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Page 8, Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Wed,, July M, 1948 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER publish id Every Evening ua Sunday) rditoi and pttrt.trher ahm n.v. MANAGING EDITOR .. William M. Tufmaa """o p&nyn.m w....Hocnq rrus, uniiea reM MEMBER Audit Bureau of Circulitioo Entered t the Port Office it Eugene. Oregon, u second clu matter. The Regliter-Querd'e policy Is the complete and impartial publication In Ua newa pagei of all newi and statement oa news. On this page the editors of The Reg later-Guard offer their oplnlona on events of the day and matters of Importance to the community, endeavoring to be candid but fair and helpful to the development of constructive community policy. These Few We Can Answer When the editor's away, the Mailbag fills up and overflows causing him to wish that he had tarried longer by the roaring surf or the tumbling waters of the McKenzie. How ever, on this occasion we find a few questions which we can answer. A writer who signs himself "E. C." ques tions the recent 15-day suspension of a city fireman on charges of insubordination, and the civil service commission's action sustain ing the punishment on appeal, and he argues: "The punishment for the alleged charges was - a suspension of 15 days (approximately a fine " of $115). Is this a Justified fine for such a small alleged offense when drunks, violaters of traffic laws receive smaller fines .... I'll be surprised if the. RG ever prints this". Ordinarily we disregard any such com plaints which do not carry the name and ad dress of the complainant. Comment: The firemen in question had a full, fair hear ; ing before the civil service commission, as pre . scribed by charter. : On the evidence submitted, they decided that : the punishment was warranted and not excessive. Any person who joins a fire or police depart ment must expect and accept strict disciplines and insubordination, however subtle or seemingly harmless cannot be tolerated. We wish that the punishments of civilian of ; fenders, particularly drunken drivers, were more . rigorous, but the two kinds of discipline cannot : be considered in parallel. - Mrs. W. T. Moss of Noti wants to know '. what about "that one and one-half miles of : gravelled road connecting the highways out ! on West Eleventh the road to Veneta. El- ' mira, Noti where the overhead across the : Southern Pacific Coos Bay line has remained ' uncompleted since before the war: ; Building of this much needed improvement j depends on some settlement as to what portion of ! cost shall be borne by SP. S This depends on completion of a nation-wide - agreement with American railroads association on grade separation costs generally. We have talked to R. S. Baldock, chief high- " wav engineer. rIm tn .Tnhn Parkin till feoentl.. public utilities commissioner, have suggested re hearings so that new evidence of traffic and train increase might be submitted. PUC reluctant to reopen question for various legal and technical reasons. neai puiicuuy seems to De m fact that since war federal government no longer provides any portion of-iost for grade separations, leaving It for states and railroads to fight it out. New and strong representations from Eugene and from Veneta-Elmira-Noti area recommended. Mrs. G. C. Johnson, 1074 Third Avenue West, who says she has seen Willamette street "grow from a muddy cpwpath to a beautiful modern street", wants to know why our city engineers and city manager can't ''drain the Amazon into the Millrace, only a distance of six or seven blocks". Several reasons: 1. Only the upper portion of the Amaion (roughly east of Willamette street) could possi bly be handled. 2. Peak runoff of Amazon is ahnnt l.inn .hi feet per second, about four times capacity of Mill race channel. S. Improvements would make cost of any large canal or covered tunnel prohibitive, much more costly than dredging and widening to Fernrldge reservoir or Long Tom at Cheshire. 