The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, April 15, 1956, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextMcKay Due Home on Monday to Begin New Phase Of Long Political Career Campaign for Senate By CONRAD FRANCE Staff Writer, The, Statesman (Story tl on Page 1). Douglas McKay, the man whd wanted to quit politics 3 year ago, arrives home tomorrow to begin the major battle o( hli political career. At the climax to a long and div tinqulshed career In local govern mcnt McKay carried Oregon'! banner to the upper echclani of tederal government when he was named aecretary o( the Interior department In President Eisen hower'i cabinet No. 20, 1952. He baa resigned from the in terior department to return to Oregon to seek election ai U.S. Senator. That post is now held by Democratic Sen. Wayne Morse. I irst barrier to the goal, for Mc Kay, it i touiih primary battle with State Sen. Phil Hitchcock for the Republican nomination. McKay's appointment to Presi dent Eisenhower's cabinet In 1932 came at a big surprise to national political' observers. "He had not been regarded generally at being among the front-runnert for the job," read one dispatch. . Labeling himself as "just a punk governor from a small state," McKay found himself with the gigantic job of being land lord of one-third of the nation's area, of administering a $519, 000,000 budget, of bossing 96,000 people (which he had pared by 4,000) ami watching over a far flung domain. He said that, although he had hoped to retire irom public life at the end of his governor's term, he "couldn't refuse" President elect Eisenhower. Congratulations McKay's selection to the cab inetthe first Oregon citizen so honored since 1871 brought con gratulations from most of Ore gon's top officials. . Sen. Morse, however, branded McKay a "stooge" of selfish interests." The two men have rarely seen eye-to-eye on anything since es pecially in the field of power de velopment and natural resources. As one of the original sponsors of the Willamette Valley Project and an active member of the Col umbia Basin Interagency Commit tee, McKay has already Interested himtelf in reclamation, natural resources. Hit announced viewpoint on water power development in the Pacific northwest was, briefly, that public and private power could and should exist side by side. "There's room for both," he said many times. An early Eisenhower supporter, McKay pledged to carry out the Republican platform on public power, off-shore oil lands and Al askan and Hawaiian statehood. Headlines Made Even before his approval by the U.S. Senate, McKay made headlines. In closed-door testi " mony before the Senate Interior Committee he advocated Riving privately-owned utilities a bigger share of the power business. . After his appointment McKay plunged into the job of adminis trating his vast Interior empire, made a flying visit to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and purg ed his regime of undesirable "New Dealers." Some of these "hirings and firings" brought on controversies. He kicked up a local hornet's nest when he virtually junked the old Truman administration's plans to build a federal dam at Hell's Canyon and gave a friendly nod to a privately-owned power firm. He added his decision was "part of the policy of this admin istration." Sen. Morse immediately leaped on this announcement with both eet, crying "a shocking betrayal of the public interest," Annual Saving Meanwhile McKay started a re organization program in the In terior Department, with a view toward saving about $250,000 yearly from "immediate chang es," He cut 1.322 employees off the reclamation bureau staff and reduced other staffs. The power pot continued to bubble when the secretary and Mrs. McKay returned home in June, 1953, for the Detroit Dam dedication and several other pub lic appearances. Of Interest to this locality was sn Interior move to speed up the McKay also announced plant to formulate a "definite national In dian policy," urged that some national parks, utilized only for recreation, be turned over to the states. 'Confused Program' ' On a return round of speeches Are You Correctly Registered to Vote?, In order to vote at the May 18 primary you must; 1. Be correctly registered by midnight, Tuesday, April 17. ' You are correctly registered if you: 1. Voted at the 1954 general election and have not moved or had a change of address or change of name since. t Will still be living at the same address en election day. S. Registered since the 1954 election and meet the other qualifications above. , You may register! 1. From 1:31 a.m. to 8 p.m. at, the county clerk's offict Monday through Fridays. 