Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1957)
4-(Sc. I) Statesman. Salem, Ore., Thur., Mar. 21, '57 No Favor Saats Vi. Ko Fear Shall Awe." Fnm Flril Statesman. Mare li tl. 1851 Statesman Publishing Company CHARLES A. SPRACUE, Editor & Publisher Publlsned ever? mornlnf. Busineas office 280 North Church St Salem. Ore. Tel. TM 4-S811 Kntered at the poitofftct at Salem,ra.. as second flaw matter under act af Conaresa March 3, 1S7J. Member Associated Pmi Tha Aaaoclatad Prrst ta entitled exrluslvely to lha jn for republication of all local new printed in this newpapr. The Dave Beck-Oregon Rumor Last Saturday we- questioned the accuracy of the assertion of Editor Tugman in the Port Umpqua Courier that during the "goon" troubles in Oregon 20 years ago "there-were standing warrants for the arrest of Dave Beck himself, should he set foot in the state." This ,. brought a phone call from Paul Heath, local florist, who at the time was assisting the special state prosecutor Ralph Moody with stenographic work. Heath related that while the Polk County grand jury was sitting re- t viewing the arson case of West Salem Box f Company, the late Charles Robison. attorney who defended Dave Rosson, one of the goons, a asked him if there was an indictment against - Dave Beck. Heath replied that there was none to his knowledge. When Ralph Moody came out of the jury room Heath reported his con versation, and Moody said he gave Robison -the correct answer. , We followed this up with a phone call to . rt c- 1-1: - 1. .. r . muie fipaiuing. now practicing law in i on land, who was district attorney of Polk County at the time. He stated that there was no indictment against Beck in Polk County and so far as he knew there was none in any other county. He said that Beck may have feared there was an indictment against him and so avoided the state. Spaulding reported further that the investigation at the time did not connect Beck with any specific offense for which he might have been indicted. Had an indictment been returned it might have been kept secret and service of warrant might have been delayed pending a visit of Beck to Oraonn wkrauca evtraditinn frrtm WaehinTtnn . would have been difficult since : evidence that Beck was a fugitive Maybe Tugman has facts to back up his printing of a rumor that was widely circu lated years ago. Thus far we have found no Kaia if ' VIMff aVt Jl-a Search for the Snowman Tom Slick, one of those Texa oil tycoons, is headed for Nepal where he will seek to trap the, Abominable Snawman.....Preiirnably if he finds him he will try to bring him bat it alive, though that might call for a formidable job of refrigeration. The hunt will be in the Himalayan moun tain region which the Snowman is said to in habit. The Slick party flew to Biratnagar, Nepal, and it will be their base. With Sherpa guides and many porters they will range the mountains in quest of the elusive Snowman. The expedition also will search for other ; unique zoological specimens as a contribution to natural history. v Mysteries of the mountains ire less nu merous than those of the sea, but this Snow '' man survives along with the Loch Ness mon ster in Scotland. Myths die hard, and even if Slick and his party fail to find trices of the Snowman, those who credit his existence will merely attribute this failure to the elusive- Macmillan, Eisenhower Parley Said Last Chance to Save Anglo-American Alliance By JOSEPH ALSOP LONDON. March 20The Ber muda meeting between President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan has a double edged importance. It is about the last chance to save the Anglo American partnership and the Western Alliance. Yet the prospects of success are not at all bad. despite the ugly shadows cast by the Gaza crisis. This Gaza crisis, with all its mortify ing disclosures ' of phony Ameri can - promises which ire now being broken In record time, is essentially a -nrer e'mferim . payment for the I follies "of all the I Western part ners in the Suez Joeejpu Alsoat. crisis. The real test of President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan is to find a way to dodge the final payment for those follies. This will be nothing less than the destruction of all the vital Western interests in the Middle East, by inflamed Arab nationalists led by President Gamal Abdell Nasser and strong ly supported by the Soviet Union. If this final payment li ex acted particularly If the ail leurces are nationalized the ef fect ea the Wetter Alliance and maul partiralarly the Anglo American; partnership will be downright catastrophic. But the first hopeful factor is the grim bout of fact-faring that has been going on here in Bri tain. British