4 West side and a huge area all the way down the Amazon to Cheshire would get little relief. . Nature did some strange things in creating the Amazon. Actually there is a low ridge between the Willamette river and the Ama zon, approximately on the main line of the Southern Pacific and t h e early railroad engineers evidently discovered that ridge and followed' it into Eugene. Furthermore, soon after getting down out of the Spencer foothills, the channel of the Amazon is actually lower than the channel of the Willamette. Where the SP's bridge crosses the Amazon on the line to Coos Bay, the'channel of the Amazon is actually 15 feet lower than the channel of the Willamette a mile away. Only practical answer is widening and dredging. Congress has now brought federal appropriations for this work almost to $400, 000. The City of Eugene has voted $400,000 bonds for its right of way costs and new brid ges. If property owners on the lower Amazon could be persuaded to participate the work could get under way. Some day that freak of nature which has made the Amazon channel lower than the Willamette channel can be turned to great advantage because unlimited water for industrial uses could easily be piped from the Willamette to the Amazon at a point near Bethel, insuring continuous flow in dry seasons. r many we nave this inquiry from Beulah Bennett, registered nurse, at Harrisburg: "Will some doctor please prove me to be T.0ung. n,the statement that 'helminthosforlum of that schlzomycetes class of fungus' Is the cause of cancer, poliomylitis, arthritis, allergies, com mon colds and other virus diseases. The parasite scab"ere"' by medical Profess'on as acarus That one we cannot answer, and we leave it gladly to the learned doctors. - "Cnnfucmn Wnna r..(..,.J.J Those European nations which are "under the guns" of Russia are in a panic over the possible results of the Berlin crisis. There is evidence in the fall of the Schuman coalition government in France over the issue of in creasing the French appropriations for mili tary defense and in the iitterv armnal f the Benelux ministers at the conference with Britain and the United States at The Hague to avoid any armed conflict with the Rus sians. Naturally the smart operators at the Krem lin have chosen this moment to offer to feed the Berliners in the blockaded zones of that city which are under French, British and American administration. And you may be sure that the agents and operatives of the Communist party have been very active in i ranee, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Apparently our American representatives have been unwilling or unable to promise the spokesmen of these little nations any very substantial military aid in event of a Rus sian surge to the west. Dispatches indicate that our representatives have held that mili tary aid would be "a matter of several years". That is not very encouraging to people who have just emereed from lone vears of Nazi occupation, although it is fairly obvious from wnat has happened in Eastern Europe that Russian and Communist domination is iust as bad as Nazi rule or worse. The little nations want us to resume "four power negotiations" (oh the fate of Ger many) regardless of the fate of Berlin. Our position has been that we will not resume four power negotiations with Russia unless Taft-Hartley Law Has Added To Maritime Labor Problems WASHINGTON (NEA) The Taft-Hartley la bor law is headed for its biggest test case yet in the current fight between seven maritime unions and the West Coast, Great Lakes, Atlantic and Gulf Coast ship operators. Principal issue is the hiring hall the place where seamen and longshoremen go to get jobs. Under labor practices now firmly established, only union members can get jobs in hiring halls because the maritime unions have all had "closed shop" contracts, and they have been running the halls. But the Taft-Hartley act outlaws the closed shop and says it's an unfair labor practice for an employer to discriminate against union members fir nnn-mnrnhnre Cn H amnlmmi.. ....... tu... ...w...uw.u. wj Eiuivjcia nuw sav liiej' cant sign renewals of their contracts which ex pired on June 15 continuing the hiring halls as they have been operated in the past without breaking the law. Five HTO nnlnne nne APT. BnJ n i I . " nnu UIIC IIIUCjJCIIUCIH maintain that this stand by the employers is a con- tcneu euurt 10 oo two tnings. rirst to do away with the hiring hall. Second to bust the closed shop at sen and nlnns the iir.tn.J.I .A4t....l... x ' i shop ' hiring of men without regard to union mem- uciauiu. Employer ship operators and shipping agents are far from united nn ,hnt thAii. t.MnH - ... v.. ....... lubu.c lining UUIItieS should be, but in general thev denv hnth th ese charges. Problem: Who Runs Hiring Halls? With regard to the first point, most employers say or until the Russians keen their treatv tiled - r wiui iunuie ana aeain u ne re- ges which give us a foothold in the capital fused to tell them where he keDt city. In other words they want appeasement jj)sthmoney' He said he told