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'4-Sec. I) 'Statesman. Salem, Ore., Fri., Feb. 7, '58 'it "No Faun Sways Ut. So Fear Shall Awe." fro Flm Statesman, March U. ISM CHARLES A. SPRAGUE, Editor & Publisher WENDELL WEBB, Managing Editor Entered t tha port office t Salem. Or., aecvna ela matter under act of Congrett. Marrh S, l7t Punliihed eery morniof Burnt office ttt CTuwh St., tit Salem Or Tl EM -ail Meatber Aaaectale Prctt The Aieoeiated Pm entitle eacluaively to th vtm for reproduction of all local m pruitrd is thu newspaper Was West Tricked' At Conferences? The Grants Pass Courier used the televised Interview of Edward R. Murrow with Harry S. Truman as occasion for a review of "the story" of Harry Truman. It predicts that Mr. .Truman will not go down in history "as one of America's great Presidents, but neither will he be ranked as a particularly inept one." In the course of its editorial the Courier states: "The record shows thai 14 major agreements resulted from the high level Potsdam confer ence and, that Russia violated every one of them." , We are not sure whether the editor is quot ing Truman at this point or expressing his own opinion. In either event it isn't correct. One of the agreements at Potsdam (confirm ing those made at previous high level confer ences) was for Russian participation in the . irar with Japan, and that agreement was ful filled, though its help wasn't needed and con tributed little to the victory over Japan. The conference also, dealt with the administra tion of Germany, setting up the allied coun cil. This functioned for a time it may still have a paper existence; but became moribund through failure of the allies to cooperate after the war. The Courier also declared: "History already is taking the position that . the West was tricked unmercifully not only at Potsdam, but at Yalta and Teheran." It is still too early to say with finality what Clio,, the Muse of History, will write about the International conferences referred to. We have no access for instance to the Russian documents. The best study we know of the relations of the heads of the three great pow ers during the late war is "Churchill, Roose velt, Stalin." by Dr. Herbert Teis, professor' of history at Princeton. A re reading of his account of the conferences at Teheran and Yalta gives no basis for the charge that the West was "tricked unmercifully" by the Rus sians. Certainly Churchill in his memoirs makes no such confession. Bargains were made, to be sure, and most of them were kept. Tha breach between Russia and the West be gan after Yalta and was enlarged after Pots dam. The first essential in review of a period is to try to reconstruct its climate. The Teheran conference was in November, 1943, Yalta in January, 1945. The former dealt largely with coordinating military operations against Ger many, especially the second front: the latter with the windup of the war. Both were con cerned also with the entry of Russia-into the war against Japan. At Teheran Stalin "roughed out" some terms he wanted met if Russia fought Japan. At Yalta the chiefs of the three states agreed on these points: Dai rea to be made a "free port" (which Roose velt bad proposed at Teheran). New. Soviet Defense Mean End to SAC's By JOSEPH ALSOr PARIS, Feb. 6 The Soviet Union is bow building a new 1 air defense system that is ex jpected to neutralize the present Anterieaa nuclear deterrent, th Strategic Air Command. When the new system is eompletad, effective defense wi ear .1-. '"P. iwiv - craft will be a novel conv bi nation l import a n 1 1 y improved ra dar and anti aircraft mis siles with nuc- leer warheads. Wa A IWtaWtPI. can govern ment is the , Jaarpt) AU i ultimate r source of this news, which is aa ironic commentary on offi cial Washington's boastful ex ultation over the American Sputnik . According to an American intelligence estimate presented to NATO, (he new Soviet air defense system will be fully installed within five years, which mean thrt five year is the life term of SAC as now constituted. Furthermore, the NATO forecasters, with the British in the lead, are con vinced that the West ought to be prepared for completion of the new Soviet air defense sys tem at a much earlier date, within twe to three? years. la this ronaectiea. H i worth noting that there la eaae aa record of aay Ameri ca! Joint - tetelligeaee esti mate of aay form of Soviet .weapons develonaaeat which was not deddelr aver opti mistic Frosa the atomic Bomb onwards, toe ajilnlnenm te roreastlag the tests wbea the Soviets . woald have new weapon has always boon two years, aad often the- error has been much greater. If a two-year error Is tsataed In i the . American est I a ate, the ' NATO nrltlib estimate of t Soviet air defeat prgrw If i aaprorimatoly confirmed. : V, Russia to re The difference is of desper ate importance, because of its bearing on what the