"4-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore, Sun., Oct 21, '58
Ho Favor Sweyi Vs. No Fear Shall Awe."
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Eisenhower in Portland
Lingering in our memory of President Eis-
j tnhower'l visit to Portland (obsenred through
television) is his broad smile, his radiant per
tonality, his relaxed enjoyment of the scene
and the occasion. We find it a bit hard to
. recall what he said. He praised Doug McKay,
endorsed the Republican congressional 'can
didates "without attempting to tell people
how to vote," and he defended the record of
his administration. But what we recall is
. Ike himself, buoyant, friendly, self-assured.
The Oregonian in reporting his visit' com
inented wholly on "the remarkable 'aurar
which Dwight D. Elsenhower carries with him
en his travels about the nation." The dt
acription fits.
As for the President's speech, it did not
seem very meaty. It was a sketchy review in
which he indulged in the usual privilege of
the Ins" to "point with pride" to achieve-
ments of his nearly four years In office. He
brushed' aside as absurd opposition charges
on "giveaway." About the only promise for
the future was that he would ask Congress
to spend in four years the sum for aid in ed
ucation (schoolhouse construction) he had
thought to spread over five years. Otherwise
the President laid out no program for the
next four years and offered no critique on
current vexing problems, domestic and inter
national It must be realized that no one can
cover much ground in a television address
clipped to a scant 30 minutes, but it seems
clear that the President's Portland address
was not designed for any important state
ment of policy.
He came, he was seen,1 and obviously he
conquered. There is no mistaking the public
response to the Eisenhower presence. He in
vites confidence, and because the people feel
they know him and can trust him, he seems
quite certain of reelection.
Stock Prices and Timher Values
Several years ago Georgia-Pacific Plywood
Corporation (the Plywood part of the name
has been dropped) purchased the C. D. John
son mill at Toledo and its timberlands. To
help finance the acquisition, stock was sold
at a price of $20 a share in 1951 and $21 in
1952. - In the dip in the lumber business in
1953 the stock dropped to a low of 9V on
the New York Stock Exchange. Revival of
the market and the attraction of the com
pany prospects based on further acquisitions
made the stock zoom into the 60s this year
when it was split, two-for-one. Now to help
finance the purchase of Hammond Lumber
Co. a new issue of Georgia-Pacific stock is
being sold at a price of $32 a share. Ahead
of it, according to the prospectus, will be
some $145,000,000 in notes, timber purchase
loans of subsidiaries, debentures arid 412,703
shares of preferred stock.
What this represents, so we understand, is
a revaluation of timber resources, particular
ly for lands acquired in recent years. Old
companies carried their timber on the books
at old stated values. This "inventory" was not
revalued at stock-taking times as does a mer
chant with his stock of merchandise. The ac
counting probably failed also to allow for in
crease in inventory through timber growth.
Consequently when purchase offers were
made giving account to current higher prices
and later cruises, they , looked tempting
enough to owners to sell.
Whether the current values are sound, we
do not undertake to say the answer to that
lies in the future. We do recall previous tim
ber company capitalizations that proved por
ous in the 1930s. What is of interest is the
relation of timber prices to assessed valua
tions. Down in Coos county, there was a stir
when Georgia-Pacific bought Coos Bay Lum
ber company giving timber values greatly in
excess of those indicated by the assessor It
isn't safe to tax timber too high for that
would merely speed the cutting, but, if other
real property is to be reappraised givine re
spect for Drice inflation, timberlands ought to
get parallel treatment.
TR0TH' and consequences
Dependable DC3s
" United Air Lines has replaced its DC3
planes with Convairs, but DC3s still go plow
ing through the skies in all corners of the
globe. They were the veritable workhorse of
aviation, though now they are being replaced
by larger planes, the DC 6s and 7s and soon
the jets. For this plane the National Defense
.Transportation has conferred the award of the
year on Donald W. Douglas, thereby dispatch
ing, says the San Francisco Chronicle, "a tardy
valentine to a flying machine that has been
whirring its way into man's affection since
1938 the stocky, sturdy, utterly dependable
bucket of bolts commercially known as the
DC3." '
In the war the Army called It the C47, the
Navy called it the R4D. British labeled it the
Dakota which flew many missions, and Rus
sia copied it from lend-lease models. The
Chronicle reports further .