power and influence in the Middle East, which have always been overestimated in London, have now altogether ceased to exist. They have there fore got to be replaced by Ameri- can power and influence, if anything at all is to saved from the wreck. Fertunately, the members af the inaer circle o( British paliry makers have fared these anpata tablc facta. It is a hard blaw la British pride. II will cava marh frirtlea before k la all aver. But they are saw willing It ram mil the praterllaa af their Mid dle Eastern lateralis ta Ameri ca! hands. at As fotje second hopelul fac I V J I ! A I there was no from iustice. tor, it is the gradual emergence' of relatively serious American policy for the Middle East, not based on moralistic prating, and not characterized either by hasty . unloading of national responsibil ities into the leaky .vessel of the United Nations. fariously enough, this new America paliry rather rlasely resembles the aid British paliry. It la based an rallying and re inforcing the Ars leaders net Implacably kastlle to the west "good Arabs" at Sir Anthony Edea asea to call then. It is a considerably more prac tical policy for the United States than it was lor Britain. On the one hand, j, American Influence' does "not yet bear the "colonialist 'taint, so it is less embarassing for the "good Arabs ' to turn to America. On the other hand, the United States has what Britain never had. friendly relations with the most important "good Arab," King Saud of Saudi Arabia. In fact, the first teat af the new Amrrlraa policy's success will be whether King Saud really was prranaded, during hts visit to Washington, to cease financing the prapaganda and policy af President Nasser In the ather Arab States, Fortunately, the really import ant Arab governments, the gov ernments of the oil-producing states and Sheikhdoms, are all still in the "good Arab category." Despite President Nasser's con stant appeals to the mobs in their countries to install other governments, Nuri Pasha of Iraq and all the others are still sue ceasfully hanging on, , If they raa aow be reinforced and rallied, the worst potential consequences af the Sues debacle 1 will have beea areided. But this task an which the American policy-makers have now at last embarked Is extremely delicate and camples. All the complexities must be examined and resolved at Ber muda, moreover. As a practical matter, for instance, clear agree ments must be made about the way to handle the very touchy -human problem that Is bound to arise in certain Middle Eastern capitals. In these places, the British Ambassador has always behaved almost as a viceroy, while his American colleague has ness of the Snowman. Another reason for keeping the Snowman alive or at least the reports about him, .is that it attracts world attention, and helps draw visitors to this roof top of the world. Perhaps we should not sell this Texan short. A Dupont executive recently lost a . 110.000 bet with another from that state who proved he could kill an elephant with bow and arrow. If Slick brings back a Snowman dead or alive its exhibition would surely re suscitate Barnum's circus., John Kasper Rejected One of the most extreme agitators against desegregation in schools has been John Kasper, a Northerner. He stirred up trouble in a "border" state, at MilforcLlDel., causing seri ous disruption of local plans for complying witn the Supreme Court mandate. He carried his rabble-rousing activities into Southern states, backing the "Citizens' Councils," which are the modern version of the old Ku Klux Klan. , But Rasper's career of trouble-making was rudely interrupted by an exposure in the New York Herald-Tribune. Its reporter found that Kasper is a devotee of the mad poet, Ezra Pound, and that before taking up the crusade for white supremacy he was mixing socially with Negroes in Greenwich Village. Then he was an ardent integrationist. The climax came when Kasper testified in a legislative hearing in Florida. He had to admit his past associations; and when he did ' that the white supremacy organisations dis owned him. Kasper may be a man with a troubled mind; but in any event his instability revealed that he was wholly undependable as a leader. From Negro associate to fomenter of hate - toward Negroes was too much. As the Herald Tribune observes Kasper offers a lesson in the value of keeping a cool head: Our race problems call for the exercise of patience and intelligence, and the intemperance of fanatics hinders progress toward their solution. Editorial Quagmire ; An Oregon editor takes a risk when he ventures to discuss paleontology, for there is an informed critic in the profession Phil Brogan, associate editor of the Bend