4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Oct. 10, 1946
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Salem's Fire Fiqhting Needs
With the nation's attention
ods of fire prevention as well
that we should pause to consider a report on Salem's pre
paredness in these respects. To assist in such a study we
have before us a report on a survey of the fire department,
its sufficiency and deficiencies as viewed from the inside by
a member of the department.
an appraisement or self-examination as it appears to Captain
Ben Faught, made at the request of Alderman Albert H.
Gille. Captain Faught discusses conditions as he sees them
from the inside with refreshing frankness.
He makes no alibi of lack of equipment, asserting that
the city "has a good supply of high grade fire fighting ap
paratus." Some of it, he concedes, should be subjected to
standard tests prescribed by the underwriters to determine
mechanical conditions. The engines on hand have a pumping
capacity of 5500 gallons of water per minute at about 120
pounds nozel pressure, and are equipped with 22 discharge
ports for two and one-half inch hose lines.
The department does not measure up to prescribed stand
ards in the matter of manpower, however. "Seven men are
required to operate each of the pumpers and an equal num
ber of officers to direct the operation of the lines, if they
are to be employed effectively," he said. For each hose line
it is generally conceded there should be at least three men,
but Salem can only muster 28 firemen to handle 22 lines of
hose under pressure.
At the time the survey was made the Salem department
was made up of 42 firemen, including an assistant chief, six
captains, one acting captain, 34 men and a crow of four to
man the first aid car. On a per capita basis, figuring one
fireman for each 650 population, the Salem department
should have at least 17 additional firemen.
Listed as the number one deficiency, allowing for no exceptions,
Is the lack of private office space for the head of the department.
This, the captain alleges, is a condition breeding friction and in
ternal discord with these results: "The chief is forced into factions
and political appeasements among officers and men in order to
hold the support of sufficient members to give him at least strength
to command. His backers change on him from time to time. He
is fortunate to go through such political changes without complete
disruption in service. No one knows Irom whom orders will come
next. . . . There is nolhiug wrong with the personnel. It is the
conditions."
Lack of proper facilities for drill and training is listed
as another deficiency, as is the absence of any program of
building inspection by officers and men. Systematic inspec
tion of all buildings except private homes is listed as an
urgent need. Lack of office space also results in the lack of
adequate records. Auxiliary physical equipment needed in
eludes modern gas masks, portable electric handsaws, fog
nozcls, augers and positive quick-type hose clamps.
There is need for coordinated study and field inspections
for both men and officers to acquaint them with lines of
travel, location of hydrants, construction and arrangement
of buildings with emphasis on entrances and exits and other
information enabling them to fight fires more intelligently.
Great stress is also laid upon the need for the organization
of a fire prevention bureau, because these bureaus are show
ing results in annual fire losses wherever they have been
established. It is the business of these bureaus to study the
physical structures a fire department is called upon to pro
tect, compel or recommend steps for the removal of fire
hazards, supervise new installations and repair of old build
ings and otherwise take such steps as arc necessary for the
prevention of fires.
While all of the recommendations contained in the report
may not meet with the full approval of other experts, on the
whole it is a comprehensive summary of conditions existing
in the Salem fire department as they are appraised by Cap
tain Faught.
"Coming of the Pond Fishes"
With the charm and poetic fancy that characterizes all of
his writing Ben Hur Lampman of the Oregonian editorial
staff has written another fine book, this time on "The Coming
of the Pond Fishes" to Oregon, just published by Binfords &
Mort, Portland, into which has gone extensive research into
fish lore and patient collecting of forgotten data.
The book is timely for if the pollution of our streams, the
erection of high dams and the destruction of irrigation
ditches continues to decimate our native trout and salmon,
the spiny ray and other imported exotic fish planted in
ponds, sloughs and lakes will furnish all the angling we will
have in the near future.
So it is well to know something ?.bout them and their
origin. After all a great many more people enjoy catching
these sluggish still water denizens than enjoy lly fishing for
leaping trout and there is no twinge of conscience in their
slaughter.
