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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 16, 1994)
DIP SJSjjOS TPCDODOffl It was ten yean ago last August 1 that the City of Salem took over the local water system from the Oregon-Washington -Water Sen ic e. company. The results of hi ten year term (less one month j hiiw in the audit report for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1945, which has JuM been completed by the state division r.f audits. This shows that the t water department nas accumu lated in the nine years, 11 months an earned surblus of $408,374. Of this sum (HI 1,508 was accrued during thje year .1944-43. These earningi have been made after allowing depre ciation of. $367,847; and, of course, after paying all operating expenses and interest bn the bonded debt. But not taxes. Tie municipally owned system pays no taxes. To get a fair comparative picture one fhould make an allowance for. taxes, which for the private company amounted to around J25.0OO a year, or $250,000 for a ten-year term. This would leave ftboujt $138,000 as net gain to the community from its purchase and operation of the water system or tibouit 75100 of one per cent per annum on its total investment of $2,200,000. The financial results would have! been much better it the city had pot made 'the investment of arouijid $l,000t000 in the ' new pipeline to Stayton island to tap a new source of supply. This has a capacity of 16,000,000 gallons daily but the city (aside from "dump" sales to the paper mill) rnly uses about ten million gal lons daily at peak. Water reve nues have increased slowly, the increase for (Continued on Editorial Page) Work Mapped On Bush Tract, Other Parks Clearing of underbrush, trim ming of the , large oak trees which were severely damaged by a sil er thaw a few years ago, and the building of footpaths probably will be the 'first work, undertaken in Bush park when the city takes possession of a portion of the 100 acre estate It is acquiring by combined purchase and gift. Park board members agreed on this at their initial meeting of the new year Tuesday in chamber of commerce rooms. They named Elizabeth Lord chairman to suc ceed Milton L. Meyers, who re mains on the board, and George H. Riches secretary for 1946; de clared themselves anxious to see the Bush property improved as i rapidly as unds are made avail able, and Usued an invitation . to the city's residents to contribute ideas for this and other park work. Grading, seeding and planting .f Pi ingle park will be under taken as soon as dirt is available, board members declared. High land park has been graded and is ready for seeding when weath er permits. In Kay park several trees have been removed and the grove judiciously thinned to per mit proper growth of big trees, Supt. Cleve W. Sihieldji. reported. The board discussed setting aside a portion of this park for picnic purposes, and Installing . of out ftoor fireplaces, tables, seats and some playground equipment. The tract at 15th and Mill streets is being cleared and will be equipped for playground pur poses, it was announced. Vatican jNewgpaper Sajs Russian? Lie VATICAN CITY, Jan. 15-;p)-the. Vatican newspaper Osserva tore Romano, replying to a Mos cow broadcast of Jan. 12 which allegedly quoted the soviet news paper Pravada to the effect that the Vatican had supported fas cist reactionaries, ; declared today that the Russian' charges were "lies and mystification." Animal Crackers e, WARREN GOODRICH- C ict Sufi Syndlrata t-i 'Votr ve taken the best cen tury of my lifer Report on Demobilization r-r ... i r V 1 - j ? V yt XT , "" l 4 i WASIIINGTON, Jan. 15. Gen. . army chief of' staff, and Adm, mander in chief, confer with Rep. military affairs committee chairman, as j armed services chiefs AP peared at library of eongresa plans. (AP Wlrephotfl: to The Statesman Discharges Slowed So j V. S. Won't 'Run Out Of A rmy Eisen hower 'Near Hysteria' Gets Blame lor Confusion; Commitments Cited Br. the Associated Press WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower quiet ed some, but not all, of the de mobilization din in congress to day by explaining that if dis charges hadn't been slowed down "we would literally have run out of army." With a manuscript and charts, the army chief of staff made these salient points in his hour-long talk before a committee investigat ing recent troop demonstrations: The war department has 6rder ed that by April 30 all enlisted men with 45 points or two and a half years service either be dis charged or aboard ship returning home. By June 30, all men with 40 points or two years of service must be out or on the way out. (The present score is 50 points or three and a half years of service). Expectations Thwarted The army found it impossible to live tup to what Eisenhower said was-the "hope" of, former chief of staff George Q. 