experts call the "missile gap." This is the period when the Soviets will be able to attack the United States with intercontinental bal listic missiles, whereas the United States will only be able to retaliate with aircraft If the American time esti mate given above is fortunate ly correct, then the missile gap will have been bridged before the Soviet air defense system is completed. In other words, the V. S. will have the new retaliatory power of its own intercontinental ballistic mis siles before the aircraft of SAC lose their usefulness. Bat if the NATO British time estimate it correct, the new Soviet air defease sys tem will be completed loag before the U. S. can hope to have perational ICBMs. Taas there will be a period wbea SACs aircraft will aot eoaatitote a eria threat to the Soviets, while the Soviet ICBMs will ratitte a atott serioat threat to the tailed State. i The danger of this period will aot be eaormoutly les teaed, either, by the ,ea plaeeoteat of intermediate range balHatle mJssHet e Mil tide of the Atlantic, a the territory of our NATO allie. The t'J, the necessary lead er of the West, will have a retaliatory power of Its own. The whole harden of defend ing the V. S. will that be placed anoa the other West ern allies. The atere political aad diplomatic "eoaaequeaeea of sock an aaomaloat tltua tioa hardly bear thinking aboat. Yet it is clear that Soviet progTem with their new air de fense system was a major fac tor in the American decision to press so hard for acceptance of - intermediate rang ballistic missiles by the other NATO nations. Ia fact tha American intelligence estimate was actu al v presented to NATO In the context of the IRBM debate. The purpoee. plainly, was to show that th West's nuclear retalia ceive a lease for Port Arthur as naval base, the Manchurian railroad to be put under a Chinese-Soviet commission. Now to quote Dr. Feis: "The President had the choice of opposing these and the other Soviet demands, or of leav ing them to the Chinese to grant or deny, or of agreeing to support them. He chose the third course. By doing to he probably did sot agree to anything with which Chiang Kai-shek would not have been forced to grant anyhow, perhaps less. But he made the United States responsible for what the Soviet government exacted. And when later it turned out that Soviet participa tion in the Pacific War was not needed at all, his compliance came to seem foolish. To echo Churchill, those who, have never tried to serve several good causes at the same time, each beset with risks, will be most harsh in con demning the error." Among the subjects discussed at the con ferences, Poland proved the most controver sial. There the dispute was chiefly over which group to recognize as the "government" of Poland. Churchill and Stalin agreed to ac cept the Curzon line as the eastern boundary of Poland and the former was willing to com pensate Poland with lands in Eastern Ger many At Teheran Roosevelt begged off from commitments respecting Poland. According to a memo, made by Charles Bohlen, of FDR's conversation with Stalin, the President ex plained to Stalin that the United States would hold an election in 1944, and that he might have to run for re-election if the war was still , in progress. He explained "there were be tween six and seven million Americans of Polish extraction in the United States and he did not want to lose their votes." Hence, he felt he couldn't participate in decisions re specting Poland, or publicly take part in the arrangements contemplated FDR was n't "tricked" as to those arrangements. President Roosevelt at these conferences pressed his idea of a postwar organization. He was very anxious to get Russia to join, and suggested that the United States. Britain, the USSR and China could act as the Four Police men of the world. Stalin, with some perspic acity, "wondered if the world would rest easy under the. four policemen." But Russia agreed to join, and FDR assented to its get ting three votes. The future status of Germany was dis cussed. All seemed to favor dismembering their great enemy, but "This lively preliminary flourish of knives over the body of Europe ended without any definite conclusion as to whether or where the incisions were to be made." The division of Germany occurred on the line of the Soviet Zone. No. the chiefs of state of the West were not "tricked" at these conferences. On the whole the meetings proved fruitful They did maintain the alliance until Hitler was crushed and Japan defeated. The split in the alliance did not really develop until 1946-47. The job now is to prevent that split from growing worse, and to take steps to heal it. That will take many, many conferences at low, inter mediate and high levels. The government is trying to lengthen the maturities of its indebtedness. The Treasury is now offering to holders of five issues ma turing through April 