The records reveal that the Douglas people
turned out about 11.000 of these tireless aircraft,
of which some 1,000 or 4,000 found their way
into commercial usage; and though the last one
came off the assembly line on about V-E Day,
there are at this very moment more DC-J'i
' carrying passengers and cargo than any other
type of airplane.
Having ridden the DCS over the tundra of
Alaska and on the inter-island hops In Hawaii,
we want to add our tribute to its dependa
bility. The newer planes are faster, more
commodious, but it will be quite awhile be
fore they displace the reliable DC3 in the af
fection of those who have found it faithful in
flight . '
Florentines Oppose Art Loan
After the mayor of Florence, Italy, agreed
to ship 40 of the famous paintings housed in
that city for exhibition in the United States, a
storm of protest arose. Artists and other cit
izens joined in a formal protest against the
loan, warning the city authorities not to let
the paintings leave the city. They cited that
many of the city's art treasures had been left
by Princess Maria Palatina who specified
they should not be transported out of the
capital (Florence) or the Grand Duchy as
then known.
Press reports are not clear as to the rea
son. Since Florence depends very much on
tourist traffic, its merchants may fear loss
of patronage if the paintings are to be ex
hibited elsewhere. A more plausible reason
may be fear of loss or injury to the paintings
which are precious to Florentines. The fate
of the Andrea del Doria is fresh in their
minds, and they want no risk taken with their
rich artistic inheritance.
A new tack in the continuing controversy
over the grant of patents for mining claims to
Ai Serena corporation was taken by the Al
bany Democrat-Herald and its affiliated radio
station, KWIL. They sent Wallace Eakin,
managing editor, and Phil Waters, station
manager, into the mining region near Trail
and interviewed the "natives." The resulting
Interviews were published in the Friday is
sue of the Democrat-Herald and will be broad
cast over KWIL Sunday afternoon at 12:30.
Uniformly the neighbors uphold the McDon
alds who obtained the patents and defend
them as legitimate miners, not timber robbers.
So far we have been spared even a TV
view of this Elvis Presley, but the story of
his hanging a haymaker on a service station
manager proved interesting. Now if Liber
ace could only drive the teeth of the London
Mirror writer who branded him a Cassandra
down his throat, the masculinity of these
glamor-guys would seem to be well established.
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Democrats Exude Genuine Confidence
; ' Pennsylvania Can Be Captured by Adlai
v By JOSEPH ALSOP
'PITTSBURGH Both the Dem
ocrats and Republicans agree
. that this state of Pennsylvania
Is the first state to watch in the
" toming election. And the Demo
cratic Sage of Pittsburgh, Mayor
- David Lawrence, who did to
much to nominate Adlai Steven-
' son .thinks that Pennsylvania is
in the bag for his man. ...
Lawrence, a large, solid, quiet -spoken
man with a large, deeply
Data, uueuigent
" ". af I ..
face, Is very ob- ' y"N 1 ex
vtously no actor. VI ex
The confidence V to
yiat he ex- ,' r4 a
pressed to ' this - ! " vo
reporter a day
or so ago was
very obviously
genuine conn
- fence. "
. ier u Alle
gheny County," Joseph AW1
be said, "the' x r
Democrats will surely roll up an
other 40.000 votes that we should
have got last time. If we can do
that, and if Stevenson can only
hold his 1952 majority in Phila
delphia, which I think he will,
there won't be any contest. The
cUU riS be ours, period.
It was one of those golden-hazy
autumn days that are the best of
all the year,
Oa a fine day, the 11th District
If a pleasant piece Its streets
tree-lined, lit koases costly old
fashtaiee' bat seldom shabby, Its ,
people Just that mixture of work
ing data Mi small business and
white cellar hmlllea that forms
the vital backbone J srbai
America.
Altogether It was an agreeable
experience although a somewhat
exhausting one (or I managed
poll a sample equal to exactly
tenth of the district's last-time
voters before darkness finally
closed In. And with the doubters I
talked at some length.