Bulletin. Recently "Greater Oregon" of Albany under took to report on the contents of an ancient quagmire, and in the process got caught in the muck itself. Here is the Bulletin's com mentary: Greater Oregon, published in Albany, has . a dark secret. Less than 50 miles from that newspaper of fice long, long ago there was a quagmire, re ports the Albany paper. In that earthy muck vrrc trapped creatures of 50.000 years ago. Thri" bonrs have just been discovered, 0;l--r inhabitants of the Willamette valley "at th..t time were iabcr-loolhcd figerC camrJs. ' tiny horses no bigger than a rat and the giant beast of Baluchistan, which scientists say was bigger than a school bus on top of another school bus," states Greater Oregoiu The surrounding region, notes the editor, was tropical. But the Albany editor is Rot revealing the lo cality. He is keeping the secret dark until rep resentatives from a national museum arrive. The editor has succeeded in keeping secret the locehm of the fossil find but he has re vealed his lack of information about Oregon's life of the Pleistocene. , -. "Tiny horses no bigger than a rat"Hved . ln the dawn age of time, not the Pleistocene. Horses of the ice age were much the same as ponies of today. The beast of Baluchistan" lived millions of years before Oregon s ice age. Furthermore, Oregon was not a- tropical country in the Pleistocene. mmmmmmmmmtmm never been more, in Hamlet's phrase, than an attendant lord. Reversing the roles will not be easy. And it will require cards-on-the-table negotiation. Hence the , mala reasea for ' qualifying ane's optimism Is simply the personality at Jaha Foster Dalles. The Secretary af State prefers la tell aothlng to any one. even In 'his department. He detests putting the cards ea the table, especially for allies. He and British Ferelga Secretary Selwya Lloyd alsa carry a leadea luggage af bitter Sues memerfes. In other words, Anglo-American agreement on a new Middle Eastern policy is now theoretical ly possible:', Bui . if this agrfe-"i "ment is to be reached, and the Western Alliance is .thereby to be saved, President Eisenhower will almost surely have to carry the ball in person at Bermuda. ICoovrljM 1SS7, Ntw York Hi-fald-Trlbune, Inc.) ' Time Flies': 10 Years Ago , Mar. 21, 1947 The 44th legislative assembly, with a $4.00!),000 cigaret tax finally aproved and the entire sales tax program now up to the senate, headed into what more optimistic members believe will be the final week of a ses sion which already is setting a new mark for length. Salem High school's debate team, Cornelius Bateson, John Thompson, Tom Bartlett and, Marvin Black, won first place in the 13th annual Willamette university high school speech tournament. 25 Years Ago Mar. 21, 1912 Fire which started , in the" base ment. Of the MacMarr Grocery store on North Commercial street, swept through both stories and basements of the Breyman and the White building. Total damage was estimated at $100. onn the structures were owned by heirs of JBreyman Brothers GRIN AND BEAR i 1 ' ;aL .. ajar"" cT VVV . mm r4 i. am "Why. tiio emphasis wn good perience that all a driver is the car IS feet nrPCTTFrmTfrnfTTfa (Tanllaurd -Egyptian troops to that trouble spot. Egypt and Saudi Arabia de claim that the Strait of Tiran connecting the Gulf of Aqaba with the Red Sea is within their territorial waters, but neither in terfered with a recent passage of an Israel ship sailing under another flag. So, while Nasser has been boastful and contumacious, h has kept his actions on the safe side to avoid international crack down. (Britain and France were too impatient they moved before there was any overt act like a breakdown or block in the canal operations). Nasser is not an ad mirable .figure; but he has been shrewd, and has become a here among the Arab peoples becausa he stood up to the West. Nasser is bitterly hated by friends of Israel and cordially disliked by the . British, but he remains popular m his own coun try and throughout the Arab world, and not without cause. For almost the first time since Safety Valve Correction From Sweetland To the- Edtton In a story in the Statesman last week-end concerning the meeting of the Democratic Fo rum at the YWCA Friday night, the reporter included an alleged statement from me that I ex pected the "key district measure to win by a smaller margin in the Senate than it did in the House". I know the error was uninten tional, but I wanted to straighten it out so that it wouldn't add to the confusion of an already com plicated school legislation picture. The key district measure for a new formula to distribute school funds in Oregon, and including a large measure of property tax relief, is