The lowly carp which nobody wants nowadays, the "catfish
of contentment" usually horned bull-heads, the lazy big
mouth bass, which makes one run when hooked and then
surrenders, the scrappy crappy, the voracious pike, the
sunfish and other importations now becoming plentiful from
pioneer planting, may offer a thrill to youth but not to
sportsmen. But Mr. Lampman's enthusiasm may make them
popular. At least they will take you out-of-doors from dingy
towns into God's country.
But Mr. Lampman makes them all interesting and allur
ing, has documented and indexed them. It is a book that
should find a place in every library, not only for its disserta
tion on fish but for its delightful literary qualities.
There are interesting, appropriate illustrations by Ralph Lee.
Boy
Loses Life in
Southern Oregon Fire
Klamath Falls, Oct. 10 W
A 10-ycar-old boy burned to
dealh in a fire which late last
night leveled the home of Sain
Wong, prosperous farmer of
Chinese descent living on the
state highway between here and
Merrill.
Jack Chinn, 10, Wong's son,
was the victim of the blaze, and
his brother, Joe, 8, was severely
burned.
H. L. McPherson, a neighbor,
said (he fire apparently broke
out in the kitchen or on the back
porch, when the family was
asleep. When he arrived, the
Wongs were excitedly carrying
out household articles and look
ing after the burned Joe In the
belief that all five children in
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OREGON
Editor and Publisher
entitled Iv the use for publication of
or utherwlse credited in this paper
focused this week upon meth
as fire fiphtine, it is pertinent
It is rather in the nature of
the house had been accounted
for. About 10 minutes later,
they suddenly discovered that
Jack was missing.
By that time, the flames were
raging through the house.
Meetings Resumed
By Amity Civic Club
Amity The Amity Commu
nity Commercial club resumed
monthly meetings at the Com
munity hall of the Methodist
church, where all meetings will
be held this winter. The women
of the church served the meals.
Guests were Mrs. George, state
president of the Parent Teach
ers association, Portland, and
Frang Fagan, superintendent of
McMinnvillc schools. Local
guests and new members, B. B.
Marsh and Raymond Stephens,
coach of the high school.
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By Don
Tnc Junction City 4-H club
lad who sold a lamb at the Pa
cific International livestock
show sale for $2175, or at the
rate of $25 per lb. of lamb plans
to use the money to assist him
with his education at Oregon
State college. A lot of us would
probably figure if we could
raise lamb that sold at the rate
of $25 a lb. we'd keep right on
raising Iambs regardless of cul
ture. As it is old Uncle Sam will
take the equivalent of a few
chops, or maybe a leg of lamb,
before the lad can salt away the
residue.
(By the Associated Prrsi)
False Alarm
Kankakee, 111., Oct. 10 VP
Two state police squad cars and
one from the Kankakee police
department threw up a barrier
on a highway and closed In on
four men.
The chase followed a report
from a nearby community that
one of the four men was car
rying a gun.
The investigating police halted
the car and found the man still
had a gun. But Ihcy discovered
it was all right. He was a
Springfield, III., detective going
to Chicago for a convention.
Boxed House
Decalur, 111., Oct. 10 W)
Glen R. Stewart ran up against
the usual problem of finding
materials when he started to
build his four-room house.
But he found a substitute for
lumber in ammunition boxes,
left-overs from the war. He
first planned to use the wood
from the boxes but later decid
ed a stronger building would
result by leaving the boxes to
gether. Hitchhiked to Prison
Lansing, Kas., Oct. 10 (P)
Two state penitentiary convicts
escaped from a work detail, hid
in a nearby woods until night
fall and then made their way
to a highwav.
They hitchhiked a ride with
the first car to approach.
Driver of the vehicle was the
Kansas state prison warden,
Robert Hudspeth.
Recognition was mutual,
Hudspeth said, and the men of
fered no resistance. Hudspeth
drove them back to Lansing
and had them confined to
maximum security cells last
night.
No Hearings Dated
On Milk Situation
Portland, Oct. 10 Wi No Im
mediate hearings arc planned
on milk prices, the slate direc
tor of agriculture said today
but the department hopes to
work out a program to increase
the fluid milk supply,
Higher prices paid by cheese
plants and creameries as well
as fewer cows were blamed for
adjustments E. L. Peterson said
he believed were necessary.