15th next choice of three issues: a one-year certificate with in terest at two and one-half per cent, a six year, three per cent bond and a 32-year, three and one-half per cent bond. The more our short-term debt can be worked over into long-term the better for the treasury. If we are going back to deficit financing, however, it will be hard to stretch out the term of our debt. Refinancing then is a little like shovel ing sand, maturities roll in about as fast as new certificates of indebtedness can be sold. System to Usefulness tory power needed to be strengthned by every avatfabl expedient To make matters worse, even the relatively optimistic Amer ican estimate implies that the Soviets have stolen a march oa the United States in two fur ther, highly important fields of weapons development, radar and rocket fuels. The radars the Soviets are now producing for ' their new air defense system are admit tedly superior to the American radars now in use in our Cana dian DEW line, being particu larly capable of scanning effi ciently at higher altitudes. The United States has a still better radar coming along but tone is tempted to say as usual) the date of actual production is till rather remote. At for the killlag ramp st mt of the Soviet air defeat system, both the Soviet I'aioa and the United Slates loag ait raa nuclear weapons tests at very high altitudes. These were ojaite certainly tests of clear warheadt for anti aircraft wrapoas. Naelear warhead, with their power it kill by blast at dittanee t maay hundreds f yards, rvnove the need for direct hitt oa attackiae airrraft. This gives the potsmillty. ta turn, of Mstethia elate to m per eeat kill rate. Ntthiog let will make Ike fcatlet afcr defease fatly effective, even against aa-eraf! loaHed oita ft bomb, oaly a few nf wnfcra can wreak tneh terrible devas tate.. On the other hand, even a nu clear warhead that could kill by blast at, the rang of a mile would be wholly useless for air defense. If married to the kind Of missile we have been testing at Cape Canaveral. The long pro ctss of fuelling and counting down would hardly be started be fore the attacking aircraft had reached their targets. For air de fense, no missile that is not al ways ready for Instantaneous use is practically acceptable. ' The more you examine it, la short, the uglier this news look. (CoovrlfM ItSat ' New York Vyiltf-TTtb, Ina.1 GRIN AND BEAR "Drink your coffee and get down to the office, Smedley! " ... I'LL tell you when 'it isn't worth it"! ..." A conference planned, in Portland Wednesday by the new State Planning and Development Dept. almost got sidetracked because of (that's right) planning trouble. Seems that back several months ago when Planning Dept. of hotel was to be full on the conference date was because a Portland Chamber official had gone ahead and reserved it for the conference. So then the state planning agency had to do some fancy last-minute planning to get the pro gram in shape. Anyway, It all came off like the well planned event yon would eapect the department to put on . . . When Woodburn policemen corner a rat, they don't fool around. They blast him just like on TV. According to the Woodburn Independent, two cops caught up with a rat in Woodburn's Pix theater the other night and filled him full of lead, when he refused to surrender. Patrolman George Hig-' gins and a state policeman staged the gun-battle about 1 a.m. after a distress call from movie projectionist Joe Davis. And they didn't wait for the commercial either. Davis ratted to the law when the rat (a four-legged one) ran up his (Davis') trouser leg when he tried to brain him (the rat) with a shovel. Tht law arrived, outdrew the rodent and shot him six times through his Mickey Mouse button. We can hardly wait for this case to reach Lineup . . . A fashion note frosa France says that French women, are using a raw potato mixture as a facial to combat swollen eyelids. American women should please note. After they use the potatoes for french-sties they can make dresses out of the sacks . . . That Statesman story about the little boy with Jeukemia brought a call from a Salem woman who reminds that the disease is still practically 100 per cent fatal, but that intensi fied research is continuing. There is no organized fund drive here but she said donations to aid in research may be sent to Leukemia Research, 67 Wall St., New York City . . . And a breathless communique from the national Father's Day com mittee informs a waiting world of the Day's schedule. The offfcial color is blue (what a lot of fathers turn lots of times during the year!; the official flower is the rose (fathers are always rising to occasions), and the official menu starts with soup (what most fathers find themselves in most of the time) . . . tmxxmmmmx.wmm' tm Mnmm&Mmmm -r.n.t'mmim Time Flies. 10 Years Ago Feb. 1. 