vera, trrirt. Is about a respected member at the Jewish (avers, meat whe tpake up far Jetut after His regular friends nVwrt ed Him.) a By GEORGE CORNELL AP Newtfeaturet Writer Wealthy, old Nicodemus watched Jjlrii'i-in? Fiftli Amendment Refuse In IS 54 Congress passed a law aimed at de priving witnesses before congressional com mittees cf their right to escape interrogation by pleading protection of the Fifth amend ment That is the one which says that in a criminal case a witness may not be forced to testify against himself. The 1954 act pro vided that if a federal court promised a wit ness immunity from prosecution if he testi fied, then he would have to testify. The Supreme Court, by a vote of seven to two, has affirmed the validity of the act. The two who dissented were Justices Douglas and Black. The constitution is what the court says it the clamorous mob surging along is, and the majority have spoken. It occurs the street He rubbed his hands to us. however, that in thus diluting one of together fretfully and his hps the traditional rights guaranteed in the con- movd ithout making any sound. stitution, we pay rather a dear price for what He wanted to do something, but we get. It is doubtful if the testimony thus wbil couId h do- wrung from reluctant witnesses will be of For ' ,now- h h,dJ"! . . j n ' . . .11 i i i . aware of the mounting official much vaTue And it ts not at all unlikely ,nt onism t0 m, Unorthodox that dedicated Communists and oerhaps rabbi Jmui Ai , .ro,.,. others will still decline to testify. To them member of the Sanhedrin, he had a jail sentence for contempt would be a badge tried in vain to prevent suppressive of martyrdom. action. We hooe committees are not going to in- But they had Ignored his pleas voke this process against all recalcitrant wit- because he was old and the sum- mit of his power had passed, be- cause he was not alert to the 1 "present peril." A young council Portland is having pains. It is hard to tell lor had scoffed accusingly, "Art whether they are growing pains or standing- thou also of Galilee?" still pains. Major ache is over the location of 'h w," w right on the ballot in the coming election, e,,,,, Another ache is over its street transit system steadying himself with his staff, which now is made acute bv demand of oa- he sat down on the side of the trons of the interurban electric railroad that fountain in the now deserted the county retain tracks on Hawthorne "Wre- He stroked his thin, gray bridge whose approaches now are being re- 'nltofi the scenes of bu'lt. The county savs it hasn t the money- ,a,t nignt ,nd early morningi $150.000 for the extra cost and the traction and he shook his head, grieving company of course deads oovertv. These at the passion with which men controversies help prevent Portlanders from prize their authority, their rash falling asleep suspicions fired by the stresses under Roman dominion. At least 23 of the 70-member Courageous Nicodemus He Refused to Forsake Jesus I RUM SIAI1SMIN t ILE5 in the Jefferson Review: Writing news for a countrv weekly never be comes a mere rout'ne of "who. what, when, where and why." It's a personal thing. Each item in the paner is about someone we know, and sometimes love very much, or esteem very much. We share their sorrows and disappoint ments, good and bad fortune, and are most happy when writing of something good that has ,t befallen them. Writing items for the Review is never "just something to rush through before press time. 1 That explains the vitality of the country weekly. 4 - i 1 1 n (.V " i VU' Yt i i ?. h 4 Nicodemus Gladvs Shields in her Coffee Cup Clatter Sanhedrin. the Jewish governing council, had gathered hastily at the house of the High Priest Caia phas, after getting word that Jesua had been secretly arrested. The military party so Nico demu learned later had taken Jesus first to the house of Annas, aged former high priest who still was a powerful leader and who apparently arranged the seizure. There, ia aa Irregular sestlosr; Jenat had beea qaestlonrd about his beliefs and associations ta try U get damaing evldeaee, despita rigid --Jewish laws rt tectlng a maa against self-la- . , , . . c, , ' erlmlaatlaa. At the agricultural station at Iowa State Jmu,. iM1.in- h tran. had college a study of "rurban Iowa" has been retorted: "I have