4-(Sc. I) Statesman. Salem, Ore., Thur., Mar. 21, '57
No Favor Saats Vi. Ko Fear Shall Awe."
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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