'Marshall that two-year men would be out by March 20. , ,' "The "causef'ofconfuslon" about demobilization -are two: "rhe nation's release from the urgency of war started an emo tional wave to get men out of the army" which has reached the "proportions of near-hysteria." Foreign commitments, including maintenyice of armies of occupa tion, and the guarding and dispos al of equipment (property valued at $7,000,000,000 is in the Euro pean theater) now requires 622,000 troops in Europe, and 865,000 in the Pacific. By July 1 these re quirements will be cut to 307,000 in Europe and 375,000 In the Pa cific. These figures arc "pared down to the bone " we can function with no less." Always GI Advocate In light of this "there will no longer be any useful purpose in such demonstrations as our troops conducted during the past week in various areas of the world no disorders accompanied them. They were occasioned by home sickness." "In no question involving the GI will I ever appear except as his friend and his advocate, al Battery Plant On Schedule Time for opening of the Nation al Battery company's new West Salem plant is still indefinite, de pending upon a variety of con tributlng factors, F. H. Pelletier, district sales manager for the company, and Lee Lewis, engin eer, said in Salem on Tuesday, but work thus far has gone according to schedule. The men are expect ed to be stationed here in execu tive capacities when the plant Is completed. The problem of housing for themselves and other company representatives ' looms large Just now, they said as they discussed operational plans in Salem cham ber of commerce offices. -Local labor will be employed, they in dicated. . Violence Kreaks Out In Argentine Lockout BUENOS AIRES, Jan. 15-PF The first outbreak of violence in the three-day lockout by Argen tina's industry and commerce pro testing the government's .labor policies was reported tonight from Mercedes, where several thousand persons attacked a warehouse and a number of stores. PARK FOUNTAINS OBTAINED Six new drinking fountains have been purchased and will be in stalled in Salem city parks before summer, Me park board announc ed Tuesday. jbwlght Chester D. Elsenhower (center). Nlmlts (left), navy eom- Andrew J. May (D-Ky), house today to explain demobilization Rare Arctic Fox 1 Blamed for Fowl . I Loss at Hubbard ? MILWAUKIE, Jan. 15.-JP)-A fox identified as the rare Arc tic blue variety which has been raiding Hubbard area tur key flocks, will give rancher! ho more trouble. 1 Ralph Dimmlck trapped the animal' at a ranch east of Hub pard. Regional U. S. wildlife : biologist Stanley G. Jewett said l it probably escaped from a fox 'farm. I The Arctic blue, he said, nor mally roams cold country from the Aleutians north and across j Alaska and Canada to Labrador. 13 Miners Die i In Blast; Many e S WELCH, W. Va, Jan. 15.-MP)-A freakish mine disaster, in which the explosion force was . mostly spent in wrecking equipment, tor day killed 13 men and injured 36 others from a total crew of 287 underground. I Out of the Havaco No. 9 mine near Welch came 254 miners la one of the most amazing escape in West Virginia mining history, Because the force of the explo sion went upward Instead of spreading out on the two levels of the 400-foot deep Havaco No. 9 shaft mine, officials said the sur vivors made the most miraculous escape from death in the history. of West Virginia coal mining.' General Manager P. P. Kerr of the New1, River and Pocahontai Consolidated Coal company! which operates Havaco, said he had no idea what caused the blast which damaged above ground buildings! as far as 1,000 feet away. .. Minor Outbreaks Provide Active Day for Firemen As regularly as the clock chim ed, city firemen responded to minor fire calls Tuesday morning; At 8:20 ajn. they went to 520 E st, where a chimney was blaz ing. At 9:20, they were called to a basement sawdust blaze at 375 N: 18th