Rick hamaa surprises are a
eammenplace ( door-to-door poll
ing ' at all times, but the few
blocks ef the 11th District were
antaally full at them. Oa the El
cBhewer side, for instance, there
was Miss Violet Roy, a sweet
faced aid Negro bonseworker at
20S Atlantic Ave., who explained
that she was voting Republican
becaaaa "I think we shmld all be
grateful for what God has given
es; and we should never complain
VjudgtoibymyowBMlliM: Ste-' " ,utM
fcl Philadelphia as he did four
years ago. But how about Mayor
lawrence's other If?" tn order
to test the Sage of Pittsburgh's
theory of major Democratic gains
ta his ewe county, I asked him
to have his staff pick as indicator-precinct
or district as they
t ..1 their precincts hereabouts
here sijna of Democratic gains
would sorely be discoverable. Af
some thought, the Mayor's av
t itaat nested the 11th District
ta the old Sta Ward, which went
f r liseohower by1 the narrow
r ' :"v of r ta tf7 ta 1951
l.Jli. , b-y.tar.d tary, timrThf Pcmacratw aetata ea
I set vJ t pU the Utb District, dldale, Joseph 8. Clark , la e
And on the Stevenson side,
there was the Rev. Mr. William
Vivrett and his handsome wife,
of 256 South Evaline St. Mrs.
Vivrett delivered the best short
lecture on America's fated world
leadership-"It's been imposed on
us, for good or ill, and the great
est problem facing our country
i how to exercise this leader
ship with wisdom, self-denial and
courage" which this reporter
has heard in many a weary
month.
There was a political surprise.
Philadelphia rail who Is ant sup
posed to have much following at
this end of the state. Yet he ran
well ahead af his Repobllras op
ponent, Sea. James Duff, aad
even gt a few votes more thaa
Adlai Stevenson himself: And the
Presidential eatest alse pro
duced a surprise, la the form af
an abnormally large number of
ndecldrd voters whs may end by
administering a sharp surprise is
Mayor Lawrence.
' In round figures, SS per cent of
the people I talked to who had
voted last time, had picked Eisen
hower in 1952, and 45 per cent
had picked Stevenson a, slightly
higher vote than Eisenhower ac
tually got. This time, 40 per cent
were rflady to vote for Eisen
hower; 35 per cent had chosen
Stevenson; one angry voter
plumped for the no-income-tax
candidate, Coleman Andrews;
and the very large remaining per
centage were in genuine doubt.
Typical of an actual majority of
the doubters was Joseph Cnrraa,
a retired railroader, who lives at
Z24 South Aiken St. Last time be
voted for Stevenson. "Bat this
time," he said. "I really don't
knew what to do; ! like Elsen
hower very muck, but still and ait
I'm a Democrat, and the Demo
crats are the party of the work-,
Ing men like me." This pan, be
tween the Elsenhower personality
and what, they conceive to be
their own Interests, was eommoa
eves amoag the 11th District peo
ple whs had made their decisions.
If the doubters split evenly,
Major Lawrence will not achieve
his expected gain in the 11th Dis
trict. Yet there Is one other factor
that may importantly influence
the outcome in the 11th District
the factor of political organisa
tion that also deserves careful
study In another report.
JConvrliMioSS'.
Htw York Harsld Tribune, tne.)
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I -awn uupL i nr
Japan Parliament
Session Slated
To Ratify Treaty
TOKYO, Oct. M OB-A special
session of Parliament will meet
about Nov. IS to ratify the declara
tion ending the 11-year state of
war between Japan and the Soviet
Union, a Cabinet official an
nounced today.
The agreement was signed yes
terday in Moscow by Japanese
Premier Ichiro Hatoyama and So
viet Premier Nikolai Bulganin.
Hatoyama reached Stockholm to
day on his way home to Tokyo
by way of the United States.
The Japanese-Russian agree
ment carries a Soviet pledge to
back the Japanese bid for mem
bership in the United Nations, pro
vides (or the return of nearly 1,100
Japanese prisoners of war and a
long-term fisheries agreement. A
separate protocol also signed yes
terday adopted a formula for vast
ly increased trade between the two
countries.
Time
Fli
ies:
From Tne
Statesman Piles"
10 Years Ago
Oct. it. mi
A. L. Lindbeck, Salem corres
pondent for a Portland news
paper, reports he is authority on
highways after an 8650 mile trip
which carried him into 26 states
and two Canadian provinces.
