'4 Capita! Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, Nov. 1, 1946
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PUD for Marion County
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Tuesday to participate in the regular general election, voters
of Marion county outside of Salem will cast their ballots
in a special election called to pass on the question of whether
there is to be a Peoples' Utility District carved out of the
towns and rural territory outside of Salem.
As presented to the voters the project proposes inclusion
of the entire rural area of the county and all of the 14 in
corporated towns. But no town can be forced into the district
if a majority of the townspeople voting reject the proposi
tion, and the rural area cannot be included within the district
if the rural vote gives an adverse majority. In no event can
the district be organized if a majority of all votes cast are
against the plan.
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majority of all the votes cast in the territory affected, then
with the approval of the state hydroelectric commission those
towns and other territory voting for the project could be
incorporated into the PUD. For this reason those favoring
the plan will have no assurance of how much territory it
will embrace or how many people it may serve when they
cast their ballots.
' The assessed valuation of property, rural and urban, in
cluded in the proposed district is approximately $27,300,000.
But if the project is approved by the rural voters and a
sufficient number of the incorporated towns to give it a
favorable majority ot all votes
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De created aitnougn us Dountiaries migni exienu num ihcr
amas county on the north to Linn county on the south, and
from the Willamette river eastward to the county line high
in the Cascades, without embracing more than one or two
of the incorporated towns.
With such a setup the possibility of providing electrical
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question. The very sparsencss of the population in the
territory served would preclude any reduction in rates for
electric power,
' All of the timeworn, dog-eared arguments for and against
public ownership and distribution of electricity also apply
to this district. Objections to the plan are further bolstered
by the fact that in those towns and rural communities now
served by the Portland Electric company reduced rates would
not be realized for many, many years because of the density
of population in the area served by the company, which alone
makes cheap electricity possible. To a territory as well and
as cheaply served with power as is most of Marion county,
there is no valid excuse for a PUD.
Why Russia Attacks Churchill
The reason why Stalin, Molotov and other Russian leaders
and the official Russian press center their attacks, as Hitler
before them did, on Winston Churchill as the chief war
monger and incendiary is because he alone among Allied
nnnlfPQmnn Vino Vinrl tVio pmiififra in foil tha truth ahrtuf tlio
Soviet government and point
gian foreign policy. Although Churchill is out of power in
lhfi lrnvnrnmp.nr.. hp. is rnnflerino- an pKsent.ini snrvip.p in nnf.
tne Allies on guard against appeasement. He correctly out-
. lined the situation in his recent
it. was vcwiti in miii-i s ucy
- movempnls of events than It IK
- with Hitler and his crude Nazi gang with anti-Semitism as its prin
cipal theme; wc are in the presence of something very much more
difficult to measure than what was set out so plainly in the pages
. of 'Mem Kampf.
, we are in tne presence of the
a,., inn c laimui vitiuic. iiicic tne in ur it vury auie men in xne
Kremlin who hold all Russia and more than a third of Europe in
, ineir coiurui. many stresses nnn
. vtnrmil urn U'nrlriiicr in,ni, tltn.,,
.annul vauiiiL iu imtaoi. nuni uvtiaiuns uic will lime ui lu
observe what decisions thev mav have already taken, still less can
. I attempt to foresee the lime factor in their affairs.
(" "One of our main difficulties in judging all these matters is that
.. real intercourse llnri intimnrv hrfwppn nnr mnnlp, io in nil i,tp,,l
ami fjuijju.ua, vui.v uiutii u isuuiu uva Hiia uiai n is pieveruea uy
"the Soviet government. There is none cf that free comradely
life and mixing which very soon would bring immense changes
- in the relationships of Ihose vast communities and might sweep
away suspicion wiinoul relaxing vigilance.
Despite Russia's "iron curtain" the same pressure for
Russian appeasement that the left wing groups arc exerting
flLYnillsr Rritnill'n lnhnt. untwnmanl ia hnim, a : !1., ..1 .. ..
erieu against, me I ruman-tsyrnes policies by Henry Wallace
and other left wing groupers in the United States, but it is not
getting anywhere, as the speech of U. S. Delegate Warren
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. charges showed, when he endorsed the Russian proposals for
; disarmament, but required safeguards U protect complying
states against the hazards of violation and invasion, but
; refused to indulge in recriminations such as those indulged
in by Soviet spokesmen.