2. From 8:30 a.m. to I p.m. at the county clerk's office April 13, 14, 16 and 17. 1. From S a.m. to I p.m. daily through this Sunday at Salem fire stations. 4. With any one of the 41 deputy registrars In different sections of Marion County. Citizens who will become eligible to vote between April 1 7 and May 1 8 must also register before the April 17 deadline. " If the Post Office has changed your address you may report the new address to the county clerk by telephone or mail. , Union Takes Pickets From Motor Firm Agreement between Salem Ma- Area Timber Survey Due In 3 Years m. salvage of some 20 million dollars jn May for the avowed purpose wunn oi umocr muni, lanus. oI eplaining the "confused pow er program," the secretary noted that much of the misunderstand ing "It caused by uninformed per sons and some by deliberate mis information." , , , , He predicted that current re search would toon permit con struction of river dams without harming fishlife. In talks billed , by Republican leaders as major power policy speeches,' McKay reiterated hit faith in a program j of development of power projects In thit region by both public and private agencies. I Backers of Earl T. Newbry, who was running against Paul I Patterson for Oregon'a GOP gub ' ernatorial nomination, accused i McKay of using Republican Nat ional Committee funds to influ ence the election in favor of Pat terson. , Another local controversy got 'underway when the Interior lie partment approved the sale of txmneville power to lour private I utility companiea under 20 year I contracts. i Blast by Morse i Sen. Morse blasted the action i at a "sellout of the public Inter est to private utility monopoly." I In mid-1954 McKay, on a flying ! visit to Interior territories scold ed Alaskans about their belliger ent approach to the ttatehood is sue. This made headlines and counter headlines. He made a whirlwind tour of Oregon in an attempt to help Sen Guy Cordon get reelected. But Cordon was defeated by Democrat Richard Neubcrgcr. On a vacation visit home last August McKay said the adminis tration's partnership power policy is receiving "fine reaction" over the country, despite opposition in the Northwest, Despite the burden of responsi bility he carried, McKay gained and held the respect of Washing- ton newspapermen. Reporters said his office was practically the only major one in the Capitol which was always open to them "McKay," one of them wrote, "will grant interviews to accredi dramatic suddenness, McKay flew to Oregon and filed for the Re publican nomination for the Sen ate. . So Do lit McKay, who once des cribed himself to Washington I automobile firms it has been 1 Satrday by District Korester newsmen s Just a country hoy, ".piateting appeared near haturday.jotro c. F. Kruegor of the U.S. is coming home to do battle once ncxets were withdrawn from Burt An tnvnfnrv nf tim. W in the Salem Forest District will be comoleted in another two cmmsis ana at least one ot mreeior three years, it was announced again in the home pasture. Runmcay U.S. National Plans Forum '"The first of U. S. National and assistant trust officers H. E. Bank's 1956 estate and trust forum Butler and William R. Bradshaw. aerie, wiU be held In Salem at' ""tTtl'LF emu Bwiai iivui wu vviivtuuc ujv forum, Gibson stated. Anyone in terested is invited. the Marion Hotel at 7:30 p. Wednesday. Rex Gibson, vice president and manager of the Ladd k Bush Salem branch,- will preside. The meeting will feature a four-man team from the bank't head office. The current series marks the seventh year that U. S. National has presented the informative i Three member! of the Citiiens' series throughout the state. Last Committee for county planning and year more than 2.500 persons at- ning will outline , problems in tended the 21 forums ivolved at appearances this week The imoortance of estate Dlan- iore Marion toumy groups. ning, practical distribution plans County Zoning Talks Planned mmm m i vmm, m m , 1 i in, SELMA. Ala. -. G r a c e Marit Ewing, 18-year-old daughter of i ' a wealthy former deputy as sistant secretary of . defense, Frank M. Ewing, was found working in a Selma grocery Saturday. She ran away from home at Kenwood, Md.. Feb, 28. The blonde teen-ager, told ; reporters "I left home te cam my living, and I've fonnd out now that I can." Valley Motor Co., 375 Center St., indicating that the union and com pany had apparently reached a tentative solution to their labor problems dating back more than year. Authoritative sources who de clined to be quoted tald a new contract would probably be signed Monday by the union and Valley Motors, Salem outlet for