1 Thirteen persons were res cued from the Columbia River near Umatilla. Ore., after a bill iard a mothered th Columbia Gorge in snow, sent lumber fly ing through the air at McNary damaite and wrecked three riv er boats. The steamboat Colorado was driven aground at Otter Rock in Coos Bar harbor by gale winds. Heavy seas claimed the lives of five teamen off the Pa cific Morthwett coast 25 Years Ago Feb. 7, 1M The final lecture on the study of "Combat Orders," under the direction of Col. Carle Abrama, infantry, will be afforded mem bers of the Officers Reserve as sociation. Lt Kenneth W. Dal ton is president of the group. Trask. 14 mile northeast of Butte. Mont., watched its gov ern ment-t cited thermometer link to 60 degree's below aero, then put in its bid for the du Better Enqlish By D. C WftXIAMS I. What is wrong with (hit en tence? "He was excused on ac count of his youth." . I. What is the correct pronun ciation of "placabte"? I. Which one of those word Is misspelled? Hierarchy, hilarious. hinderance, hysterical. i what does the word inad- S. What is word brzlnnlng with inc that means "begin ning? ANSWERS S . It is better to say, "BE CAUSE of his youth." 2. Pron ounce plar-kah-b'l. and not plack-a-b'L S. Hinderance. 4. Not wor thy to be admitted. "Tht discus sion of this subject it inadmiss ible." . incipience. IT By Lichty m a "ae JB' '' f nwVj ficials tried to get Multnomah Hotel space for their conference date they were told the hotel was already booked full for that day. So they called off the conference. Later when the Chamber of Commerce lead ers, who had pushed the conference in the first place, asked the Planning Dept. if everything was all set, the state men said no, they couldn't get hotel space . . . Then it turned out the reason the Pram Th Statesman Fil bious honor of being the cold est place in the country. 40 Years Ago Feb. 7, 1918 W. T. Jenks of H. S. Gil Co., was appointed representa tive of the federal government in the Northwest 'to secure dried fruits for the army and navy. Delegates representing mora, than 30 organisations with a to tal membership of 30,000 Rus sians in the United States, arose and vigorously applauded the playing of the "Star Spangled Banner" at the opening of th first all-Russian civic conven tion of America. Cold Curtails Ike's Work WASHINGTON, Feb. ( I -President Eisenhower curtailed his engagements and quit work early' today because of his cold. But an aid reported him looking "amazingly well." Associate press secretary Anne Wheaton gave newsmes that re port at the end of the day after the President had returned' to his office briefly for a ceremony mak ing him an honorary fellow in the American College of Surgeons. ' Mrs. Wheaton said Eisenhower's cold and sore throat, which de veloped Sunday night after a weekend in Georgia, were about the same today. She added that the President atfll was quit hoarse. '5 Atom Work Reported T(X AVIV, Feb. W Fran cois Barnard, former French mia-,' ister for economic s (fairs, has disclosed that France is supplying '.' Israel with uranium for atomik research. Bernard, a member ' of L a visiting parliamentary . delega tion, said Israeli scientists hav mad important discoveries-! In atomic research for peace and have mad them available to French scientists. . mum mum ICMUaaed from Pag 1.) that about two-thirdi of th taxes you pay go to the national de fense and o foreign military and economic aid. all of which are definitely a part of our "inter national" relations. And what happens on the (sr side of th glob has its effects her. You investors who held stock la Gulf Oil and th other international petroleum companies saw how prices of those shares reacted to the closing of th Sues canal, and to its reopening. Nations have alwaya insisted that tariffs are matters solely within their domestic jurisdiction.' So they are legally. But if ai is now proposed we slap tariffs on lead and sine and copper w may upset the chronically unstable economy of a country lik Chile or offend our very best customer, Canada. To give protection to the "distressed" oil companies of Texas and Oklahoma our govern ment ordered a "voluntary" re duction of IS per cent on imports of petroleum, and this draws pro tests from some of the newly emancipated leaden in Veneiu ela. our best customer in South America. To make this protection look plausible it was given a de fense sugar-coating the explana tion was offered that we needed to keep our domestic oil industry strong lest supplies of foreign pe troleum be cut off. Yet recently this restriction was extended to the Pacific Coast aad now cuts imports of crudt from Canada to th three refineries in Wash ington, although this supply pipe line, threading-through the moun tains of British Columbia must be about the most secure of any on the continent. You see, our national affair art also inter national. Again, here in the Northwest we hav been seeking coopera tion