spoken openly launched. It relates to thpse people who work to the world ... in the syna- in town but live in the country. Variously Wgues and the temple. In secret, they are called suburbanites or exurbanites, yP "J15in-,uABkt the? ,.h,f and now rurbanites, They are a sort of hy- Tguard .Kd him. Then He brid part city, part country. They want the w brought Mort tne councni rewards of city employment and the spacious a body already smarting at Ro- living of the country. However, they are man supervision of its religious just fooling themselves. So many neighbors, ocil authority, and keenly aensi- are moving in, they find they are urban after tivMoy -tg A . called, a tall, slender man in a drab tunic, with a firm, unruffled Clatsop County folk have been contending calm. Calaphas, in his fitted, ior opening up the O k C marketing areas embroidered kuttoneth and jew- for general bidding. They hope that thus dsen,ltre' "Ued ever1 wlt' some of their mills can get hold of timber gave varying ,ccounlj of for milling. However, when the state for- jesm having said He would de- estry department sold a patch of timber from stroy the "temple made with Clatsop County lands it administers, the hands and in three days build an- high bidder was Publishers Paoer Co. of other made without hands." Oregon City. Sauce for the gander. "AnJwest Thou JUS Jesus stood silent, His gaze level. Calaphas frowaed. and bis voice rose with Judicial Imperl ousness, "I adjurt Thee by the living God that Thou tell us whether Thou ha the Christ, tha soi af God." Jesus looked at him, almost pitlingly, and said softly, "Thou hast said It. He paused, then Registration books will close three weeks Neverthec'Sii j iay unt0 yoUi from Tuesday. Whoever doesn't qualify to henceforth, ye shall see the Son vote in the May 18 primaries is ignoring a of Man sitting at the right hand Sneaking of timber sales, one was held last week on salvage timber in the Gifford Pin chot national forest in eastern Lewis County, Wash. A plywood concern bid in the tim ber at a price which figured s82 per thous and board feet for Douglas fir. At figures like that, competition instead of being the life of trade may be the death of competition. IVJSJE9& i;V:!i.pi',li ij!(i. ,y w4Bpt(l.;.JJi UJl I precious rieht Democratic Party Not Only Bitterly Split , Over Civil Rights Issue, But Also Flat Broke of power and coming on the clonds of Heaven." Caiphas's face darkened, and he burst out angrily, "Blashemy! What further need have we of witnesses, now that we have heard this blasphemy!" The others chorused agreement. Few dissented. In the hot wave of a i !!. art Kf By STEWART ALSOP Washington Tha Democratic Party these days is suffering from more afflictions than Job. Tlx party is bit terly divided. Ottside the farm areas It faded to devel op winning is sues, la Adlal Stevenson it is in a fair way to losing the only e a ndidate oa whom the vari ous f a c tons cat agree. And. as if all this weren't enough, the party if flat broke. Not evea the most sanguine Democratic partisan on Capitol Hili claims that this session of Congress has been a political ine rtia for the Drmocrats. Soma Re publicans, indeed, have already begua to borrow Harry Truman's Id slogan, and art talking about "the good-for-nothing, do-oo thing Democratic Congress." The Congress has passed twa major bills. The first was the gas bill which divided the p a r t y, killed the "giveaway" issue, and erata had beea eauatiag eanH- that maay Negroes, who la the Indignation at this religious in- deutly. Oa other Issues, the ma- past havt vated Democratic al- surgent, this threat to established ferity has beea' paralysed by Ms matt as a solid blae. are turulag institutions, there was no way to lateraal dirtslasu back U taa Republlcaa Party. itcp them, then or anytime. Nicodemus remembered once The bitter North South division The situation of the Democrats before when Caiaphas, distraught has blocked any increase In mini- la further complicated by the by Jewish unrest and anxious to mum wages, for example, or any near-mortal wound suffered by demonstrate his control to Roman revision of the Taft-Hartley Act, Adlal Stevenson la Minnesota, authorities, had sent guarda to and it has probably blocked any Since ltel. there has never been arrest .Jesus in the open. Important revision