in the Senate and has not yet been voted on by either house.. I believe the misunder standing arose over a comment I made with respect fo the school reorganization bill which has passed the House, but concerning which I foresee considerable con troversy on the Senate side. Let me take this occasion to express my appreciation as chair man of the Senate Education Committee for the close attention and excellent coverage which the Statesman has been giving to the Important matters of school legis lation at the session. Without dili gent oeporting in the pressv.it is. extremely difficult for the aver age family to follow the compli cations of school legislation, and nothing we do is of greater Im portance. Monroe Sweetland, State Senator. 'ram Tha Statesman Files and were built msny years sgo. One of the largest Boy Scout honor courts ever known in Cas cade area was held at Dallas. Ninety-five boys appeared for awards. Judge George Ross man, addressed the group. A few from Salem were, Tom Ga briel, Roger Kellogg, Cleave Bartlett and Gordon Black. 40 Years Ago . Mar. 21, 1917 The famous American comedy, "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," the popular play of the present generation will have its, first 'amateur presentation on any stage, when the Salem Elks pro duce it at the Grand theater. A few of the players were; Bud Welrh. Dan Lagenburg, Verna Cooder, Mrs. A. J. Rahn snd Mrs. Carlton Smith. -- War preparation by the govern ment included calling into the federal service a score of ad ditional guard regiments for po lice service in the western and 'middle western states, as an order Ipt the immediate recruit ing of the marine corps to the full strength of 17,400 men. IT By Lichty visioni , j . It's been Aiy ex has an opportunity to see ahead of him! ... (rem Page 1.) -before Alexander the Great, or at least since the Ptolemies (the line o( rulers starting with Ptol emy, one of Alexander's gener als) Kgypt is now free of for eign domination. Romansr Turks, French, British Kgypt was their " satellite. The last of the alien rulers has been cleared out of Egypt. Not only that. Col. Nas ser succeeded in outsmarting the West in his maneuvers respecting the canal. Small wonder then that he ii hailed as a hero. He has fed the pride of Egyptians and - of Arab peoples : generally who have been depressed these hun- dreds of years. The antagonisms of foreigners may help entrench Nasser in power. In the elation of new freedom the Egyptians, accustomed to scanty subsis tence, will suffer economic strain .rather than, by kicking out Nas ser, invite the return of foreign influence and control. , Any negotiations with Nasser must take this attitude into ac count. Egypt may not be con sidered a pawn. The effort must. rbe: a decent, cooperative citizen of the world. To achieve this the diplomats will have to show Nas ser that Egypt's welfare (and his own position) require the draw ing up of firm treaties among Middle Eastern countries, treat ies that will be respected. It would be a mistake to try either to bribe or to bully him, but the pressure of the international com munity can be employed as it was with Israel. Properly direct ed that may bring results. Better English By O. C. WILLIAMS 1. What is wrong with this sen tence "After the game, they pro ceeded to divide up the money," i. What is the correct pronun ciation of "archangel"? , 3, Which one of these words is misspelled? Pinnacle, encumber, mediocre, acerage, 4. What doea the word "devi ate" mean? 5. What is a word beginning with I that means "incapable of existing together in agreement or harmony; discordant?" ANSWERS ! 1. Omit "up.", t. Pronounce first syllable as "ark," not as -"arch," J. Acreage: - 4. To turn aside from a course; wander. "We must not deviate from the path we have chosen." S. Incom patible. Wives of Leading Soviets in Rare Public Appearance MOSCOW, March 20 (AI " The rarely seen wives of ;, Nikita Khrushchev, V. M. Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich and other top Soviet leaders gave an unusual feminine note to a Soviet state occasion to day. - -.