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3 Caplt al Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Mar. 27, 1947
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Riding the Gravy Wagon
Challenging the propriety, if not the authority of the legis
lature to appropriate public funds to the Pacific International
Live Stock exposition, a private corporation, the stockholders
of which were alleged to have been paid dividends out of simi
lar appropriations in the past, served to delay ways and
means committee action on a request for $105,000 of state
facing commission funds to the private show while further
information on the questionable setup was being compiled.
!. The dubious senators who sought further enlightenment
were Jones Gibson and Ellis who, despite reassurances Irom
Senator Belton who had already investigated the deal, and
said the arrangement was within the law, declared that they
would like to know why the state should spend money on
repairs to a building from which rents were collected during
the war and those rents were passed on to the stockholders
in the form of dividends while state money was used for re
pairs on the structure.
The doubters asked for more details which are herewith
supplied:
- The Pacific International Live Stock exposition of Portland
was organized In 1910 through the statewide sale of shares of
capital stock to public spirited citizens more interested in the
promotion of live stock development in the northwest than in any
prospective dividend. It was a quasi-public, non-profit organiza
tion. As the venture took form, lands were purchased and the
construction of buildings undertaken, it was found that costs would
exceed estimates and that money would have to be borrowed.
Finally private citizens in Portland were asked to subscribe to a
loan of around $200,000 or $250,000, for which the lands and
buildings posted as security. The loan was concluded and mort
gage given in 1921.
The depression following the crash of 1929 brought financial
distress to the exposition, as it did to all other enterprises, not
withstanding the state's annual contribution. In 1931 Theodore
B. Wilcox and a group of associates holders of the mortgage
bonds which had been reduced in amount to approximately $175,
000 decided to foreclose, thus freezing out the stockholders.
The decree was entered in July, 1932, and the property sold at
horirf's sain in Sentomhpr nf that vcar to the bondholders, who
!hcn became the stockholders of the new and reorganized Pacific
nternational Live Stock exposition.
i The capital stock subscribed, $176,500, was taken in payment of
the properties acquired through the foreclosure proceedings. Mr.
V'ilcox became, and still is, president of the reorganized concern,
j The fact that it had become purely a private corporation
operated for profit did not seemingly deter the operators
from presenting their usual request for $37,500 from the
legislature. Since that time the Pacific International has
iecured from the state over a period of 15 years (1932-46)
approximately $550,000. These payments have been made
with the understanding that the money was to be used for
!remiums at the stock show and for the upkeep of build
ngs, and no part of it is authorized for use in any other man
ler, not even the payment of dividends.
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A Second Walker Plan
1 It was inevitable, but from the opening day of the session
there was no doubt in the minds of competent observers that
the presence of Senator Dean Walker as chairman of the joint
ways and means committee, and with C. C. Chapman sitting
as the head of a board of tax experts, meant the ultimate
appearance of a new "Walker plan" to solve the budgetary
and interwoven financial tangle.
Yesterday such a plan made its debut not so sensational
and far reaching as the original coup engineered four years
ago by these two master minds of state financing, but one
which spares the state the necessity or. aigging up a new
source of tax revenues.
Its salient provisions are:
1. If at the beginning of the second fiscal year of the biennlum
It appears that a deficit still threatens, the board of control would
be permitted to reduce all slate salaries by five percent, thus
saving $1,250,000 in taxes. 2. The board would be empowered
to reduce budgets of all slate activities by a like amount. 3.
Transfer the tax on pinball games legally operated from the old
age pension fund lo the general fund. 4. Transfer $500,000 of the
Increased racing commission revenues to the general fund, and
as a last resort, if the tax commission finds that the foregoing
does not eliminate the deficit it is authorized to call a special
election to levy a property tax to make up the deficit, the tax to be
offset by applying income or excise tax revenues to the shortage.
In that it will in the last resort amount to the same thing
as Governor Snell proposed the application of excise tax
receipts to offset a property levy of approximately $7 mil
lion we see no great difference in the ultimate effect of the
two plans. In fact we are not at all sure but that we favor
the Snell plan over the Walker scheme as being more direct
and to the point, which is the fact that we face a shortage of
$7 million in state finances for the next two years unless
the people approve the sales tax in June, and the cigarette
tax holds up.
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ps tor Supper
By Don Upjohn
The legislature has passed a
resolution thanking the cham
ber of commerce here in Salem
for providing such good weather
during the season and for inci
dental courtesies. Maybe the le
gislature would get along bet
ter and be more blessed in its
doings if it would give thanks
occasionally to the one really
responsible for the weather in
stead of passing it over to the
chamber of commerce. And
when we're referring to the one
really responsible for the wea
ther we don't mean Table Rock
either.
Here Too, Claude
(Corvallis Gazette-Times)
A radio wiseguy commentator
says that ambition is the thing
that keeps people moving. Not
in this town the thing that
keeps people moving here is
lack of parking space.
We note i by-line story in
yesterday's Oregonian is credit
ed to "Paul Hansen," a staff cor
respondent of that paper, rather
than to Paul Hauser, who really
wrote same. But you can scar
cely blame the Oregonian for
this little slip. The legislature
has lasted so long now no won
der they've forgotten the name
ot the chap they sent up here
to cover it.
Looking for a Job?
(Ad in Shreveport (La.) Times)
Wanted: an honest man, $10,
000 a year and colonial mansion.
Must be well educated, well
spoken, courteous, energetic,
ambitious, practical but imag
inative, executive type, patrio
tic and loyal to employers, who
can be trusted with millions,
and great responsibility; to man
age the largest plantation in
South, must work hard 7 hours
a day, 6 days a week, 10 months
a year. We want a man with the
force and ability of Washington,
Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln,
Lee or Edison, the voice of
Roosevelt or Huey Long, who
has traveled Louisiana and
knows its people and trfeir
needs, and the Geography, His
tory, and Constitution of the
United States, with some exper
ience in Law and Banking. Ba
ton Rouge Boat and Yacht Club.
