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4-(Sec I) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Sun'., Apr. 13, '58 (5refioneotatoiuau Fish Fee; No Fish A TREE DIES IN BROOKLYN "No Favor Sways Vs. i'o Fear Shall Awe." From Flrit Staitsmaa. March IS. 1851 CHARLES A, SPRAGUE, Editor & Publisher WENDELL WEBB, Managing Editor . Intend at the post office at Salem, trt.. as second class mattar under act o Congress. March J. 1(78. Published evei Church St cry morning. Business office 280 NE. Salem. Ore. Ttl. EM 4-6811 Member. Aiaxlated Press The Associated Presa Is entitled exclusively to the uie tor reproduction of all local news printed In this newspaper. Campaigning, 1958 Style Campaigning for public office in 1958 must be hard going. Candidates aren't able to miistpr. pmojili- it nnHic mootin n in ihov have to use shoe leather, travelling along Main street and going through stores and mills. The political meeting went out of style with the advent of radio and television. Folk could tit at home and listen to candid ates, and see them on TV. This was easier on the candidate and he could reach more people this way. But radio and TV costs are high, campaign funds are slow coming in, so thus far little use has been made of these means of communication. ' We even lack the former awareness of candidates through posters. The billboard law of 1955 put a crimp in tacking up placards on telephone poles and trees. Commercial boards are still available at a price. Necessity is the mother of invention how ever, and the substitute technique now is the "coffee." A friend of a candidate opens her home and invites in neighbors, mostly women, to meet him and discuss issues with him. These are proving popular, but still the great mass of voters have no direct contact with the candidate or privilege of seeing and hearing him. The chief burden then falls on the news paper. The Statesman has its "Political Par ade" wherein each candidate can speak his piece. Speeches of candidates are also report ed where they are newsworthy. Editorial recommendations will follow, but the voters still lack contact with -candidates. All in all, 'the 1958 campaign to date has been sluggish, partly because there is no spe cial personality clash among candidates, and issues, such as taxation, are by no means new. The inability of candidates to "get at" the people also makes the campaign seem dull. Unless it "warms up" and incites more public attention in the remaining weeks the primary on May loin win De poony auenaea,ana vot ers will be less informed about candidates than in all previous campaigns within our memory. rf jimmy Hoffa, the new boss of the Team sters' Union, administered trie "most unKina est cut of all" to his predecessor, Dave Beck, when he ordered Dave to turn in the limou sine furnished him by the union. Losing his free use of his union-owned house will hardly be as humiliating. Union cars proved his un doing selling them and pocketing the pro ceeds brought convictions to Dave and Dave Jr. Warm Springs Indians have exclusive right to hunt on their reservation and to fish in the streams on or bordering their reserva tion. Formerly they raised no ban against non-Indians fishing in the Deschutes which forms the eastern border of their lands, be cause few ventured into the deep canyon where it ran. Pelton dam, however, has raised the level of the water behind it, and good roads make easily accessible, the reservoir now named" Lake Simtustus after a man famed in their history. So the Indians, to maintain their legal right, plan to impose a fee of 50 cents a day for a non-Indian fam ily fishing in the lake, or $4 for a year. The State Game Commission says it will withhold stocking the lake with fish because it doesn't stock waters not open to the pub lic. Without regular fish plantings the fish ing will not be very good. It will be too bad if this new big lake isn't developed as good fishing water like Detroit lake on this side of . the mountains, ,. ft ' -sV ft- ft ft ft The story in the news of how a Vancouver, B. C, divorcee and her two children and a maid went stowaway on a ship bound for Honolulu via San Francisco, serves to draw attention to the fact that the ship, the Him alaya, is of the famous P & 0 line, long in service between London and India. Many a story and novel has embraced i F & 0 liner as part of its local color. Now P & 0 has joined with the Orient line to establish the Orient & Pacific Lines (O&F) to operate in the' Pacific. By 1960 the Lines expect to have eight luxury vessels running between Vancouver and California and Honolulu, the Orient and Australia-New Zealand. This shows refreshing optimism over the future of the steamship in competition with imminent jet planes. ft ft ft t5t ft ft- ft" To drivers of big automobiles these tiny foreign-made cars are something of a nui sance. You can't see them when they are be hind an American-made car or truck, and they sneak up from behind and streak past before you know they're around. Big car driv ers -will have to adapt their vision to these racing bugs to avoid accidents. ft ft -ft ft ft ft- - r i X9 Mmmemx - y jtjLt- 7 '''mm Billboard Battle Led By Graduate of Reed Rep. Charles Porter of the Fourth District; another of the easy spenders of federal cash, told Linn County voters that "an immediate cut in taxes would be a useful stimulus for the U. S. economy." Why not double the cut and make us all rich? Editorial Comment Anybody Home Upstairs? ' .There are times when I seriously question whe ther network officials have either (1) an under standing of their powerful effect on American e , .pongorg o the billboard By A. ROBERT SMITH 'Statesman Correspondent WASHINGTON A Reed Col lege graduate has been credited with originating and drafting the anti billboard law passed by Congress last week in the elimax of a three-year - leg islative (fight designed t o beautify Amer ica's superhigh way network. Sen. Richard Ii Neubercer (D - -Ore.) and 8mlt Sen. Thomas Kuchel (R-Calif.) ftr ft ft ft -ft 4 ft ft When Lew Wallace, Democratic candidate for governor, wasn't allowed to speak at a political meeting at Coos Bay set up for Cong. Charles Porter he declared: "This is the first insult I have had in my career as a Democrat in Oregon." We thought Lew was a tough old politico, able to take the roughing that goes with politics. Before a Porter meeting, how ever, his words would have been wasted. family life or (2) the brains to discriminate between wnat is wonnwiiue news and wnat fs merely curi ously sensational. Here is an example. On Wednesday the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors gave the okay to a live radio broadcast today of the inquest in the death of hoodlum John Stompanato. You would naturally expect that a Board of Supervisors might okay such a maudlin display, but it is inconceivable that the 'ABC network would offer it LIVE to its stations in its entirety. It is to the credit of KGO's program director Bob Cooper that he refused to clear time for this circus. Later, due to such an unprecedented demand for Los Angeles press, radio and TV coverage, the af fair was moved to larger quarters and therefore out of the jurisdiction of the L. A- Supervisors. A county judge took over, realizing the ABC net (and probably the others) was going to pump the taste less and unwholesome details into the homes of America just like a soap opera, and promptly ban ned all live broadcasts of the inquest. ' Such filmed versions of the inquest as may ap pear on TV newscasts will at least have been edit ed for good taste prior to being broadcast. (Ter rence O'Flaherty in San Francisco Chronicle.) Mighty Ford Plant Likened to Ancient Chinese Canal Works By JOSEPH ALSOP DEARBORN, Mich., In all the world, there is only one other experience to compare with a day spent at Ford's gigantic River Rouge plant. Curiously enough, it is the sight of the most ancient of the world's great irrigation systems. 1 Out of Central t. Asia, over, high i. mountains, you fly into the West ern Chinese pro vince of Sze chuan, which is as i big as many the mountain flanks, deep in their wild gorges, the Gold and many other rivers show as silver rib bons. Then, quite suddenly, the mountains endV the-rivers seem to end too, and you are flying over a wide, flat, brilliantly green plain. And again quite suddenly, the ereen plain ends, and the third of the mighty rivers of our earth, the Yangtsze, appears in another, even vaster gorge. " - It was rather more thai t.100 years age, whea a Chinese em perar lmpoaadra the rushing moontala rivers, made their wa ters flow aver the greea plain la a multitude of liff-brlnslni chan nels, and then collected the wa ters agaia to poor lata the Yaagtaze gorge for 50 or more feaeraUoas, the green plala aa aearished the people ef the sny rUd Utile villages perched apa the channel margins a people umbering 1 mlUiona at the last .... . . 1 , . . ... wno woiua not marvei at uua . wonderful work of men, which is surely the best symbol of China's glorious and immemo rial civilization. In - the same way, the Rouge plant is also a BarveJ. the work of only three generations, yet the prototype and symbol of modern America -industrialism. And in these bad times for industry, a visit to River Rouge gives almost too much food for thought. I went with an old-timer in the company, who pointed out the landmarks. There was the old executive building with the famous corner office "which we used to call the torture cham ber," because there "were some pretty painful scenes there" when Edsel Ford took over his father's desk and began his strug gle against Harry Bennett and the rest the struggle which re vivified the Ford company. There was the even more famous overpass bridge, the scene of "The Battle of the Overpass," In which Walter Hea ther's onion was effectively born. There was the immense worker's car-park, which the Russian visitor had thought a fraud. And finally, there was the Rouge plant itself the wide harbor, with Its ore-chips; the mountains ef red-stained iron ore; the blast furnaces and fnming coke ovens and power plant piercing the sky with Ha tall stacks; the glass plant and tool and die works and assembly plant and . so on seem ingly forever. Every building is