- They turned out for a luncheon given the visiting Hungarian gov ernment and Communist party delegation headed by Premier Janos Kadar. The Hungarian visitors arrived this morning at Vnukovo Airport and filled the day with wreath laying, courtesy calls and lunch eons. The wreaths included one for Joseph Stalm-inscribed, "To J. V. Stalin, steadfast fighter for the cause of the working-class snd socialism." Business - talkson" ideological and economic unity with Moscow were to begin Thursday. Body of Woman Found Under Bed NORTH BEND, Ore., March 20 tm The body of Mrs. Msry. ManakS, 12, was found today under the high, old-fashioned bed at her home. r Mrs. Manaka. who lived alone, had been sought since Monday, when neighbors reported her miss ing. ; ; ...... . There was neither electricity nor running water in the house, which was filled with piles of old newspapers. She hsd lived here about 30 years and had no known relatives. The coroner's office attributed death to natural causes. Welfare Budget Jump Marked For Aged Aid (Story alsa aa pagt !) Kenneth Peterson, Marion Coun ty welfare commissioner, said Wednesday $28,000 out of a $163, 176 increase the commission is seeking for the coming year will Be earmarked for cash grants and medical supplies for the aged. The sum would bring the total old-ace assistance program to $1.102. noo as compsred to the current 1,074,- 000. :- No allowance is made in the OAA budget for a decrease in com mission income if the Relative As sists Act is repealed by the 49th legislature, Peterson said. Al though $20,600 was derived from this source in 195S, the increase is designed to meet increased costs, of the OAA program, he said. A proposed $11,000 Increase for care of -children in county foster homes brings this b'udget item to $96,000 as compraed to $80,000 for the current year. Rising medical costs are reflected In an increase of medical supplies to the physi cally handicapped to $2,500 from $15,000 a year ago. Sizable Items in the budget showing no substantial increase include $171,000 for cash grants to the physically handicapped; $305, 500 for aid to dependent children, and $235,55(1 tor administration. Of the total budget estimate, $905,919 is expected to come from the federal government, $964,14A will have to he approved by the state, and $342,589 by the county. All three sources contribute to the county program on varying ratios in the different aid categories, Pe terson said. i TV Newsman Dropped for Beck Show SEATTLE, March 20 I - One regular member of a Seattle tele vision news-panel was dropped Monday night at the insistence of Dave Beck before the Teamster Union president would appear on the show, station officials dis closed today. Dropped from the Beck show on KING-TV was Robert H. Schul- man, Time-Life magazine corres-j ponaent in Seattle ana longtime meroef- of-- the pane-.,-,-:, Charles Herring, news director of the station, said Beck flatly refused to appear on the program with a representative of Time Life. In further questioning," Her ring said, Beck declared he want ed no one questioning him who might "be prejudiced against him." The panel which questioned Beck consisted of two members of the Post-Intelligencer newspa per staff and a member of KING'S news staff. Area Farm Council Meets At Pendleton PENDLETON, March 20 I -Agricultural colleges can improve public relations for agriculture by compiling and helping to dissemi nate more facts, the Pacific Northwest Farm Council was told here today. . The conclusion was reached by a three-member panel, which also suggested state advisory groups dean at the University of Idaho; C. A. Svinth of Washington State College's sgricultural service, and can W. Scheel, assistant director of the Oregon Stale College exten sion service, made up the panel. Elmer McClure, Oregon state Grange master, was moderator. Earlier, a panel of three' women concluded that food industry ad vertising should be "glamorized" and said food has not been given its proper place in the average family's budget. ' Roy Battles, assistant national Grange master, addressed a din ner tonight. ----'The-couneit-'mceting---will -end after more panel discussions to morrow morning. . Walla Walla Con Near Death After Stabbing Attack WALLA WALLA. March 20 I -a state prison Inmate, Edward Beck, S3, was critically stabbed by another convict late today and is not expected to live. Warden Bobby Rhay said Beck, convicted f kidnaping in Cowlitz County, was stabbed at least four times in the back and chest by Earl Clayton (Tuff y) Runyon. 37, as he walked by Runyon's desk. The weapon was a crude knife made from a 12-inch file. Runyon, serving time for first degree murder in Snohomish County was placed in the maxi mum security isolation wing. He will -be prosecuted by Walla Walla- County on tha outcome of Beck s injuries, Rhay said. State Inspectors To Probe Blaze ROSEBURG. March 20 I -Two investigators were on their way here from Salem today to inspect an automobile repair shop damaged by fire last night. I Loss was not estimated, and W. E. Mills, Roaeburg fire chief,) would not speculate on the cause! of the blaze. He called for the investigators, j saying. I want someone with more experience than I have to investigate." f, V 1 1 Sabotage Ruled Out in Death, of Philippine