of the McCar- wild enthusiasm about Steven- But the guards came back ran Act. There Is no central party son even among the NvrUK w Jasnd issue on foreign policy, partly be- Democratic leaders. But he was cause the prestige of Senator wal- at least acceptable to almost ter George has acted as a shield everybody he was, a bridge be- for Secretary of State John Fos- tween the factions, which was his tcr Dulles. Similarly, defense Is great strength. Now the bridge not nearly the political issue it has been badly weakened, if not might otherwise be. because of washed away entirely. And there emptyhanded, deterred from their mission by the Man's sway over large audiences. "Never man spoke like this man," the had reported. At that time, Nicodemus, despite his usual quiet, retiring role in affairs of state, had spoken up courageously, protesting the flaunting of laws involved in order ing an arrest without evidence or a bearing. All that gained him ' was a aside Innuendo about his awa loyalty. Actually, Nicodemus, in his modest, conscientious way, had made a private, night-time visit to Jesus when he was in Jerusa lem a year ago to inquire directly into the Man's teachings and heal ing genius. Jesus had spoken of the need of being "born again" and Nico demus had asked, puzzled: "How can a man be born again when he is old?" Jesus explained it was a rebirth of the spirit, not the flesh, an inner freshening that ex poses a man'a ordinary arrogance and makes him like a child knowing he ia small but exu berantly sure someone is caring for him. And then He said something about God so loving the world that He had sent His son in man's likeness to suffer the bur den of men's sin, and thereby show the way to eternal life for all who accept this truth. So now, Jesus had beea takea before Pilate aad sentenced die as a revolutionary, ta die as a part of mea's sad, perverse confusion and sin. "He showed us the way!" Nico demus thought suddenly. He Etood up, his frail old back straight and determined. One thing he could dot He knew Jesus' followers had abandoned Him in the crisis of danger. But not all would forsake Him not Nicodemus not this rich, old Jewish leader. Casting caution and his normal reticence aside, he presented him selt at Pilate's castle in late afternoon. He found a ruling Jewish colleague also there Jo seph of Arimathea. Both, jeopardizing their social standing by showing partisanship for this convicted rebel, had come to see that Jesus got a decent burial. Pilate, cynically sur prised, gave his permission. Joseph offered for the purpose a tomb he had prepared for him self, aod together, he and Mr demus aad their servants took Jetus' lifeless hodv down from the cross aid carried It to Jo seph's "loag home." Nicodemus had brought 100 pounds of aromatic myrrh (rock rose) and aloes juices to sprinkle in the linen with which they wrapped the body and limbs to retard decomposition. Tradition has it that Nicodemus later wts baptized by John and Peter, and consequently deprived of his office and banished, an inquiring, philosophical old man who found it necessary to suffer in order to breast the ageless wrongdoing of mankind. Next: Peter. CHIN AM) BEAR IT Hv Lichlv the prestige of the President in defense matters. Before this aeaalaa began, tat Democratic leadership was eauat lag heavily aa aid ta educatloa as aa base far ISM. But M aaw seems highly, likely that aay Kbaal hlU at all will W paired, simply herant the school klU autamatlealty lavalvet the la flamed lasat of srheal deaegrega-Uaa. is really, no other visbile Demo cratic candidate who can act as a bridge. Add that the Demarrala have Just enough money to keep the Kaliaaal Committee tirklag aver, aad the picture at Democratic dia-array becomes complete. .The ram lag campaign m aura to he the mast eapenolve In history, aad the Republicans, thaaks largely to tha brlMaai maaagemaat at Chairmaa Lea llaD, have mare anaaey that at the very height af The bitter feelings aroused by the desezresation isiue are. in- gave the President an pportun- deed, at the heart of the Demo- h'r ftoaaced MM earn- itr to reap aa Important gam with crair troubles. The issue was '. bis veto. Tbe second was the dramatized by the "manifesto" farm bill, a Christmas tree bill if signed by 1 southern Senators ever there was one. Especially