A Southerner Looks at the South
The current issue of the Saturday Evening Post contains
an article entitled "Chip on Our Shoulder Down South." writ-
:: ten by llodding Carter, a southern editor who won the Pu
litzer 1!M6 prize for writing on tolerance, which asserts that
the Sou th's gradual progress toward social and economic
betterment is threatened by outside pressure, which en
dangers an increasing dangerous resentment.
i. Carter warns that the South may slip back to post-Civil
;war conditions unless legislators, individuals, and organized
"liberals" and writers engaged in a barrage against the South
change their approach." lie continues:
"These critics cannot successfully battle emotional concepts with
emotional challenges. They cannot successfully rely upon puni
tive action, federal legislation or supreme court rulings to eradi
cate cither racial prejudice or social manifestations. . . . They
should try to think in terms of amelioration rather than of Immedi
ate solution. Above all they should approach the South with
compassion, not with savage badgering of a supposedly static,
hopelessly damned and forever alien area. We southerners just
don t like that. Before the South can conquer its bigotry its
.people must be better educated, better clothed, better fed and
better paid. Before these things can come, the South must rid
itself of the economic despotism imposed bv the North's financial
hold upon capital, by patent monopolies, by tariff penalties and
the rest of the enchaining restrictions. , . ."
The writer explains that a higher income level will elimi
nate most of the frictional competition between the submar
ine! whites and the Negroes, and be translated also into
sociological and political terms. It is a slow but sure process,
contingent upon national prosperity and more equal sectional
oivisjou of national wealth.
OREGON
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cast, tne district mignt sun
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out the real objectives of Rus-
speech in the house of com-
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collective mind whose springs of
pressures, internal as well as
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By Don
From the looks of a lot of
yards and open spaces around
town and the surrounding ter
ritory today the shortage of a
certain well known tissue dur
ing the past summer was due to
hoarding of same by youngsters
for Halloween purposes.
County Commissioner Roy
Rice, one of the Better known
of the varieties of FT & BA
members, who suffered the
fracture of an upper plate the
other evening while masticat
ing his dinner, has had repairs
made on same and is now ready
to take on anything from veni
son to peanuts.
Local Inner Sanctum Mystery
There was quite a flurry at
the sheriff's office the other
evening when report came from
Fir-Crest cottages out Cherry
avenue way that the family
dog had showed up with what
appeared to be an arm bone
Novelties
(By thi AsiocUted Prus)
Almost
Payette. Idaho, Nov. 1 (Ft
Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Edwards
look a 5,000-mile honeymoon
trip to Arkansas without a trace
of car trouble.
They drove into Payette, and
Just two blocks from home
their car burned out a connect
ing rod.
Bad Start
Wendell, Idaho, Nov. 1
Clyde Peterson arose before
dawn to go deer hunting but
found that the front and back
doors couldn't be budged.
Pranksters had wound a length
of chain around the house, ef
fectively securing both doors
and scaling the windows.
After sympathetic neighbors
severed the chain with a cutting
torch, Peterson left on his hunt
ing trip. But he didn't get his
deer.
Uninvited Guest
Walla Walla. Wash., Nov. 1
IIP! Pauline, the wayward tur
tle, was home today after a
seven-day stopover at the local
postoffice while enroute to her
new owner.
Postoffice workers diligently
fed Pauline flies for a week un
til her owner turned up. Miss
Pauline Frost claimed the tur
tle, explaining that her mailman
had delivered the turtle's box
without the turtle.
Spirits
Portland, Ore., Nov. 1 W) It
was nothing but Halloween
"spirits" said police, who were
called to a residence to inves
tigate a "strange noise."
They said a cider jug had
blown up.
PUD Election Watchers
Each candidate for director in
a PUD election is entitled to
have a representative at each
polling place to challenge vot
ers, Attorney General George
Neuncr ruled for District Attor
ney George L. Anderson, Jr., of
Union county.
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powder rrz
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torf with o t pacfal powdar.
You can't via thla pewdar ot
noma... but you con ua DR.
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MOISTEN
a Itttla Dr. Lyon'i Tooth Pow
dar (n tha patm of your hand,
moiitan It with tha wat bruh
. . . than ctaon your taath. Dr.
lyon'i poJithM at It cfaoru.
After
Kerk
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AND
Supper
Upjohn
and they'd like to have one of
the sleuths come a running. Jim
Garvin, deputy sheriff, picked
up the article of mystery. It
was first submitted to Paul
Marnach, county dog expert,
while a hunt was being made
for Doc Stone, county health of
ficer. Paul wasn't certain but
he was quite sure it wasn't from
a sheep. Finally Doc Stone
was rounded up and gave the
bone a good looking over. He
then rendered his opinion, "I
don't know what it is except
I'm sure of one thing, it isn't
human." So another case is
wrapped up in the official files.