tnem lor the time being. After ransacking the house the If we have learned anything from the ex- Sunmen tied up Logsden and his . . wife mtf nn : threatened to set thp house afire on leaving. Logsden freed himself within five minutes and phoned the Clackamas County sheriff. He said he could give little description of the men who kept their faces, heads and hands covered. He be lieved two accomplices had been posted outside the house as lookouts. perience of the Hitler years, we should know rlS 'to seTthe mat mere is notning to De gained by appease ment. Also we should know bv this time that whether we have war now or later, the Unit ed States will bear most of the burdens. "Shall we let the Russians surge down through Europe and establish another Fortress IT.. .... U-11 a . ...... uuiupa, ui suaii we try 10 contain tnem and keep them from absorbing and destroying the last of our allies?" So very grave is that crisis that whatever President Truman's original motives for call ing a special session of Congress, the session is warranted now, because upon the decisions of the next few weeks the whole future may depend. If you're never able to make up your mind you really haven't much to work' with. WASHINGTON LETTER BT PETER EDSON NEA Washington Correspondent Thugs Ambush Entire Family LAKE GROVE. Ore. (U.PJ Four masked gunmen ambushed nioht plllh nwner T.nnnle T.nocrlen and members of his family at his home here early Wednesday, tied them up, threatened Logsden with torture and escaped with $2000 in cash and valuables. Logsden told police the bandits beat him about the face, held a knife to his abdomen, a revolver to his temple and, removing his shoes, threatened to burn his feet unless he told where his money was hidden. Took $2000 Logsden said the men ransacked the house and left with $1000 in cash and $1000 in jewelry. The men were discovered by Boh Loesrien. Ifi a snn when he returned home at 9:30 p.m. Tues day night and found the front door jimmied. The four men. dressed in coats and hats from the Lossrien hall rlncet an4 vnaclr. ed with handkerchiefs, tied un the boy. Next to enter the ambush was Lila Winslow, Oswego Interior decorator, who was locked in a separate room. Logsden said he and his wife, Lila, arrived home at 1:30 a.m. and were seized hv the hanrlitc ! He told police they threatened him '. WILh tnt'fttrp anri Heath if he e I 4 " 1 1 i . DOUG BRINKMAN rests from his labors in the "Iowa" number from Very Little Theater's variety show, "Stuff 'n Non sense." To relax, he surrounds himself with beauteous milkmaids Arietta Wendel, Marge Whalle.v, Gloria Chcllis, and Elmarie Wendel. The object of their affection is Ken Foull's creation, "Suziebclle." (Staff photo, Wiltshire engraving.) Fire Closes Santiam Road SALEM, Ore., (U.PA State po lice said Wednesday the North Santiam Highway near Petroit was closed because of a forest fire. District Ranger S. T. Moore said the fire still was not under control Wednesday morning. The highway was closed because of the danger of falling snags, debris and rocks. The blaze, Moore said, covered approximately 40 acres in the Wil lamette National Forest two mile west of the Detroit dam site. About 160 men were on the fir line Wednesday morning, Moore said. State police warned driver tn stay away from the area. Land Bureau Spreads Out WASHINGTON (U.R) aec rctary of Interior J. A. Krug said Wednesday that within three months he expects to have his Bu reau of Land Management decen tralized. The transfer of functions fmm Washington to six regional offices end 25 district land offices in western stales and Alaska began July 15. The decentralization was au thorized by the fiscal 1949 In terior Appropriations Bill. It Is designed to avoid delays in the consideration of public land mat ters, and to compensate for a 20 per cent cut in funds for Washing ton operations, Krug said. Negotiations Krug said field nffi ordered on July 15 to take over leases lm.ni. .i. land-use K ni me n Z 0& 'J gas ease. i ' c0l?Mli,.1 PENNY-WlsV While HouVS III II Z"". H KW I VII required. J" "HTS! Hill n,H... . Tragic Story ls Repeated DETROIT (P) Twenty-three years ago a rookie cop died in his wife's arms of a bandit's bullets. Wednesday the woman sat again in the hush of a big city hospital, holding another mnlria nnl!nama. tight as if trying to keep him from toiiowing nis lather in death. The wnman wnc nrh1taKn:Mi Mrs. Helen Kalis7aurcM AR TV... prayers she breathed softly were the same ones she said in vain a generation ago. The bov she hM thlc tima ... her son, 22-year-old