Chief MANILA, Thursday, March 11 i Philippine investigators have narrowed down to pilot error and engine failure the possible causes of the plane crash that killed Pres ident Kamon Magsaysay and 25 others. . No sabotage or foul play was involved. Col. Richard Papa said today: He is deputy constabulary chief. Investigators surmise that the plane's right wing snapped against a tree of the Cebu Island moun tainside where the plane crashed and burned. One man survived the disaster newsman Nestor Mata. Investiga tors said his report that the crash was preceded by an explo sion has not been borne out Mata's story had raised specula lion of possible Communist sabo tage. The 49-year old Magsaysay was strongly anti-Communist. Funeral services for Magsaysay will be held Friday noon, preceded by an open air requiem High Mass in Memorial Stadium on Manila Bay. Jury Convicts Prohibition Era Slayer PATTFRSOM W J Marrh SO 11 A jury today found 63-year-old James (tockeyei ULeary guilty of murder in the second degree in a gangland, prohibition era slav ing 28 years ago. Passaic County Judge Edward G Collester set April 12 for sen tences. The charce of second He. gree murder carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. O'Lcarv was tried on an indlef. ment which had lain forgotten since the shooting victim, Alex (Schmutz) Szabo, fell under a hail of bullets in the rear of a Passaic garage on May 2. 1929. The episode allegedly stemmed from a dispute over a Ramsey ale plant . . Four men were charged with the1 slavine and all were released on bail, O'Leary for $10,000 in 1934. Acting Passaic County Prose cutor Charles A. Joelson found the indictment in his files 1cr rwm. ber. The whereabouts of the other three are not known. O'Leary was released from state prison in Rayway last April u aiter serving two years for at- tempted burglary. He had spent, time in orison on two other w. Szabo slaying, and today's con-t viction makes him a fourth of fender, liable to life imprison ment. The key piece of evidence intro duced by the state was a state ment Szabo allegedly gave police from his deathbed. ' In it, Szabo said: "I was shot while I was stand ing and when I was lying on the ground. I Saw O'tjarv snH Kin Mike with guns In their hands and Ika Mtk. 1 viuci iwu men. He Quoterf O'I.eanr "Yes, I told you I would get you," as u Leary was being led away to county jail, he waved to news men and said, "So long, fellows." He added, "I am Innocent." Defense Counsel Edward Mad den said he would appeal. House Slashes Agency Funds WASHINGTON, March 20 l ine House today slashed $537, 993.000 from the SS ftiriss onn in new funds requested by President &isennower to finance 18 inde pendent federal aeencies The cut exceeded by 21 million dollars the reductions reenmmend. ed by the House Appropriations urnimiuee last week and boosted to 681 million dollars total the House-voted cuts in four annual money bills considered this year. fassage by voice vote sent the bill to the Senate. The House voted tn eliminate entirely 130 million dollars asked strategic and critical materials. Other reductions were srntlpreH amon a - a- number1 l -a Beneie Major allotments in the bill as it left the House were tmm ?ns . 300 for the Veterans Administra-, (ion, 1119.645.000. for the Housing and Home Finance Agency and sz.i,.tt.uo lor the (ienerai Serv ices Administration. Troubles Snowball For Empire Man EMPIRE, Ore , March 20 W -David Olson, 81, was preparing to move from a trailer house into a tour-room cottage yesterday. While he was away, some one broke into the trailer knd Stole his clothing, groceries and a gun. Last night the cottage burned to the ground. Phuns CM t-SSIl Saborrtptlea Rales ay rarrwr la rlthrai Dally only i ts per mo Di and Sunday IMS per mo Sunday onlv ' .IS week By aall bally an SaoSayi ftn advanrai In Oragoa . i la per ma I SO six mo ; I0M yar By mall Sanaa? onlyt tin advanrt! Anywhere in VM S SO per mo ; 1 76 stx mo. 100 Tear In U S outside . Ortaon S1.4S par flio alaaiMt A nail Bar ml nrratauaa Baraa) of 4rtialnf AN PA, Oreiaa Ntwspaaot Pakllshara AasarlaUaa ASvarrtsinl Ranrassntaltvest atara-nnrriik c , San Pranrlarn netralt taai Hnlliaa? t o Mow fork Cktaas Scribe Recalls U '.S. Defense By ARTHUR EDSON WASHINGTON, March 20 W -Nearly everyone seems to have ideas about cutting President Ei senhower's budget for running the government next year. Letters are pouring into Con gress (rom constituents eager to see some whacking done. The House formally has asked Elsen hower if he has spotted any fiscal branches he would like pruned. Republicans and Democrats slike Elected Richard Simpson, Salem Jun ior, Is new president of the student YMCA organi