Same Situation Here
(Medford Mail-Tribune)
This is the final week of the
fall campaign, and it has been
a tame and meek affair. Candi
dates for state offices visiting
here looked wise and pleasant,
but all were in a hectic hurry to
get back to their desks at Salem
Local candidates arc few, and
have no burning issue, and are
not worrying about the church
vote, the wet vote, the dry vote,
the sinner vote, the independent
vote, or the silent vote. In the
old days candidates spent the
final week in their best suit of
clothes, quoting Scripture to the
women voters.
Not even a dark horse has
been mentioned in these parts,
not since the closing of the Port
land Meadows race track, at any
rate.
Judge George Duncan's court
room was pretty well filled
yesterday with folks who had
gathered to listen to the argu
ments in the OPA rent control
case in which lawyers argued
pro and con as to whether this
district shall or shall not have
rent control. By watching the
expressions on the faces of the
customers as the lawyers talked
you could almost tell which of
the visitors were rcntors and
which were rentees.
Limitation Put on
Argentine Newspaper
Buenos Aires. Nov. 1 (U.R)
The Argentine government is
sued a decree today banning ap
pearance of newspapers on eight
specific holidays each year, in
cluding November 7, known as
Newsboys' Day.
The decree also prohibits aft
ernoon newspapers from issu
ing special editions between 1
a.m. and 1 p.m., and morning
papers from doing so between 1
p.m. and 1 a.m. It ruled that
women and boys imder 15 will
not be permitted to sell news
papers and fixed the price at
which newspapers must be sold
to newsboys.
Previously afternoon Argen
tine newspapers have not pub
lished editions January 1 and
May 1. morning papers January
2 and May 2.
HEADQUARTERS
"Salem Model Alrplana Club
Airplane. Boats. Railroad Kill
Cherry City Model
Aircraft
21st A Market Streets
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Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powdar H I
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halp ravaal ell tha natural
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Dr. Lyon's twice each day
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- OENERATIONjSgi
By J. M. Roberts, Jr.
(AP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
The four-power foreign min
isters council, having worked
its way through some of the
European problems which re
volve around Germany, are ex
pected to get down to that ex
plosive nuclear core itself this
month.
Secretary Byrnes makes it
clear that the United States puts
immediate occupation necessi
ties ahead of final peace terms
and is calling into conference
General Clay and his civilian
adviser, Robert Murphy, who
have been running things for
us at that end.
The problems of making
peace for Germany probably
will follow closely the lines of
those already encountered
fear on all sides that one or
more of the powers will at
tempt to use Germany as a
pawn to extend selfish interests;
France's desire to take control
of the Saar and the Ruhr which
three times in 70 years provid
ed the weapons for attacks up
on her; Russia's desire to spread
communism and economic hege
mony in every area touched by
her sphere; Britain's desire to
keep Germany out of Russia's
hands and to avoid German
commercial competition; and
America's desire to stop the mil
itarism and the balancing, or
unbalancing, of power in cen
tral Europe which has drawn
her into two costly wars in 3'J
years.
France Not Committed
All of the nations except
France are more or less com
mitted to ultimate rehabilita
tion of Germany as a wholu,
with the exception of the Rus-so-Polish
fait accompli in east
ern Germany. France would
like to see the Ruhr become an
international industrial pool
largely controlled by herself,
and wants to incorporate the
Saar.
Russia would like to see the
same sort of "friendly" govern
ment in Germany as she has
established in the middle Euro
pean countries, and is working
desperately toward that end in
her own zone, both through po
litical parties and through col
lectivization of this rich agri
cultural area.
Britain is determined that this
shall not happen to Germany as
a whole, and that Germany shall
be held to a non-military eco
nomic level.
The United Stales, as evidenc
ed by its actions in its own zone,
wants the occupation continued
until denazification and demo
cratic education programs shall
have had full opportunity to do
their work, and then would like
to see Germany emerge as more
of an agricultural country, but
with industry restored as far as
possible without reviving mill'
tary potentials a whole coun
try and not a hothouse for the
seeds of war.
A demilitarized Ruhr would
thus remain an integral part of
the rcich. Some deal with
France over the Saar may not
be out of the question, however.
The end of German cartels i'
an important part of this poli
cy, accompanied by integration
of German economy into that of
Europe as a whole rather than
permitting too much competi
tion.
The present campaign for ec
onomic fusion not only of the
American and British zones, but
of all zones, is a part of this
picture. Also involved is the
American desire to be rid of an
estimated expenditure of S200,
000,000 annually for supplies in
her zones which should come
from other parts of Germany
This is the background. What
will develop out of it remains to
be seen.
If the major powers follow
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Whew! Gop
Is a Woman
Silverton, Nov. 1 Residents
of Silverton wiped mist and rain
from their collective eyes last
week. Prepared for goblins,
ghosts and other strange char
acters supposed to appear Hal
loween they were not prepared
or expecting the sight of a uni
formed woman police officer
complete with navy blue uni
form, gun and badge of officer.