with Canada for the compre hensive development of the streams of the Columbia River system for power and flood con trol. General MacNaughton, who heads the Canada section of the International Joint Commission, however, proposes to channel waters of that system into the Frazer so they would reach the ocean without crossing the Inter national boundary. This would do great injury to the potential of the' Columbia for the United States. If we put tariffs on Can ada lead and zinc, shrinks its one export market for petroleum, dump our surplus wheat abroad and thus curtail the market for Canada's great surplus how can we expect to get a cordial wel come when we com to talk with Canadians on cooperative devel opment of tb resource of th Columbia basin? National-international: you sea bow th two ar all mixed up. You who. may be here from Se attle, let me ask you this. How large a share of your prosperity ia due to Boeing Aircraft's mili tary work Bomarc and bombers and to Bremerton Navy Yard? Nor is this fusion of international and national affairs limited . to economic and military considers' tions. The turbulence at Little Rock on what would seem to be a strictly domestic matter was re corded on the extremely sensitive racial seismographs in Asia and Africa. And any serious threat to beleaguered Israel excites the deep concern of American Zion ists. , Finally 1 want to cite one more illustration. Some months ago we drove to Banff to attend a con vention of city managers. Return ing we stopped at Calgary for lunch. My yife thought she need ed some hair nets so she shopped at th Hudson's Bay store there and bought a package. She found they were really superior, though I wouldn't know what makes a superior hair not. She tried to buy some more in our home stores but couldn't. So she sent a dollar to the Hudson's Bay store for a . fresh supply, only to get her dol lar back with the explanation that since those hair nets were made in Red Chins they could not be imported into the United States. I refer to this not to pro mote trad with Red China, but, to show how decisions on high levels hav local effects even though they be as insignificant as a lady's hair net. Today world news is local news, and local newa may " be world news. I emphasize this at the out set of my address because I think officers of chambers of commerce can no longer . take strictly parochial views on issues of the day. To be sure individual chambers represent their com- ' munitles and must represent them vigorously; but they must realize that they are part, of a , larger whole, and that there are times when national or interna-, tional consideration ar of para-: mount importance. This Issue will become concrete in the coming ,. battle over extension of th re-' dprocal trad agreement act. The President ia asking for a five year extension, with authority for tariff reductions not exceeding five per cent a year. I am not urging you to support or to op pot this legislation; but to b fully aware of its significance on the International level. I believe it was General Hancock, once a candidate for President, who called the tariff a "locnl" iasu. In many respects It has been so treated. But it ia no longer Just local. It Is also national and in ternational. This is simply on of -the facts of modern life which wa cannot ignore. -And you busi ness men dare not look at the great issues of our time solely through1 the lenses of your im mediate self Interest , , , . v. , v ,oi,t..:v.-;;.t r.,',7 . ' Now I pass to my second point, ' and it is alto of local yet national lmportancAll of you know w art commuting largt additional Official for Small Business Says Bank Loans Denied By A. ROBERT SMITH Statesman Corriiptadeat WASHINGTON, Feb. Th Small Business Administration has advised Congressman Charles Jr-; vv. tional Bank of uregon is aot rjartlrloatinf in SBA's loan pro gram ta smajl businessmen. The U.S. Na tUaal Bank and th state's smaller ' inde pendent banks A.aokrtsmMk hav not fol lowed this tarn policy, however, and hav cooperated with SBA in making small business loans, according to Wendell B. Barnes, SBA administrator. Barnes reported that Oregon banks had participated with SBA in SO S per cent of all loans ar ranged through the agency for the state's small business appli cants from 1963 through Sept. 30, 1S57. By comparison, banks in Washington state participated in S7.1 per cent of loans la that state. Nationally, banks, partici pated in M.J per cut of SBA loans, Barnes reported. , Ptrier looked Into the after receiving complaints' from "a number of small batlaett me" wkt charged thai "baaks! la Oregon ar aot doing ttelr part aad (hey point to states which d sktw that Oregon baaks ptrtleipat. far lea. than . bank ta Wathugtta or ia tae national mm tha ark.l ft,. .... Barnes wrote Porter a f ol io i: "Mala office too officer of the First National Bank have avowed