He mentioned allowing farms
that do not meet standards
although the milk meets speci
fications to sell in the retail
market as a means of increasing
the supply.
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Carl Donaugh, democratic
candidate for governor, who en
lightened the Kiwanis club
here yesterday, is international
president of the Optimists,
which no doubt is standing him
in good stead as a chap has to
be a top notch optimist to be
candidate for governor on the
democratic ticket in this state
the way folks are feeling right
now. If he'd revivify that old
slogan about a chicken in every
pot and a hunk of roast beef
on every table his optimism
might have something to work
on.
This has been declared a
national week for the physically
handicapped which is a very
good thing, but we have here
in Oregon an organization with
a Salem girl as president which
makes every week a week for
the physically handicapped, the
same being the Chin Up Club of
Oregon which issues its own
publication and spreads a lot
of cheer and help around where
it's needed. So in this national
week we extend to Beth Sell
wood and her club best wishes
for this week and every other
week and may their Oregon Bea
con continue to shine.
The president of our beloved
country seems to be chin up in
troubles these days which, how
ever, isn't an altogether unique
situation for presidents of the
United States as there have been
plenty of them the same way
plenty of times before. But
if it appears the president has
plenty of worries right now, we'
re inclined to think that they
may seem like a bed of roses
to what our new city manager
may plunk himself down amidst
when he gets to going next year.
A Woman Gripes.
(Gladys Shields in Jefferson
Review.)
If the "powers that be" would
grant each housewife a bar of
soap for so many pounds of
waste fat she were to turn in,
she might be encouraged to save
more fat. As it is, the few cents
a pound offered is little incen
tive when she can't beg or buy
a bar of soap or a box of soap
flakes anywhere. Where's the
soap the waste fat is supposed
to make? It's your riddle. It's
like being able to buy jams or
preserves at the store at 78c or
more per jar, but watching your
own fruit rot because there
wasn't enough sugar to can it.
Or, having OPA controlled
prices on meat, but no meat.
Singapore Japs to Hang
Singapore, Oct. 10 P) Ma.
Gen. Misao Otsuka and Maj.
Gen. Minoo Hidaka. judicial of
ficers during the Japanese oc
cupation of Singapore, were
among five men sentenced to
death today for atrocities in the
Outram road jail. Five of the
Japanese jail staff were given
life terms in prison and 29 others
drew terms ranging from one to
18 years.
Once every 50 minutes, on the
average, someone is burned to
death in the United States.
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By J. M. Roberts, Jr.
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
The United States delegation
to the atomic control commis
sion seems to beb in the position
sion seems to be in the position
of the man who tried to give
body's going to fall for that gag.
The spectacle of a nation lay
ing its minimum instead of max
imum demands on the confer
ence table at the outset, seeking
both to clarify the issues and
avoid haggling, apparently has
the negotiators stumped.
Diplomats don't ordinarily do
business that way. They can't
believe that there isn't a bar
gaining point somewhere, and
have spent many weary weeks
looking for it. To them, it
seems, it would have been more
"regular" for the United States
to have fixed a high, even im
possible, price on her atomic
secrets, and then begin bargain
ing. Safety at Stake
When Bernard Baruch pre
sented the United States control
plan to the atomic commission it
already had the water squeezed
out. Formulated in the light of
more information about atomic
bombs than is available to any
other country, it constituted the
greatest concession the adminis
tration felt it could make with
regard for the nation's safety
Indeed, many people familiar
with the possibilities of atomic
development fear that safety
may have been infringed upon.
But the search for bargaining
points has not been diminished
by Mr. Baruch's insistence that
the proposition before the world
is a rock-bottom one.
The Russians could hardly
have expected that their counter-proposal,
for an "honor sys
tem," would be accepted in the
light that history throws on na
tional interpretations of honor.
