Page 8, Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Wed,, July M, 1948
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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
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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
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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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""mineiM,
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"NORTHWEST CORNER"
Photographs by Henry Sheldon
Introduction and Commentary by Stewart Holbtm
Now at
Rural Traffic Mishaps
Show Big May Increase
Rural traffic faMi;t;. -
of this year Increased 185 per cent
compared to May of 1947. The
Oregon State Mntnr Acmn.-.ti
presented these facts with a plea
for caution on the highways dur
ing the much-traveled summer
months.
Thirty-seven people have been
killed in rural accidents this year
compared to 18 a year ago. While
rural fatalities tnnro...j m
...... fuacw ikj per
cent, urban fatalities increased
only 25 per cent. Of the 37 deaths,
33 were on nrlmarv ni bahj
state highways.
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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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