tpeclfie statements bat a number of branch manager have stated orally or In letter thai the bank does aot participate at a matter of poMcy." Barnes reported that the U.S. National Bank ia "presently par- msfi ticipating" in several loans and!""1 statement. "I still others ar being discussed 'There are indications that some bank officers ar inclined to feel that their banks are taking care of the legitimate needs of their customers," the SBA bead went on. "This feeling is not shared, of course, by the bus inessmen who have been refused assistance by their banks and have come to the Small Business Administration for help. In many cases, we must also decline to make a loan for the same rea sons that the bank has given." C. B. Stephens, president of the baak participation I SBA too it not necessarily mean Ugfnl. It route well be and I think U it tulte likely-Ust mnny loan ar made by baak la Ore Son with their own faadt that la other states are shared on a par Ucipatlag bail with the SBA. That it a reflection of policy. If th riak Involved I toeh that wc can ace mottle the applicant, we prefer I handle the credit with out partfchMttoa with the SBA. Oar legal leadtag limit of i,o,. M enable m to do that la many eases, while tat other states tome of the hanks either lack the lend ing capacity or wait someone else to tkars the risk (averred." SBA compiled figures for the period 1953 through Oct. 31, 1957. which showed that 11 J loans were made to Oregon applicants! through SBA 76 direct govern-1 ment loans, 36 with some local! bank participation. The total amount of the direct government j loans was tt.494.S00. Of the loans in which banks participated with !ha. the government put up $1, 350.913 and local banks put up $41.837. Barnes said M It SBA't "de tire t earonrage maximum bank partlclpau la every ease I order to eitabllsh a sound credit relations)!) between the bank an ta sorrtwer at well at to make oar loan lands available to as maay small htMiaettet a pos sible." "It is possible," the SBA went on, "that the low rste of partici- appropriations to th national de fense. Congress has Just voted nearly a billion and a half In sup plemental appropriations mostly for missiles and defense against missiles. This precipitates the question of which shall It- be: guns aad butter or guns or butler. There is strong sentiment for "business and appropriations as usual." We must get our weap ons, but we need not suffer anv curtailment to offset that outlay! Let's run s deficit rather than do that! So we shall have demands for large appropriations for new rec lamation projects for instance, to grow more food than the mar ket now can absorb: or for in creased federal spending for pub-, He works, rivers and harbor im provements, power dams, flood control, blcier farm guarantee 1 am not debating the merits of these projects individually or as a group. I am merely pointing out the danger of unleashing Inflationary forces through unbal anced budgets. I know this is an old saw of political and economic conservatives. I jun ne of them. I think chronic and excessive borrowing whether by individuals or corporations or government is a sure road to disaster, because ultimately it destroys solvency and ruins the Te"it system. This lasu points right to local chambers of commerce. Are you going tq hammer at the doors of Congres for new or sdded funds for local projects whose benefit cost ratio offers very dubious Jus-' tiflcstion. whoae need is h no' means urgent? Wa must maintain our economic strength tc under gird our whole business and gov ernment . end miUtarv atiuctur. If untimely or improvident local demands Impair that trenfth then w weaken our nation for the International eompetitioa Into which It is bow thrust. pation in our loans In Oregon and Washington is because of th generally higher prevailing rate of interest charged oa business loans in th Northwestern part of the United 'States. A bank might prefer to make the entire loan at a prevailing rate of seven or eight per cent, for example, rather than to participate with the SBA at our maximum rate of six per cent." . J Man Kills Suitor of New Bride volved in som previous incidents. HOUSTON, Tex.. Feb. n-A Thete sources gave the white former assistant district attorney girl's nam a Frankie Gregg, killed his young bride's former ; spmr4 Hons suitor when he found them In i ' ' motel room todav. ! Reports frm th school laid Authorities charged the attor- j that a white boy later spilled soup ney, Walter C Wiebusch, 41, with on Minnie Jean in the school cafe murder and released him without ' teria and that another Nearo jlrl bond. ' ; involved in t kicking incident His attractive brunette wife in a corridor. " ' Pamela ia 17. He married her last ! There was no immediate official Nov. II after a five-month ro- confirmation, ma nee that started in a bar. A woman telephoned Little Rock The man he