stT At 10:25 another chimney fire drew them to 140 N.: Cottage st A smoking furnace in the Me Gilchrist building took their at tention at 12:20 p.m., and at 6:40 p.m. they put out the most dam aging blaze of the day a wal and roof fire at 494 University" st.i where the loss was estimated at $50 to 360. More Escap Elmer Lorence of Silverton Elected by Livestock Group ByjLlllle Madsen . ' Farm Editor. The Statesman Elmer Lorence, Silverton, was re-elected president of the Mar ion; County Livestock association at Its annual meeting Tuesday at the Salem chamber of commerce rooms. Claude Steusloff, Salem, was elected vice president; secre tary, Ben Newell; director, Eldon Watts, Silverton. Resolutions, presented by Lou is Hennis, chairman oilhe com mittee, were adopted opposing free trade, "d favoring the state veterinarian's office inspecting livestock to be shipped to out-of-state buyers, the lowering of pri ces j on consumer goods rather than Increasing wages, the reseed ing of logged over land to grass as part of the reforestation pro gram, and la full time predatory trapper for Marion county. Plans also were completed-for NINETY-FIFTH YEAR 10 PAGES Salem. Oregon. Wednesday Kiiumel Attacks 'Secrecy' Vital Information Withheld, Naval Officer Declares WASHINGTON, ! Jan. 15-WV Rear. Admiral Husband E. Kim mel asserted today that Washing ton had Information pointing to both the time and place of Ja pan's 1941 Pearl Harbor attack but withheld it from him, the Pa cific fleet commander. Had he known What Washing ton knew, Klmmet told the senate-house investigating commit tee, he would have ambushed at sea the Japanese task force whose planes bombed andjbumed eight battleships and 10 lesser craft in a surprise raid on their Hawaiian otiiiKtPoira ' CtllttlVl dSV Kimmei, silent for lour years, told his side of the Pearl Harbor story in public for the first time. His testimony of previous inves tigations had been secret. Told by Chairman Darkley (D Ky) to go ahead in his own fash ion, Kimmel read a 25,000-word statement. AV its outset, he said he would "describe how the Pacific fleet was deprived of a lighting chance to avert the disaster of Dec. ,7, 1941, because the navy depart ment withheld information which indicated the probability of an at tack at Pearl Harbor at the time it came." He said intercepted and decoded Japanese military met sages from September 24 to Dec. 7, concerning ship move ments and berthings in. Hawaii, all pointed to Pearl Harbor as the objective of an attack. Annual Meet Of Red Cross Set on Feb. 22 . Tentative date for the annual meeting 1 the Marlon county chapter, American Red Cross, has been announced for the eve ning of Friday, February 22. The annual meeting is open to all members of the Red- Cross, in cluding all who contribute to the organization. New officers will be chosen and reports given. David Wright, W. L. Phillips, and E. J. Sccllars, all of Salem, Ronald Jones of Brooks, and Ray Giatt of Woodburn comprise the nominating committee as an nounced by Justice George Ross man, chapter chairman. At the board session this week, further plans were talked for the annual Red Cross fund campaign to open March 1, with Dr. E. E. Boring as Marion county general chairman. A visitor at the meet ing was Mrs. Alice S. Prall, spe cial field representative of the na tional Red Cross, who talked on cooperating with the Willamette university unit of the Red Cross. WATER SYSTEM PLANNED Installation of an underground sprinkler system In the north half of Willson park will be underway soon, the city park board an nounced following Its meeting Tuesday. SHIP SENDS OUT SOS BOSTON, Jan. 15P)-The Liberty transport Henry Baldwin bound for New York from Ant werp with 589 troops aboard to day sent out a distress call from 300 miles southeast of Cape Rice, Newfoundland. Marion county's first registered bred gilt sale to be held Febru ary 9, at 1 p. m. at the state fair grounds. Around 30 animals will be consigned. The Oregon Swine Breeders association will hold a meeting at 10 a. m. the same day. Dr. P. A. Loar, Silverton, open ed discussion on "the unsatisfac tory setup of the fire patrol tax." Willard Benson, Silverton, speak ing on the same subject, said that "you have to be an outlaw to get your clearings burned when they will burn. The government pays so much for clearing land but the forest patrol will not allow us to burn while the clearings can be burned." i Lorence appointed Dr. Loar,' Willard Benson and Carl Wippcr, Turner, as a committee to investi gate the possibility of getting per mits to burn logged over land at satisfactory times. OUNDBI lie Talks NEW YORK, Jan. 15. Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill answers reporters' questions on the pier here last night shortly after he and Mrs. Churchill (standing beside him) disembarked from the liner Queen Elizabeth. They left here for Florida. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman) . Butter Short Despite Use of Entire Output WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-W)-G overrun en t-owned butter desig nated as "surplus" after V-J j day is continuing to move into civilian markets, agriculture department officials said today, but it is not enough to prevent shortages. The agriculture department toss ed about 95,000,000 pounds of but ter Into a surplus pool. It was planned to make all of this avail able to civilians through regular commercial channels. But later, when production start ed falling off sharply, the war department recalled 25,000,000 pounds to assure itself supplies. As a consequence 70,000,000 pounds were sold to civilian dis tributors. Much of this found its way to civilian tables during No vember and December. Some still remains in hands of distributors to be sold this month, it was stat ed. At this time, full output is being made available to civilians. Secretary of Agriculture Ander son is urging an Immediate six-ccnt-a-pound increase in price to encourage production. TRANSPORTS ARE DELAYED SEATTLE, Jan. lMP)-Two transports which were to have docked today In the Pacific northwest were delayed by fog, the port of embarkation said to night: They were the Maui from Okinawa, docking at Tacoma, and the Aleo Polaris from Yokohama at Portland. Both are expected tomorrow. I 'Long Live America' MANILA, Jan. lS.-vVPy-ThU; is the story of an unsung American sergeant, mortally wounded by a Japanese firing squad, who cried a defiant "Long live America" before a second volley finished him. ; j It was told today at the war crimes trial of Lt Gen. Masaharu Homma because it happened when he was the conqueror and boss of the Philippines in those dark days after Corregidor fell. T'-e hero was identified only as Sgt. Isaac Landy (home town unr available), one of that thin and gallant line of Americans and Fil ipinos engulfed in a war; thrust upon the archipelago while it stood still unprepared. The narrators were the mayor and police chief of Lumbang, a village south of Manila where 140 American prisoners of war, were building bridges under the prod ding bayonets of Japanese guards. One of the prisoners got away, they related, and Landy and nine others were marched out before a firing squad to teach the rest of the prisoners "a lesson." j The volley failed to kill Landy. Struggling to his feet, the badly wounded Yank pointed- to his heart and defied the Japanese: . "Come on! Come on! Hit me here. Long live America!" ! 1651 Morning, January 16. 1946 w - Truman Tells World U. S. to Keep Control Of Pacific Outbreak of Auto Looting Disclosed On 1'olrre Keconl A marked outbieak of car loot ings had Salem polii-e doubly alerted today. Heaviest "take" was a carton said to contain $1000 worth of clothing, linens and blankets, which was removed from the car of Jim Metzker, 1076 Highland ave., early Tuesday. The car was parked on the Pacific highway north of the underpass. C. II. Talmage, 60 Duncan ave., lost two robes and a pair of gloves from his car at the VFW hall on Tuesday night. A hat and rain coat were taken irom the car of Dean Trumbo, route 7, box 392, early Tuesday while it was at 742 N. Cottage. Door locks on all the tars were I broken, but only one was other wise damaged. UNO Debates Atom Bomb as Peace Weapon LONDON, Jan. 15HP)-Use of atomic weapons to keep the peace was suggested to United Nations general assembly delegates today as world statesmen pleaded for rapid establishment of a commis sion to control atomic energy. Australian Navy Minister N. J. O. Makin, destined to become the first president of the all-powerful security council which will con trol the world police force, said in a statement there was "nothing in 'the nature of atomic weapons .which excludes them" from the police force arsenal. The suggestion brought a quick