close to a quarter of a mile long, and each huge space has its own sound and rhythm. The relentless, rep etitious downward push of the huge stamping presses make the rhythm of the stamping plant In the assembly plant, here is the endless, continuous, intricately planned convergence of all the finished parts that make a fin-' ished nutomombile. All are over whelming, but the most over whelming is the vast plant where Ford engines are made. This la fantastic place, with its loaf automated lines where a cylinder block, for Instance, goes la at one end In the rough and comes out at the other end machined to a tolerance of three ten-thousands of an inch. The overhead monorails that carry parts from one line to the next look like vast processions of gently agitated mobiles. In the noise and greyness, the color code strikes notes of brilliant lightness Thunderbird engines are peacock blue, for Instance, while the engines for the Ford Fairlane are jade green. And there are miracles, like the fan tasUc lathe that simultaneously machines all the many counter slanted surfaces of a crankshaft the lathe that made Chris Bowles, the young plant man ager, burst opt la admiration t" "They said It couldn't be done, but by God It was done, and I like Just looking at It." But among the miracles, there was another thing one noticed. All the men on the lines, all the men tending the machines were at least middle-aged, and some seemed almost too old for their tasks. Under the seniority sys tem, only these workers re mained; for there have been lay offs at Ford, as there have been lay-offs in all the motor com panies; and the younger men have been the first to go. It was when I noticed the young men were gone, and ascer-' tained the cause, that I first thought of the comparison be tween River Rouge and the Szechuan irrigation system. Both, in their different ways, teach what great triumps are within the range of man. But as I went through the big gates again, I could "hot help wishing that' we in America could find a way to make triumphs as placidly, fruit fully and unremittingly produc tive as the incredible maze of water-channels in the Szechuan plain. Copyright ISM Kew York Herald Tnbunt lac control law which Congress has just passed, but Neuberger says the credit should go to Hans Llnde, his legislative assistant. Linde said he suggested the idea to Neuberger shortly after the senator came to Washington when the Eisenhower administra tion was preparing to recommend a long-range highway program. "I always disliked the " "darn billboards," Linde explained, "and I knew that Dick had op posed them when he was in the state legislature." Linde drafted the first billboard control bill during the 84th Con gress as Neuberger announced he would seek to ban signboards on the new Interstate highway sys tem. This touched off one of the rnajor backstage battles of Con gress in the past several years. Advertising agencies, sign painters unions and businesses who wanted to utilize roadside space for' ads employed experi enced lobbyists, financed with ' what was reported to be a $300, 000 war chest, to fight the Neu berger proposal. At stake was the billboard business which last year Involved ads costing an estimated $200,000,000. Billboard bans gradually picked up wide public support. The American Automobile Association, Garden Clubs and other conser vation groups, plus many news papers, came out for signboard controls. Linde's original draft got emas culated in the Senate Public Works Committee when the big highway bill was approved in 1956, then got killed outright on the Senate floor. Last year he was back with a new version, which lost by one vote in com mittee. The tide began to turn early this year when Sen. Kuchel, who had opposed it last year, an nounced he would now favor the idea. Linde and' Kuchel's assis tant got together and drafted a version both senators later agreed to, with a few modifications, and the successful drive to put it across began once more. Sen. Robert S. Kerr (D-Okla.) led the fight against the ban but lost to the Neuberger-Kuchel al liance by a vote of 47-41. Bill board controls drew support from a bipartisan group, 24 Democrats and 23 Republicans. The House subsequently went along by an overwhelming vote on the even of the spring recess. The appeal of the billboard con trol provision In the highway act was that it leaves the ultimate decision on the issue up to the states but offers financial in ducements to enter Into antl-bill-board agreements. There is no way of knowing Just how much Oregon might get, for, she would have to apply for her bonus on the cost of that portion of the federal aid highway system cov ered by billboard controls. That is, the state would not have Jur isdiction to control signboards ia some areas,' such as within the limits ef incorporated towns and cities,. so m bonus money would apply to the cost of that portion of the new highways running through towns where signs were allowed. The law allows a bonus of. one half percent 0f the cost of a highway covered by a billboard ban. When the highway act was passed, Oregon officials estimated