killed was David television station KTHV and said L. Black Jr., 23, husky former "There's a bomb in Central High Marine, and recently a salesman. ; and it s ready to go off." Then Prior Dating Mrs. Wiebusch and Black dated before her marriage, met him in the same bar. " " ' J??L IjSlL? I "" "-'"' follow - ing a spat with her husband. ' "I'll stay with him through this! In another development related if he'll have me," the wife sobbed; to the controversy ever court in police headquarters after the ordered integration at Central shooting. I High, Rep. Hays (D-Ark) coa Wiebusch refused to make s ' ferred with Gov. Orval Faubus for written statement but told police minutes on a bill Hays says and reporters: "This was hard for -be will introduce for a congres. me to take. What would any man sional atudy of school desegrega do under th circumstances?" tion "I don't blame Walter for think- Afterward. Faubus said b ing what b did," Mrs. Wiebusch thought that such a study would love him. I really caa't blame him' for what he did. but it wasn't the way it looked." rs. Wiebusch. an Ml company bookkeeper, said trouble bee a shortly before midnight when sh left the couple's apartment after an argument that began ova Wiebusch 's failure to keep a din ner date at the home of friends. She checked into a motel then went to the nearby bar. Black Joined her. "We both drank a little, then we went to my motel room." she said. Police found Black's body on the floor, fully clothed except for shoes. Five bullets had struck the 200-pound former Marine. Safety Valve rsntrlkstton ta the Safely Vara aanat ko si rue kv tha ran trlhalor. flslnt nia hit iM. Tali la neeeasarv to tnmre anrh eattrltr aa reapaoalMiM ;' Caa trlkallana ahaaM ae Hmlte Is sot Municipal Ownership To The Editor: In its editorial this (Thursday morning the Statesman speaks of n. 1 J . , : ., . j ca3y7oin-g ftTis3 years. In fact, everything con sidered, it is only substantial losses. Thus, it appears that if the company does not "hang tough." as the Statesman puts it, they will simply hang if the busi ness is continued. While it is true that tiny divi dends have been paid on the common stock from time to time, these were paid from items other thsn profits from the bus tines. Actually, the bus lines have been ' slowly committing suicide by liv ing on depreciation allowances on equipment. It is my under standing that not a single new bus has been purchased since 1951 ! This slow suicide is more clear ly evident, when one sees the hair-raising prices for new buses and equipment set off against the pitifully small sums', compara tively, acumulated through de preciation allowances on old equipment In these days of Infla tion. In conclusion, it appears that there is but one solution that will stand tM test of time. That so lution is city ownership, in which the voters and riders can have all the transportation they are willing to pay for by fares and taxes. In addition, the city will excuse-itself from heavy taxes now paid by the private com pany. Salem's problem will, soon er or later, b similar to that how coming to a head in Port-1 land. V. M. Sackett. 1310 So. Winter St Cash Is In The Bag j ,Whtn You Stll With , Classified Ads r-S-'t'i. - "all I EM 4.681V Race Incidents Mar Little Rock School Scene ' LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. I (A A series of racial incidents Was reported from integrated Central High School today; And there was another anonymous report of a bomb in the school. Supt. Virgil Blossom confirmed that be was investigating a report that a girl student struck another girl with a purse. He said on girl was white and the second Ne gro, but declined to say which on did the striking. Blossom refused to identify th students, but unofficial sources said the Negro girl was Minnie Jean Brown, who hat been in the caller hung up. I This was the latest in a aerie had of such calls, which have proved She groundless except for the finding and once of a stick of uncapped, un lasti fused dynamite in a locker. ' . . be a good thing "It might convinc th ' govern ment of the Impropriety of enter : ,i r: u -A , ;n . .. k. - ; . iirM, lllPth ment. Hays had said previously he had such a measure in mind. H has declined to disclose details. He said he would not make the pro posed bill public until It is in final form. Airline Fare ' Jump Sunday WASHINGTON, Feb. Is) A tour per coat increase in airline passenger fares, plus a tt service charge on' each ticket, will take effect at midnight Sunday oa SS major airlines, the Civil Aeronau tics Board said today. The interim fare schedules were filed with CAB yesterday by th airlines, who have applied for much larger permanent increases. A CAB spokesman said th agency, as it had indicated pre viously, "has no intention" of sus pending or blocking the temporary boast. 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