reply from Netherlands Prime Minister Wilhelm Schermerhorn, who asserted that a peaceful world must be built upon "moral principles," not fear. An Iranian delegate, meanwhile, told the assembly that Iran hail "refrained rather reluctantly" from asking the assembly now to consider conditions in that coun try. Cliilds to Oppose Gibson in May for Stale Senatorship Charles ; Childs, Albany, Tues day filed in the state department here for state senator; fourth dis trict, Lane and Linn counties, at the republican primary election May 17. Childs formerly served in both the state senate and house of rep resentatives. Only other filing up to this time was Joe Wilson, New port, for the republican nomina tion for state representative, Lin coin county. Present senator from the fourth district is Angus Gibson, Junction City. Successive volleys killed Landy. His and the other nine bodies were exhumed last month and re interred with military honors. Osborne Foundation Requested To Report oh Training Schools An investigation f the Oregon state training school for "boys, with particular relation to its edu cational program, housing : condi tions and correctional facilities, was ordered by the state : board of control Tuesday. The board vot ed to ask the Osborne foundation of New York City to conduct the study. The board's decision followed investigations by the Marlon coun ty grand jury, service clubs and other groups of recent whippings of two wards of the school. The Osborne foundation was recommended by Richard A. Mc Gee, superintendent of California correctional s institutions. Before it conferred with Mc Gee, the board met with a com mittee of the 1945 legislature which was assigned the task of Price 5c No. 2S3 isle Bases Nation Will Ak UNO for Exdu- sive Trusteeship WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 JV Preident Truman served notice on the world today that the Unit ed States intends to keep exclu sive control for a long time of the Pacific island bases it regards es sential for American, security. The president told his news conference this country will ak the United Nations organization for authority to establish exclu sive trusteeships over these islands, many of which were wrested from the Japanese by American forces at the cost of terrific casualties. Islands not deemed essential to American security will be turned over to the UNO and collective trusteeships probably will be es tablished over most of them,1 Mr. Truman said. The chief executive did not name the islands he regards as essential. Newsmen recalled, how ever, that the navy department filed a recommended list with a house naval subcommittee last Sept. 17. On it were such former Jap anese-owned or Japanese - con trolled islands as Tinian and Sai pan in the Marianas; I wo Jima in the Bonins, and Okinawa in the Ryukus-all scenes of bitter fight ing during the war. The discussion of the Pacific islands came when a reporter told the president the various delegations to the UNO assembly in London appeared split over the issue of trusteeships in that part of the world. Overtime Pav Limit Again Hit By High Court Reaffirming a previous decision, the state supreme court Tuesday held unconstitutional an Oregon law providing that employes' suits for overtime pay under the federal wages and hours law must be filed no more than six months after the overtime has accumulated. Justice Hall S. Lusk wrote the opinion denying a petition for re hearing; and held to the court's former ..opinion that the state Lstatute was unreasonable, indefi- nate and uncertain and that the state legislature has no authority to restrict rights granted by con gress. The original suit was filed by J. P. Fullerton against hia em ployer, the Deschutes Lumber company. Perorations to Be Held Feb. 21 VATICAN CITY, Jan. 15.-0P- Pope Pius XII will hear perora lions for the canonization of bless ed Mother Francesca Saverio Ca brini, founder of the Sacred Heart missions in America, and three other candidates for sanctification at a public consistory in St Pet. er's cathedral Feb. 21, it was an nounced today. If Mother Cabrini is canonized, she will become the first Ameri can citizen to be elevated to saint hood. She died in Chicago in 1917 providing advice concerning opera tion 61 both boys training school and the state school for girls. If the foundation agrees to con duct the investigation, the board indicated it would ask for a speedy report so that defects at the school may be corrected. REORGANIZATION OF PROGRAMS REQUESTED PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. IS.