Ford motor cart. A company spokes man said It would definitely not be a union shop, reporting terms of the contract would permit me chanics to decide whether they wanted to be union members or not as before. He said terms of the contract were not yet completely worked out but that he was sure they would reach equitable terms all the way around. The union had struck the firm last year in wage and hour dispute. Pickets still petroled two other Salem automobile firms Saturday, however, and though there was some indication aettlements also might be near at Loder Bros, and Capital Chevrolet. Mexican Film Showing Planned "Red Rain", movie version of prize winning Mexican novel of 1946, will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at . Collins Hall on the Willamette University campus. The film is set in the historical Bureau of Land Management Re-inventory of about one-fifth of the 430,000-acre district hat just been completed, Kreuger taid. , It was explained that multiple use, sustained-yield management is based upon accurate inventor ies of resources. ., , In cooperation with the Oregon State Tax Commission, Oregon State Board of Forestry, Soil Conservation Service, Commodity Stabilization Service, Geological Survey, and others, the Bureau of Land Management Is securing aerial photographs to use at a basis for preparing resource ma pa. All new photographs that are required will be taken thit tummer. ' Coordinator of the Inventory program in the Salem Forest Dis trict is Robert L. Mason, who re cently wat promoted to that posi tion. He workt under the super vision of Robert D. Hostetter, As sistant District Forester In charge of resource plant and land use. Mason stated that timber stand ages and conditions will be out lined on aerial photographs and field-checked this summer for an other one-fifth of the district Volume samples of mature tim ber in the same area also will be taken if time and availability of foresters permits, he said. Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun., April 13, u0 (Sec. I)-7 Death Claims Mrs. Froglsv -Mrs. Minnie B. Frogley, Keiwr resident since 1902, died Friday In an Astoria hospital at the age of 82. She had been hos pitalized since suffering a stroke II months ago on a visit te daughter In Astoria. She waa born near Springfield. Iowa. Nov. 21, 1861. She and Alfred William Frogley were married In Minnesota in IMS and moved to Keiser 10 years later. Her husband died in 1908. . She lea vet a ton. Obed Charlrt Frogley. 'Salem; daughter,' Mrs. IC.-s. Bessie Snrll, .and grand son, John Snell, both of Astoria; three granddaughters, Mrs. Zi!!iS Schooley, Oswego; Mrs. Arlene Olson. Salem; and Mrs Betty Jean Roberts, Dallas, Texas; and six great grandchildren. Services will be 10:30 a m. Mon day in I. u c e Funeral Homo, Astoria. Graveside services will be held 3 p.m. Monday at City Vievf Cemete-jr. National Chief of VFW Here Today National VFW Commander Tim othy J. Murphy will visit Salem today for a public meeting at the Salem VFW Hall. Murphy, a Boston lawyer, is scheduled to arrive at :4S p.m. for bis I o'clock talk at the hall. VFW posit from all the Western background of the revolt of de la Huerta against Mexican President Obregon in 1923. Open to the pub lic, the movie will have English sub-titles. r OPEN MONDAY and FRIDAY 12:15 TO 9 P.M. OTHER DAYS 9:30 A.M. TO 5:30 P.M. Sentimental gift for Mother's Day, May U that have been used successfully and the need for sound estate man agement will be the topics for dis cussion during the. Wednesday eve ning meeting. . Speakers will include R. M. Alton, vice . president and head of U. S. National's trust depart ment; W. D. Hinson, trust officer, Club. Lt. Col. Norman W. Todd will talk before the Hubbard Parent Teachers Association at 8 p. m. Monday at Hubbard Grade School. Scheduled as speaker at a meeting of the South Salem Chamber of Commerce at 8 p.m. Tuesday is Everett DeWeese, while at noon Tuesday David W. Baker will talk at a meeting of the Stayton Lions 8 Students From Salem Rate High At Oregon U. Eight Salem 'students were among 287' named to the winter ted reporters and answer their jterm honor ro1 t University of questions on any subject, holds barred." Mind Changed ... . Early this year, Immediately after the tragic and unexpected death of Gov. Paul Patterson, McKay indicated he wanted no part of the U.S. Senate race, to which Patterson had been com mitted. " . In March, although still ex pressing s wish to return to pri vate life in Salem, McKay said he would stay on in the Interior post if the President-wants me to stay." 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