the state would get about $38 mil lion a year. The annual bonus of that total amount would be $190,000. In addition, if the state pur chases from the owners of land adjoining the new highways their rights to lease space, to signboard companies, this cost can be' add ed to the highway construction' costs of which the government pays its share. : Not all signs -would be out lawed. Those allowed would in clude official notices or direction al signs; signs advertising prop erty on which they are located for sale or lease; signs advertis ing businesses along the road, so long as they are not larger than ,500 square inches and located within 12 miles of the business; other signs sanctioned by state law not In violation of the Intent of the anti-billboard act Linde said one of the hopes of the plan's sponsors was that the states would use the bonus money for roadside development. He pointed out that one feature in sisted on by Neuberger was that when states present billboard con trol agreements to the Commerce Department to collect their bonus payments, the agreements may include "provisions for preserva tion of natural beauty, prevention of erosion, landscaping, reforesta tion, development of viewpoints for scenic attractions that are ac cessible to the public withou charge and the erection of mark ers, signs or plaques, and devel opment of areas in appreciation of sites of historical significance." So, added Linde, a Reed gradu ate in 1947, the act should have these positive benefits and not simply be a negative act to out law signboards. ' Time Flies: (CcnUnueu t:om Page 1.1 government buildings and church es decorating the fringes, make the city core come alive. Shop ping centers are practical too, providing neighborhoods with con venient facilities: parking, acces sibility, self-service. But-they are scattered around the urbanized area, and are not a substitute for the city core. hi i The difficulty lies in this, that the older parts of cities were con structed in the horse-and-buggy. wagon and streetcar days. They nave to be rebuilt for the motor car age; and that costs money, Complicating also is the multiple ownership of lands in the old city core. Right after the war a Port land firm presented plans for a complete restoration of North Commercial street in Salem. It was never put into effect (save as individuals ' improved- their 'properties) the many owners of property failed to agree on any plan. Salem'has been pretty fortunate in averting too wide a spread of Its city center. The first store. established by Thomas Cox, was on the corner just north of Mar ion Hotel, now the site of the new All State Insurance building. In the intervening century and a decade the retail center didn't move very far or very fast, first to Commercial street, north of State; then to Liberty. State. Court and High streets. The new Meier & Frank building is a few mocks north, but still within an enlarged core. Public buildings and Willson park articulate nice ly as a civic center. In the view of competent au thorities Salem's most urgent need in the old city center is added parking space. Various plans have been proposed, and some of them surely will come to fruition they will if property owners are aware of the erosion of values in urban decadence. There seems to be -no need here for a federal project of urban renewal. The job can be done here if the persons most vitally interested will unite on some good plan of action. New Jersey to Pick Candidates For U.S. Senate By MEYER LURIE NEWARK, N. J. OrV-New Jer sey voters pick' Republican and Democratic U. S. Senate candi dates Tuesday after a quiet cam paign in which the citizens ap peared apathetic and the six as pirants uttered very few unkind words about each other. . The Only headline-worthy rum ble in an otherwise uneventful pri mary campaign came this week when both the State CIO and the State AFL Council broke prece dent by endorsing a candidate. The labor groups, which are nom inally neutral during- a primary, swung behind Majror John J. Grogan of Hoboken, the second- seeded Democrat." " Meyner's Choice Former Congressman Harrison A. Willliams Jr., 38, an attorney, is the choice of Democratic Gov. Robert B. Meyner and most State party, leaders. State Conservation Commissioner Joseph E. McLean, a former Princeton University professor, is also seeking the Democratic nomination. The contest within the GOP is between Rep. Robert W. Kean, a banker serving His ninth term in Congress, and Bernard M. Shan- ley, lawyer and former appoint ments secretary to President Ei senhower. The third Republican in the field is Robert Morris, former counsel to the' Senate Internal Se curity subcommittee. Sen. Smith to Quit They are candidates for the seat to be vacated by Sen. H. Alex ander Smith, 78-year-old Republi can who is not running for re election. The Democratic race started out as a lopsided affair for Wil liams. Grogan's ace in the hole was the potent Democratic organ ization of the party's key county, Hudson, across the river from New York. . Since then Grogan has picked up party support in Camden, the biggest city in south Jersey. New Jersey also has six Dem-1 ocrauc anu one nepuDiican con gressional primary contests. The state has nine Republicans and five Democrats In the House. New Jersey has 2.800.000 eligi ble voters. Statesman Sunday Quiz A little tricky; some of these questions. The answers were all In your Statesman last week but all weren't an Page 1. So six will be a fair score, seven a good average. Tea well, you'd be quite unusual, to say the least. 