It was not another Hallow
een prank they soon learned,
for the woman officer, identi
fied as Mrs. Valderia Bennett,
daughter of the J. C. Fowlers,
is a substitute city police officer,
a fact not known by many local
people. Silverton once had a
woman mayor but this is the
first sight of a woman cop.
Mrs. Bennett, who served as
a surgical technician with the
Wacs, had dyed her army uni
form regulation police blue,
added high boots and a special
rain cape to complete her uni
form. Little vandalism was report
ed, being confined chiefly to
the pushing over of a few scat
tered fences. The city provid
ed an outlet for energy by play
ing host to youngsters with a
party in the afternoon and a
dance last night for the older
ones.
Champoeg Native
Dies at Age of 80
Josephine Kerr, wife of
Thomas Kerr and daughter of
Frank VanWessenhove, one of
Oregon's pioneer families, died
Thursday afternoon at Willam
ette hospital in Newberg at the
age of 80 years. Recitation of
Rosary at 8 p.m. Friday at the
Hodson mortuary, Newberg,
with funeral mass in St. Paul's
Catholic church, St. Paul, at
9 a.m. Saturday.
"Aunt Josie" as she was
known to her many friends, was
born at Champoeg September
6, 1886. She is survived by
five children: Charles Sylvester
Kerr of St. Paul, Albert Fran
cis Kerr of Seaside; Samuel
Raymond Kerr of Salem, Mary
Louise Kerr of Aptos. Calif.,
and Agnes Loretta Kerr of
Woodburn.
Park Association
Members are Called
Woodburn The Settlcmier
Park association will meet in
the council chambers of the city
hall Friday night for the pur
pose of passing upon the appli
cation of the Business and Pro
fessional Women's club for rep
resentation on the board. All
representatives and alternates
are urged to attend.
their separate interests, during
an occupation prolonged by in
ability of the powers to agree,
the ultimate Balkanization of
what was Germany is not too
hard to envision.
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Tourist Industry
Barely Started
Spokane, Nov. 1 VP) The Pa
c i f i c northwest has "only
scratched the surface" in devel
opments of its tourist industry,
in the opinion of Art Garton,
Washington state director of in
dustrial development.
Garton told the Pacific
Northwest Tourist association
convention last night that the
tourist program should stress
the entire area rather than "top
spots where people do not learn
to know the area."
Burial in
Lee Mission
Funeral services for August
Michelsorf, former Salem shoe
maker who died at the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Devota New
ton, in Portland Wednesday will
be held from the W. T. Rigdon
chapel, Saturday afternoon at
1:30 o'clock. Rev. W. S. Fred
erick will officiate and inter
ment will be in the Lee Mission
cemetery.
A native of Denmark, Mick
clson came to Portland in 1886
and removed to Canby, Oregon,
from that city. He came to Sa
lem in 1925. Mickelson's wife,
Lillie, to whom he was married
in Ashland in 1900, died in 1939.
He was a member of the Jason
Lee Methodist church and in
later years attended the Evan
gelistic Tabernacle Assembly of
God.
Surviving besides Mrs. New
ton are another daughter, Mrs.
Ethel Walker of Providence,
R.I.; five sons, William C. Mick
elson of Albany. John F. Mick
elson of Wallingford, Conn.,
Charles P. Mickelson of Eu
gene, Milton E. Mickelson of
Modesto, Calif., and George A.
Mickelson of Oakland, Calif.;
a sister, Mrs. Carrie Thorsen of
LaCenter, Wash.; a brother,
Hans Mickelson of Denmark,
and 13 grandchildren.
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WALLPAPER, PAINT AND ROOFING
Announcement!
Gleason's Frozen Foods
and Delicatessen
We are closing out our business
effective Nov. 1
CATERING
Will be handled as usual from
195 S. 24th St.
We will open in a new location at a later dale
PHONE 25379
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Salem Firm
In Big Deal
Albany, Nov. 1 M) The mer
ger of three firms to form a new
lumber company capitalized at
$1,800,500 became known here
yesterday.
The company, The Willamette
National Lumber company, was
formed from the Corvallis Lum
ber company, the Lumber Man
agement corporation, Portland,
and the Willamette National
Lumber company, Salem. Di
rectors of the last firm, all
Portlanders, will head the new
company.
It is now constructing a $400,
000 mill at Foster, expected to
have a capacity of 160,000 board
feet a day. Timber holdings
cover 2,000,000 acres, officials
said.
The damage caused by all
types of rodents in the United
States is estimated at $500,000,
000 annually.
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