If and 7f Representatives. It was the President vetoes It. the bill further dramatized by the ap may help the Democrats in N pouitment of Senator James East vember. But M is not going to be land, the leading segregationUt, easy to point at It with pride, as a chairman of the powerful Jo piece of Intelligent and respon- diciary Committee, sible legislation. M la bard ta ate what etao Ibe-- the RepublteaM a wlde-apea up. Demacrate are galag to palat trlaa,ty to trf Negro titers with pride at, a ales shrewd ma- t "a veto far a Demarrat U a ferity feeder Lfadaa Jebaaaa EatUaad." Tbe ?. Add finally, of course, that there are no signs that President Eisenhower's remarkable person al popularity Is slipping. It might thou seem shout time to report the approaching demise af the Democratic Tarty. But two farts suggest that such a report may be premature. Tbe .first Is that the Minnesota primary Is onl the latest evidence that the and administration farm revolt Is oerfcctlv real. The second Is thsl. palls same esperled tolaUfa raaa art piaaaiag u eipiaK IM ,vfr inc jjjj, lnt Democrat! rabMis af his 1st. The press.- farther hy aiktag tar a ram. have lluboornly and iilogl- 4,, ta his cleverly eaelfd h1" aubpaeaa pawero to, Clll- tlctionl. feiUlaUe prarram. aborted tody civil rights. Aad far tha avugr Issues aa whirl la Demo- first time there art real algae x.w yfMlr.4 TnbJat Ine) i e. T V ' M- Safety Valve To the Editor: May I here with submit the Goode plan for solving the bus problem. Call for bids for bus service on each route. Let every one get into the act. Have the license fee depend entirely on the revenue from each route. Why should the man and woman with a car, bicycle or walk have to pay a subsidy to the present bus service? General opinion is that other people should be given an opportunity to provide bus serv ice. With the present critical un employment situation in Salem and area it is no problem to get help, male 6r female. Let Mom and Pop. operate the Salem bus lines. Ray T. Goode 936 to Jefferson Ta the editor: , I am writing this letter to see if it can be made possible for the children of Highland School to go directly from their homes to school and to enter the grounds without waiting for the buzzer to buzz. As it is now, the children gather on the corners and wait until the patrol boys permit them to cross the street to the school. While they are waiting at our corner they climb our trees, slide down the embankment of our lawn and tear up the yard, which I try to make look as nice as possible. Charles C. March 2104 Broadway Belter Knlisli By D. C WILLIAMS . 1. What is wrong with this sentence? Their observation of the Sabbath is very strict." 2. What is the correct pro nunciation of "procreate 7 3. Which one of these words is misspelled? Vanilla, Manilla, umbrella, umbilical. 4. What does tbe word "lev. lty" mean? S. What is a word beginning with nu that means "to render void"? ANSWERS' 1. Say. "Their OBSERVANCE of the Sabbath." 1 Pronounce the "o" as In "no," not as la "odd." 3. Manila. 4 Lightness buoysncy. "His levity of spir its was transmitted lo all his companions." 3. Nullify. "You "re Irttiiijj tltmc rrportm rattle you. Senator! , . . Juit dismiss thHr questions w ith 'no itimmrnt' , , . and stop tayintfimt guilty' , . 10 Years A?o Mar. 27. 1?1 j David C. Duniway. Oregon's j new sute archivist h. s assumed j his dut.es and is busy compil ing o(I.cial records of the sec-: end World war, Miss Kleanor Stephens, State librarian, an nounced. Duniway has been es- i signed to offices in the State : Library building. j Allocation of $4,400,000 to start construction of McNary dam has been approved by the ; senate appropriation commit-1 tee. McNary dam is planned fur J the junction of the Umatilla and Columbia rivers. Headquarters of the Oregon-i State Teachers association Will remain in Portland, the repre-i sentative council voted to de feat a proposal to transfer it to Salem. 