1. What was jury verdict on Lana Turner's daughter? 2. In what state is President Eisenhower today? 3. What, horse beat Silky Sullivan in California? 4. When does registration for primaries close? 5. What's new record for emergency 'chute Jump? 6. What is President's one-word recession formula? 7. What city of 13,000 had ho traffic death in decade? 8. At what Midwest city did 47 die in plane crash? 9. In what two valley cities were science fairs held? 10. Son of what noted flier was fobnd dead in Texas? j (Answers on Page 5) BPA Lets Pacts For Power Line PORTLAND ( The Bonneville The 287,000Wolt line is to carry power from McNary Dam te Power Administration announced i oi i e ajaw m t i awaru aauiruay ui fi Souttwest WegOnT miles of the McNary-Alvey power The contracts went to Parker line. ISchram Co., Portland. From The Statesman Files 10 Years Ago Apr. 13, IMS Two boys and a girl, all with in five minutes, were added to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Rob ert H. Walkup, 520 Wayne Drive, Walkup is an employe of the Mc Donald Candy Co. Bank clearings in Salem dur ing the first quarter of 1948 reached $164,386,000, compared with $150,680,000 during a similar period of 1947. 25 Years Ago Apr. 13, 1933 Members of the 1909 state bas- the Ruthion Hill project of the coiumDia River Highway was witnessed by R. A. Klein, assis tant highway engineer. Four tons of powrfer were exploded, dis lodging 8,000 cubic vards of solid rock and toppling over trees 100 feet nigh. Editorially Oregon is attract ing iavorame attention all over the United States, on her' prompt ness in over-subscribing her share of the third Liberty Loan. Satellite 'Pieces' Probably Meteors, Drug Tracked Down, Blamed For One Death . NEW YORK W-More than 100 health department inspectors were called In for emergency duty Sat urday. They tracked down 1,530 bottles of Marsilid, an energizing drug, and banned them from sale. A dosage of 150 milligrams of Marsilid a day was blamed' by a San Francisco coroner's jury for the death of Mrs. Frances Simpson, 55. The New York City Health De partment continued its investiga tion of the death of Miss Irene Frank, 64, to determine if the drug contributed to her death. She died Feb. 3 in Bellevue Hospital. Hoffman Laroche, Inc., of Nutley, N.J., manufacturers of Marsilid, announced it is remov ing from the market any packages of the drug which bear labels recommeMing a dose of 150 milli grams a day. The company had reduced the recommended dosage to 50 milli grams a day, but some packages with the 150-milligram suggestion are still in circulation. These are the packages being withdrawn by Hoffman-Laroche and the ones sought by New York City health inspectors. Marsilid is sold only upon pre scription and under medical supervision. The U.S. Indian School in Phoenix, Ariz., has students from almost twenty tribes. ketball championship team of Sil- fi:: D verton, recently held a reunion. vITICIdlS RepOTl IZT- uiiEia. PORTLAND ui - Portland Z f . mpi0,hiP,0hrn moonwatchers. who thought they Z I, nT "cfJmZ; saw sPutnik orbiting in-two men: Dr Wm. Steelhammer fe j Friday night, ap- and Raymond Fisher of Port- Ha, land; Dr. Richard Ross of Salem, r smithsnninn nhr rnTrtJr1 u .AT; cials said Saturday that Sputnik and Charles Reynolds of Silver- gtill was in its expected orbit Saturday, although expected to go A former Salem youth, Eugene down Sunday. "V. Smith, is organizer of the The Portland moonwatch team "farthermost north-broadcasting Friday night reported sighting a band in the world," and in addi- reddish object moving from south tion his band is the first to tour east to northwest at 9:10 p.m., the interior of Alaska. Smith for- and then a similar object moving merly worked in the circulation on a course slightly to the east at department of The Statesman. 9:23 p.m. spumiK ii naa neen expecfd 40 Years Ago - to be sighted on a northeast to southwest course about 9:15 p.m. Apr. is. Mil but .nothing was reported at that A successful dyiuunite shot on time. Hreso n tatee raaa Phun EM 4-B811 SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier In elUes: " ' Dally 'and Sunday Si 7S per mo Daily only SI 50 per mo Sunday nnlv .. .10 week By mall Dally and Sunday (In idvanco) In Orefon . $1.75 per mo. 4.00 three mo 7.50 six mo. 13.00 year In U S outside Oreson By mail Sunday only, (in advance-1 SI 'S mo .10 week S5.20 year MEMBER Audit Bureau ot Circulation Bureau of Advertlilna ANPA Oregon Newipaper Publishers Association Advertlslns Representatives: . WARD GRIFFITH CO San Francisco Detroit WEST HOLUDAV CO. New Vork ., ...Chicago Are Your Auto iniuronci RATES TOO HIGH? 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