25 Year Ago
Oct. II. 19J1
Tusko, the elephant. Max Gfhl
har's star boarder at the fair
grounds, continued to munch his
daily diet of 300 pounds of hay,
while, lawyers took additional
steps to get the matter of Tusko's
real ownership before the court.
40 Years Ago
Oct. II. 11C
Mr. and Mrs. Harold H. Grady,
Portland, who attended the St.
Paul's Episcopal guild dance at
the armory and gave exhibition
dancing have been asked to or
ganize a dance class in Salem.
Safety
Valve
Most of the press play these days goes to the top major
political parties. However, there is a whole ballot box-full of
other parties, all with presidential candidates, slogans and
publicity handouts. You don't hear much
about these smaller units, but they're in
there fighting tooth and poll for your vote
II . ana mine, uur aim today is to outline the
L tl ' Plaorms (knotholes and all) of these small
f& k"' courageous political groups . . .
First f aU there's the "Little Man's
Party." When this srrappy organization
says it's for the small man In Amerirs,
it means just that. "Our goal when we
come Into power," resds a party cirrular,
"will be to see that all appointments to the president's cab
inet and other top White House positions go to men who are
not over 34 feet tall.." The party's presidential choice is a
3 feet, 4 inch fighter who has to stand on his mother's shoul
ders to mark a ballot . . .
Then there's the "Anti-Tax Party." The major aim of this
group is to eliminate all local, state and federal taxes. In or
der to do this the Anti-Tax Party advocates doing away with
money. The country would operate on trading stamps, soap
coupons and box tops. Major opponents to this scheme are
bankers and members of coin collectors' clubs. A party
spokesman was reported as stating recently, however, that
the A-T Party is in trouble. Nobody, it seems, wants to go
on television and compete for 64.000 box tops . . .
The party making the greatest gains rerrntly in popular
' Ity polls, however, is the "Medium Dam Party." tt has gath
ered under its banner all those independent thinkers who
favor NEITHER high nor low dams but advocate Instead
medium-sized dams. "You take a high dam and people are
gonaa fall off or get the nosebleed," was the way a fired up
party speaker put It recently. "And who's to say how low a
low dam should be. You get a dam too low in a river and
the nest thing you know you're turning out rusty power." . . .
Other parties struggling for recognition these days in
clude the "Halloween Party" (will send out its doorbell ring
ers on Oct. 31): the "Lunar Party, ' (advocates abandoning
the earth and starting all over on the moon); the "Dancing
Party" (slogan Keep Congress On Its Toes): the "New Pop
ular Party" (urges the elimination of all elections and ad
vocates selecting candidates through sale of buttons); the
"Potluck Party," (each member brings his own platform, to
stand or lie on), and the "Bitter Man Party," (includes all
those Americans who are NOT happier or more prosperous
than they have ever been ) . . .
Wiiss"
(Continued from page one.)
frequent expressions of opposition
to an income tax 'made alter he
left the commissioner's oiu-e1.
This found echo among groups
that halo fiith '3"s and oiriOn
those also who hate spending by
government, especially on the
scale to which povernment has
become committed.
Joining in this company are
those who still are fiRhtinK Wil
son's League of Nations and of
course its successor. United
Nations Here the philosophy is
one of "no entangling alliances.''
pnd confirms them in stout op
position ta foreign aid. In ilie
company also are those, chiefly
from the South, who still contend
for states' rights, spurred t h e
more bv the Supreme Court de
cision ordering school desegrega-H
tion. Professional rightist hire
lings who lie by scaring rich
industrialists on the imminence
of Socialism also will enroll be
hind this banner.
Ike Should Answer
To the Editor:
I see where the President In
his Portland address was trying
to help his man Doug McKay as
an honest man to fill the bill as
V S senator. If Doug McKay
was that good why did he not
keep him in 1 is former job as
Secretary of Interior
I intend to help a man for the
1' S. senate and it will not he
Doug .McKay. Our President
should answer the man running
for the Democrat Vice Presi
dent who had our President's own
voice on the air making promises
to get to bp President and then
changing his mind and failing to
keep that promise. I sure hope
after election day this gang of
honest men are all looking o r
another job.
M Miller.
5910 Portland Rd
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Will Keuther Rule?