natrnlman Casimer Kaliszewski, Jr. He was shot down early Wednesday by unidentified assailant a h it.iv ed an East Side beat. He was given only a slight chance to recover after receiving seven blood transfusions. YLT Entertainers Concede Hot Weather Very Little Theater fans are being treated these warm summer night to free, ice-cold punch In stead of the usual hot coffee. The community theater, which serves free refreshments during intermission, this week is pre senting a summer variety show entitled "Stuff 'N Nonsense." The show has a larra cast and runs about two hours, starting at 8:15. reservations are available at Willamette Street Market, phone 126. Jumpoff Joe Creek in southern Oregon was named when a pio neer named Joe jumped off a bank into a mountain stream for a swim. 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DlALtrS NAMI ADDRESS PHONI MONO-PAC Cn-Snlt Htnln UI S.C. MITCHELL 305 IOOF Blda. Ph. 4141 Mr. Mitchell is with J. N. TAFT and Associates of Fortland who have been serving the hard of hearing since 1934. 11 rnvy ponce. H. M. PpHrlo 1E01 Agate St., informed headquarters that lines r. the i.ni, ,.,.:,.. ...i erans housing project repeatedly have been stripped of such gar ments. But no other articles ever have been missed, Pedden aririarf Stewarti BEAUTY SHOP 2025 E. Main St. Springfield Phone 7009 UNDERCOVER MAN A thief with a flair for stealing they want to kep 'the hiring ha buV them run differently, to comnlv with the law nn B"nte-d. Wednesday by the east coast, hiring halls are now maintained hv the Unions. On the urect .nact kUnH for jobs in the hiring halls are now all union men. jointly run by unions and employers. The "dis patchers" who assign the men waiting their turns emijmyers say mat m tne luture they must maintain the hirinp halls Inct a BmnUmani nrnn are run in other industries, and that the dispatch ers should be neutral which to them means non union men. On the second point, some employers sav they are willing to make a "union shop" contract with tne maritime unions. This means that employers could hire whom they pleased, with the understand ing that all emnlnves nrnnM Inin th nntnH t it was an election in which a majority of the em ployes voted that they wished the union to repre sent them in collective bargaining. From a rtraptiral nnnrntlni, ilsnnntnt 4U! u i "'b o.i.ujuiiii, mis pre sents a number of problems in the maritime trades nui common io otner employment. Jobs are ex ceedingly irregular. Loading or unloading a ship is a matter nf Hove Reithe at P ... - - a, oca wccKS or months. Crews change constantly from voyage to '"'5C' uiiiicuiues oi noiaing elections to de- ai gaming Bcius unoer sucn conditions are obvious and could easily lead to union busting Both Sides Are Reluctant The position of emnlnvers In nnt j ..: new contracts that vio'late the Taft-Hartlev law can be appreciated. The reluctance of unions to sirn contracts that leaJ Ik..'. J..i ii , t- uctuutuun is aiso un derstandable. In this situation, it seems only fair to oaj. i mi lib laii-naruey law is certainly not helD- iniT InhAi anA nn i . v . ' ... . ., uiaiitigeiiieni reacn agreements to renew Wnrkino rnnrlifinni. ll.nl 1 . .. i i, . .. im nave uueraiea sails- factorily in the past and have become established Neither the Pnrvon , .. . .. .u.ion nui oiiuges union is in comp lance with Taft-Hartley requirements on cer ii;lCTa,tl.on that thelr offi" are not Communists. NMU is now testing this non-Communist oath sec tion of the law in the courts. CIO Marine Engineers are in compliance. Other unions involved are the independent Firemen and Oilers, AFL Electrical Workers, CIO Marine Cooks and American Radio Association. All this union politics complicates set tlement of current disputes. Another disturbing factor is a National tabor Re lations Board complaint filed by Great Lakes tan ker fleet nneratnr u.np Vib.. lu.i i-i -1- -7- .ni6o mei iiiuiiuenHnce a 5,eTlng hal1 ls vloIatlon of fair labor practice. An NLRB decision on this case may be appealed to ij, aim a unai Decision on tms phase of the law may not be made for months. This case is cited by the unions as evidence that the employers' real aim is to rub out the hiring halls. All parties are now supposed to be negotiating under an fin.ria nnliMHA ij , ..... . s Taft-Hartley law court injunction, which ends Sept. . If no settlement is reached by then. Harry BriHees save there mil! Urn - iux ..... ' .-j iT.jii l ; , . against me law and it will be a lalapaloozi. 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