-iFy-Directon of the Oregon mental hygiene society have asked reor ganization of the state training school programs, under Governor Snell's leadership. The governor was asked to ap point "a well-qualified person" to study the situation at both train ing schools. The directors an nounced the action was motivated by recent investigations of the boys' school at Woodburn. yplFL Walkouts Involve 875,000 Ford Ups Offer; ; Fin man Hopeful Of Steel Accord Py ti. t Assoc: i'ei Pto Tnt 1.'.rpfst single work strp p.'M M'iie before the war begn rt.r,'v 1ilay with the Strike f some 2MU)00 CIO and AKL pa injfcduff workers in plant thnMfhout the country. Tr.- Mrike, directed against .'. ma.'(.: packing firms and seertl in. r ndents; involved some 13J plj.nis a ross the nation) and wsat exported lo shut off most of tr. couMry's meat supply. With last minute negotiator 'iit:-l in failure, union learfust c.Jled on CIO and AFL packing hmse woikr-rs to q'.:it their jct in v. f'port of their demands for PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. IV iT'. r a c k i n g homse markers voted uitdnlmouklr here tenlf M to strike beginning at midnight along with the industry's work er rUeuhere. AFL Botcher union spokesmen reported. The two plant of Swift 4c Co. n4 one plant of the Armour com pany are affected. The unto a reported that about H Inde pendent klauchteritif and park in notice would not be in volved. 17'j-ient an hour wage fncrer-o. The original demand wa for a 25-cent pay raise. At Washington, President Tra- man told a news conference thtro were hp plans for seizing the mit industry. An Industry source es timated that the nine big pack ing companies on the CIO r.d AFL trike list produce about 0 per tnt of the nation's meat. Has Nationwide Effect The unions called strikes agamst the Armour, Swift. W !- son, Cudahy, Kingan, and Mcr- rtll companies. The CIO unin also oroVred strike against xrm Tobin, Rath, and Cudahy Broth ers companies, and aome indepen dent packers it did not, name. These firms, with their branches extend from coast to coast. Meanwhile, a Ford Motor com pany wage increase offer v... within two rents an hour of un ion demands. The company s 1 it offered the CIO United Av. Workers a 174 cent an her pay boost but the union demand ed 19'i cents the same figure, recommended by the president 1 fact-finding board in the Gene jJ Motors strike. Hopes for Steel Accord President Truman, at the srro conference in which he mentiontd the meat strike, said he st: 1 hoped for uttlement of the na tion's biggeft threatened strike the walkout of 800,000 CIO steel workers scheduled for Monday. Mr. Truman also expressed tre hope General Motors would re consider its rejection of a fact finding' board's recommendation for a 17 4 per cent wage; boot, and added the strike would b settled now if congress had giv-n his fact-finding board legislate authority. Added to the 200,000 CIO elec trical workers who walked ; out a a nationwide electrical appliame strike, the stoppage hi the meat packing industry would boost the number, of strike idle to 875,000. The electrical workers walkout closed the country's major, sour ce! of refrigerators, wanfains rna chmes, electric ranges, radics, and light bulbs. W. H. Cowlcs, Noted Spokane Publisher, Dies SPOKANE, Wash.. Jan. 15 'P) W. H. Cowles, 79, Spokane: pub lisher whose newspapers grew (o an important position in the Pa cific northwest, died totay.i Cowles was a director of Abe As sociated Press for 33 years. Starting his publish mg career in Spokane in 1890 with the: two-month-old Spokane Spoketman, which then was losing (5000 a month, Cowles built a newspapt r industry which now has a domi nant circulation in the . "Inland Empire." 4 He published the Spokesman review, the Spokane Chronicle arid a trio of farm papers. His son, W. H. Cowles, Jr hs been directing the Spokane news papers for 10 years as general manager. j Weather ! t Max. Mtn. Rn M ; J M ' .(9 28 trar 31 - Trr sa - .e Salem Portland 49 . 43 43 Seattle . San Kranriico 40 Willamette river S 1 ft. j FORECAST (from US. weather bu( reau, McNary field, Salem): Mnrtiy cHouify today. SllRhtly warmer tern perulure. Maximum . temperatura 4$ 0ree ' j