23 Years Ago Mar. 27, 1931 William H. "Bill" Paulus. ad vertising manager for the Bish-' op clothing store, stepped out j of that position and became sec-, retary-trcasurer of the Paulus Brothers Packing company. Bill is a brother of Robert C. and George B., president and vice-; president, respectively of the j cannery. j No trains have been through Eoise from Portland for two: days due to a washout, in the Blue Mountains between Mach- em and Pendleton, Union Pa cific officals annouced. A signal victory for Silver ton and Salem and the entire Willamette valley was won in Portland when the State High way commission voted unani mously to purchase 613 acres at Silver Creek falls, setting aside as a permanent state park. The purchase price was $16,000. 40 Years Ago Mar. 27, 1911 The planting of the trees on. the McKinley school grounds was an event of great interest to the children, their parents and friends. The names of the children of each room were put into a bottle and placed at the root of their tree. Miss Emma Kramer, principal of the school gave a few remarks appropriate to the occasion. Bush's pasture, declared to be the most excellent location for a public park in the Wil lamete valley, is to become the property of the dity of Salem to be used for park purposes only, by the conditions of an offer submitted to the city council by A. N. Bush. The fear expressed at arms headquarters that Francisco Villa had escaped from the re gion in which General Per shing's cavalry columns are op erating became a conviction by the close of the day. I ji u ! 5 (111 M I t n (Continued tram page one.) which the Teamsters' union Is af!i!:aied. that this "sinister com bine" of the ITU and the ILA niu't be halted. Unfortunately, the Ioffa slate of olficers for the Teamsters' New York Council IS has been con firmed in office by a Beck-appointed committee, which ruled that 16 crucial votes in a recent election should go to John J. O'Rourke for president instead of the incumbent Martin T. Laeey. District Attorney Frank S. Hogaa declared that, the union leaders were backed by underworld rac keteers. If that is true then New York may be in for another sea son of extortion through abuse of labor union - power. The Teamster board m Hono lulu also might review the situs t.on in Minneapolis where an in ternational vice president of the union and. three officials of the local were convicted of taking money illegally for settlement of a strike. Also convicted was the vice president of a grain firm which made the payment. And in a state court the head organizer for the local and one of bis asso ciates were convicted of com plicity in a bombing directed against officials of a teamsters' local in St. Paul. They face fur ther prosecution for another bombing in St. Paul also in re taliation against another labor official. Ever since the cleanup of the goons of the Teamsters in Ore gon in 1937 who had committed arson and other acts of violence, this union has in these parts tried to live within the law. In other parts of the country, however, its officials have sold their own members short and broken laws. The question is whether the board of the International will move in to clean house in Minneapolis, and whether it will sanction the setup being promoted by Hoffa in New York with the alliance with the law-defying ILA. George Meany has another worry because of the flirting of the Teamsters with the Mine Work ers union which was kicked out of CIO for its Communist orien tation. That should be on the agenda at Honolulu, too. In fact, if the Teamsters board really gets down to doing the cleanup job that needs to be dona it will not have much time for the pleasures of Hawaii. SYRIA EYES CD PROJECT DAMASCUS, Syria m - A team of Dutch experts will arrive short ly to help organize Syria's civil de fenses. The government has begun a civil defense program to meet the possibility of a way with Israel. UNFAVORABLE RATIO NEW YORK (.tl - About 7,500 of New York City's 33,000 teach ing jobs are filled by substitute or ; emergency teachers. Charles H. i Silver, president of the board of education, says no other school system in the country approaches 1 this unfavorable ratio. He plans a i study to "see what can be done." One whale weighing a ton had a heart beating 12 to 20 times a minute. S YEAR GUARANTEE! sWeerWi ESI (0NII01 UlVUt 1 I0 III JT. tiVtm. out Mo ) noQVJici: ASPIRIN ONLY , No Finer Aspirin At Any Prlce STOP Before your present auto insurance policy expiree READ the January iasue of ' Rtader'$ Digttt Read how careful driven have saved money on auto insurance with State Farm Mutual CALL 42215 'Art' Holicher 42 N. 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