zation at Willamette Uni versity. Simpson to Head Y Unit At Willamette Richard Simpson of Salem has been elected president of the YM CA group on the Willamette Uni versity campus for the coming year. - - - - A junior psychology major, Simpson serves ss house manager for his fraternity, Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He is the son of G. L. Simpson of Salem, Bob Taylor, Portland, is vice president; Jack Benedict, Port land, secretary; and Ron Wilkin son, Vancouver, Wash., trensurer. The university's Independent town students re-elected Dan Newberry presiaent of .their group for a sec ond year. Assisting Newberry will be vice president, Sharon Bates; secre-1 tary-treasurer, Dorothy Hudson; student " council representatives, Angela Bower and Leroy Cornie; religious life representative, Alan MacKillop:; and activities board, Don Hodges. Sen. Neuberger Charge-Denied By Alaska GOP JUNEAU, March 20 im Repub licans in Alaska have taken issue with the charge of Sen. Neuberger (D-Ore) that a "raw, naked bitter struggle" within the party is hold ing up President Eisenhower's appointment of a new governor and that the territory is suffering because of it. Neuberger's charge was called "unfounded" by Russ Arnette, president of the Anchorage Re publican Club. Sid Charles, publisher of the Ketchikan News,, said Neuberger should pay more attention to Oregon and less to Alaska. Charles said Alaska seems to be getting along all right under an acting governor,, but that he couldn't say the same for Oregon, on the basis of testimony in the current Senate rackets investigation. ( j. Time When Came Cheaply publicly at least claim to be highly interested in saving money. Yet because of the shsky con dition of the world, no one has said much about the biggest item of all the 43 billion dollars Eisen hower thinks is necessary for. na tional security. Gadgets like atomic cannon and airplanes that break through the sound barrier cost big money. Hut for the money-savers in the audi ence let's take a nostalgic look back to the times when defense wasn't so expensive. All for Economy - , - The first Congress, in 1790, was all for military economy, too. Secretary of War Henry Knox, like many a Cabinet officer later, put up a bitter argument that Congress was overdoing it and that his department was being trimmed too far. But the early legislators paid ltd attention to him. They authorized an army of on ly 840 men. Of these. 672 actually were in service, and they were expected to fight off Indians along a thousand-mile (rentier. In fairness, it should be said that Knox didn't fritter away much money on paper work. Ho got by with only one clerk. By 1796, business had picked up considerably although the military still had slight resemblance to to day's Pentagon. The new secre tary, James McHenry; had dou bled the clerical staff and now had two. In his book, "The American President." Sydney Hyman tells of a French officer who dropped around to pay his respects. No Sentinel at Poor To his surprise, the visitor found no sentinel at the door. In side two clerks scribbled away "in the midst of the solitude. They apparently explained whera the boss was, for the French offi cer observed: "Mr. McHenry's name figures in the state budget for $2,000, a salary quile sufficient in s coun try where the secretary of war goes in the morning to his neigh bor, the, barber, to get shaved " But for economy " dreamers there are better dreams yet. During the days of the Conti nents! Congress things were real ly run on a minor' league scale. From June 20 to Aug, 12, 1784, me commanaer or ine army was its highest ranking officer, Capt. John Doughty. Doughty commanded a few fel low tfficers, very few, and he didn't need many, In the whole army at that time there were only 80 privates. Dl ki fll',rl fe D wi ICI I TO Discuss 0.& C Land Problems ROSEBURG, March 20 UP) Edward Woozley, director, , and other Bureau of Land Manage ment officials will discuss 04C land problems in Portland Monday with representatives of Western Oregon OfcC' counties: : This was announced today by Frank Ashley, Douglas County commissioner and chairman of the O&C counties road committee. Woozley will speak in Vancou ver, B.C., this weekend to the Western Forest Industries Assn., which recently has been critical of BLM road policies. Nov. 15, 1951 "We as a family want to thank you for all that vou did for us when out brother Bill passed sway. We were very well sat isfied with the way you took care of him. Your work was satisfactory in every detail and needless ti say it meant a lot to us." Sincerely, The "K" Families The above taken from our ftla ot unsolicited letters. HOWELL-EDWARDS FUNERAL HOME