Bargaining Possible
The recent Mexican "ques
tion" as to whether dangerous
atomic processes could be plac
ed under international super
vision, with only "denatured"
fuels going to individual nations
for peaceful purposes, must also
be considered merely an effort
to see if there is a field for bar
gaining. The commission's
scientific report a few days be
fore on how production of
atomic power works contained
the answer to that. In working
with fissionable material there
is never any point at which it
can be said that "this is where
we split. On this hand is ma
terial which can be made into
a bomb, on the other is material
which cannot." A fixed cor
ollary of working with fission
able material for peaceful pur
poses is the by-product of Plu
tonium. With denatured mate
rial it apparently is very diffi
cult to produce enough explo
sive for bombs but that is a
matter of time and development
of processes, not of impossibil-
Safety Belt Breaks,
Climber Killed
Lester Paul Heinrichs. 26, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heinrichs
of Dallas, was killed Wednes
day at an Alder creek logging
operation near Cherryville
when his safety belt snapped
and he fell 100 feet from the tree
he was climbing. He is also
survived by two brothers and
his sister.
The shade of green in an apple
tree's leaves will determine how
red the apples will be.
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Cone Collections Needed
By Forestry Department
By Eldon Barrett
fCnltrt Prest Mtatt Correspondent)
The Oregon forestry department is in need of some of those
fabulous fellows who make small fortunes plucking produce
from berry bushes and fruit trees at- high speed. Only the
foresters want some high-ball
cone collectors.
State foresters this year had
visions of gathering enough tree
cones to obtain 400 pounds of
Douglas fir seed for re-stocking
forest nurseries. But there's
a shortage of cone pickers de
spite a tempting offer of S2
a sack for this woody form of
fruit
Squirrels Feel Shortage
As a matter of fact, the entire
fall tree seed harvest, except
for a few types, is considered
poor. Even the squirrels are
having a bad time.
Many Douglas fir cones are
wormy and unfit for use. The
Port Orford cedar seed crop in
Curry and Coos counties, larg
est producing area of this spe
cies, is described as a total
failure. And ponderosa pine
cones in eastern Oregon are
scarce and wormy.
The seed shortage is threaten
ing to hamper proposed refor
estations programs for the Til
lamook burn and other fire-devastated
areas of the state. It
also may cut down the farm
planting plan whereby farmers
are given seed to cultivate on
their lands.
Cascara Crop Good
The only bright spot in the
tree seed picture is in the cas
cara crop The department plans
to purchase the entire cascara
seed output of the Thomas Mil
ler plantation near Brownsville,
which Miller estimates will be
about 350 pounds. The seed crop
of this important drug-producing
tree was a total failure last
year, it was explained.
There will be Russian olive
seeds (or should it be pits) for
eastern Oregon nurseries in 1947
but in limited quantities. The
seed of this imported tree also
was on the shortage list last
year.
The best Douglas fir cones
are coming from the Burnt
Woods area of Lincoln county
and the Vernonia and Jewell re
gions of Columbia and Clatsop
counties, while a few Port Or
ford cedar ennps aro hpinc fath
ered in the Saddle Mt. district
of Clatsop county.
Meters Raise $2400
Albany, Oct. 10 (P) Parking
meters put $2,400 into the city
treasury last month, while mo
torists who forgot to feed the
parking gadgets paid $360 in
fines.
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Loggino Strike
Closes Mil!
Portland, Ore., Oct. 10 UP)
Negotiations between striking
CIO loggers and the lower Col
umbia operators resumed today
as saws at the big Inman-Poul-sen
lumber mill were idle in the
first shutdown for lack of logs
since the strike started 18 days
ago.
Whether other mills in the
area would follow the 400-man
Portland mill in closing was un
certain, but earlier in the strike
industry spokesmen said most
mills had a month's supply on
hand.
Inman-Poulson officials re
ported the plant would be Idle
a week even if the 5,000 loggers
settle their dispute with 60
camp operators and return to
work Monday.
The mill cuts 400,000 board
feet a day.
U.S. Commissioner George
Brewer reported the strike dis
pute arose when Deep River,
Wash., loggers refused to work
with nine non-union workers
and employers delayed signing
a new contract with rearranged
working condition clauses be
cause of the Deep River strike.
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Meat Dealers in
Protest Session l
Portland, Oct. 10 (P) A pro
test meeting of the Oregon In
dependent Meat Dealers asso
ciation will be held tonight,
when H. E. Carlson, secretary,
said he will submit to dealers
his findings in a state-wide
meat study.
Carlson said last night the
failure of meat distribution
would be cited, noting that some
butchers had "more than
enough" meat while others had
none.
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