T the Fditor:
Anything can happen
('hurchi!l was defeated in the
ery first election after he had
saved the country hy winning a
world war and the labor party
completely wrecked the govern
ment and the economy,
Walter Reiither may yet dictate
government affairs.
.1 M Campbell,
Dallas, Ore
Thus it is a motley assortment
linked only by devotion to a va
riety of pasts and a common
hatred of present policies and
attitudes in government. Most of
these folk are driven by strong
conviction, are deeply patriotic,
honorable in their intentions
They realize their voices arc lost
in the wilderness but they can't
help lifting them in warning
against destroying old landmarks
of government. They are .Jere
miahs, who seem quaint and odd
to the up-and-coming progressives
of this mid-20th-century.
At the other side of the political
spectrum are extremists of the
left, fretting because progress is
so slow, splintering over into
wider degrees of radicalism,
proving the trutn of Carlylc's
comment that "revolutions dev our
their own children."
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Stamps in the News
By CHARLES IRELAND
Statesman Stamp Editor
The United Nations will issue
two stamps Wednesday in observ
ance of United Nations Day.
Stamps of the United Nations
have been a bright "blue chip"
tn the stamp trade this year. It
was not so in 1951 when the UN
issued its first stamps. Most
collectors yawned and passed
them up.
From time to time the UN
Issued a special stamp. Only a
million Or so of each were printed
(a paltry number compared to
the 130 million the U.S. Issues of
each commemorative stamp).
Even so, sales lagged and the
U.N. finally destroyed the unsold
stamps.
About that time stamp collec
tors began to wake up to the fact
that here was a plum for the
picking. Dealers and speculators
outbid one another in a rush to
buy stamps from lucky collectors
who had purchased sheets of the
stamps. Prices soared.
A year ago most of the U.N.
commemorative stamps could
Congressman's
Aide Convicted
Of Tax Evasion '
NEW YORK, Oct. 20 UrWAcy
Lennon, secretary to Rep, Adam
Clayton Powell ID-NY), was con- j
victed Friday on four counts of fed-j
erai income tax -evasion.
The federal court Jury had de
liberated nearly 25 hours.
He was the second aide nf
'W4414V4W -found f uilty 4xv sue
chargea this year.
4aw
,l...l....hl. jRigr
have been obtained at the U.N.
Philatelic Agency for their face
value, which
totals 11.74 To
day stamp deal
ers are asking
4 $12 to $14 for
the same
stamps.
The stamp pic
tured was is
sued two years
ago as one of
0 Human
Rights stamps
with a total face value of 11
cents. Today dealers ask up to
$1.50 for the same stamps.
Larger quantities will be issued
of the two stamps that go on
sale Wwlnesday. Even so, there
are predictions that stocks will be
exhausted within a few weeks or
months. Collectors desiring copies
will not want to tarry.
- The stamps are available by
mall from the U.N. Philatelic
Agency, United Nations Bldg.,
New York. Cheeks are not accept
able unless certified. Some col
lectors send $1 and ask that, equal
quantities of the two new stamps
be tent. A full sheet of eaek
costs $5.50.
A seaworthy ship needs anchor
and sails. The extremists of the
right are all anchor. They would
reef the sails and never hoist the
anchor. Extremists of the left are
all sails, no anchor. They cruise
with the w inds eventually onto
the rocks. The Ship of State
needs both satis and anchors
and compass. It cannot swing
perpetually at anchor gathering
barnacles. Nor can it commit it
self freely to the winds without
guidance or restraint. It has
been the genius of the American
people that they have used both
sails and anchors sails for pro
gress, anchors for safety. with
remarkable success. They have
shown willingness to venture on
unchartered seas and at the same
time have been deaf to sirens
which would lure their craft to
destruction.
In this campaign when extrem
ists condemn both big parties and
offer what they think is a purer
gospel for America we can take
comfort that in the great funda
mentals nf national policy there
is such accord between the two
dominant parties. It gives assur
ance of progress without disaster.
DANGEROUS SERVICE PAY
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 20 tn
Workers handling inflammable
materials will get a 30 per cent
wage increase because of the dan
gers they face. The new law af
fects mostly oil refinery employes.
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SALEM, OREGON 'October 20-21 Inclusive.
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Private consultations by appointment only.
Pof luck Dinner Saturday hening 6:30 P.M.
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