After reading that ad over
two or three times, doggone if
we don't half wish we lived in
the south ourself.
Looking over the raft of di
vorce complaints that come
along in a steady flow into the
county clerk's office there's one
feature which seems to run con
sistently through all of them
without variation. It is notice
able in every complaint that the
plaintiff has always been a good
and dutiful spouse, has been
true to his or her marriage
vows, treated the defendant as a
good spouse should and has al
ways been kind, considerate and
in every way a model. After
reading this for several years
through endless hundreds of di
vorce complaints we've come to
the . conclusion that the only
folks who should get married
are plaintiffs in such cases.
What a wonderful race they'd
breed if they'd just get to inter
marrying among themselves.
The Effect of the Dole
Testifying before a federal senate public lands subcommit
tee which is considering legislation designed to eventually
put Indians on the same basis as white persons, B. L. Jack
son, a full-blooded Indian from the Klamath reservation in
Oregon, said he does not believe "this is the time for the
Indians to be turned loose" on their own. He continued:
"Many Indians today do not know what self-help is. Many
feel they do not have to work. They have grown dependent
upon the government. The job is to educate them out of
that notion. I don t know how long that will take, but it
would he wrong to turn the Indians loose until that is done."
In other words, the Indians have been on government
dole so long that they have lost, if they ever had, the incen
tive for work. Before the coming of the whites, the main
work for males was fighting, hunting and fishing, the
camp drudgery, cooking, gardening and food gathering
being usually assigned to the women. When their warfare
and roaming was stopped by the whites and they were placed
on reservations and lost their hunting, Uncle Sam encour
aged farming usually on worthless lands and supplied doles
for subsistence.
Anyway Mr. Jackson sets forth a certain result of paternal
istic doles whether practiced on Indians or whites. Existence
being assured, the incentive and initiative developeuby the
spur of necessity atrophies, as the WPA and other relief
measures of the New Peal demonstrated. Many are born
lazy and will not toil unless they have to and they cannot
see why they should when security is provided without.
There is some reason to believe that ninny of the whites as
well as the Indians have grown dependent on the government.
Keyboard Burned
Off Linotype
Astoria, March 27 W) Mrs.
Arthur Dempsio, who operates
a linotype machine for the As-torian-Budget,
said it wasn't the
hot news, but a match that ignit
ed the keyboard, burning off
most of the "lower case" letter
indicators.
Mrs. Dempsey, unbumed, con
tinued to operate the machine
setting a story about a fire.
Per capita U.S. consumption
of fresh milk and cream rose
from 160 quarts a year in 1935
to 200 quarts a year In 1945.
Teamsters Plan Boycott on
Stores Selling New Orleans Milk
New Orleans, March 27 WP) New Orleanians, their milk supply
already drastically reduced by a strike of Florida parishes dairy
men, were faced today with a boycott called by officers of the
fTeamsters' Brotherhood (AFL)
against stores and other enter
prises using milk from New Or
leans dairies.
Brotherhood officers said the
boycott would affect union lo
cals in New Orleans, the state
capital' of Baton Rouge, Lake
Charles in southwest Louisiana,
and Amite and Franklinton in
the strike area.
The strike already has cut this
city's daily supply of 62,100 gal
lons of milk by 80 percent, ac
cording to an estimate of Char
les Ball, director of sanitation in
New Orleans and residents
wndcred how much greater a
cut would be effected by the
boycott of stores which normal
ly handle fresh fluid milk.
Meanwhile, despite orders to
the state police to "keep the
roads open," the striking dairy
men from the Florida parishes
(those east of the Mississippi
river) continued to halt trucks
and trains in their efforts to cut
off the supply of milk from New
Orleans.
Illinois Central train No. 3
was stopped last night at Amite
for the second time. There was
no milk aboard and the farm
ers allowed the train to proceed.
Trucks were halted there
throughout the day but none
was found to be carrying milk.
The strike was called Monday
after New Orleans dairies had
notified producers they were
cutting the price of milk with 1
four percent buttcrfat from
$5.75 per hundredweight to
$5.20. Thousands of gallons of
milk were dumped from truck
and train shipments Tuesday.
16 Oregon Fatalities
In Air Accidents
Portland, March 27 UP) Air
plane accidents so far this year
have killed 16 persons in Ore
gon twice as many as died in
the whole of 1946.
Civil aeronautics administra
tion officials said five of this
year's seven fatal accidents were
inexcusable pilot errors. They
accounted for 13 deaths.
The other two accidents ac
counted for three fatalities two
student pilots dying in a mid
air collision and an army reserve
pilot perishing in the unexplain
cd plunge of his plane into the
Columbia river.
In addition there are two per
sons missing on flights over Ore
gon. A number of minor acci
dents, on which no figures are
kept, injured others, the offi
cials said.
Novelties
Hot Copy
Clara City, Minn., March 27
A reporter for the Clara
City Herald, a weekly news
paper, telephoned Mayor John
Barney and asked, "Any news
today, Mayor?"
"Yes." shouted Barney. "Hur
ry! Call the fire department!
My house is on fire!"
The reporter relayed the re
port to the fire department and
firemen raced to Barney's home
and extinguished a blaze on the
roof.
Heated Conversation
New Philadelphia, O., March
27 Mrs. Dewey Hoover rush
ed to her telephone to summon
the fire department to her
blazing home but two women,
on the party line refused to sur
render the line.
"We've heard that one be
fore," Mrs. Hoover said one of
the women told her.
She finally got the fire de
partment but damage to the
house was estimated at $1,000,
By DeWitt MacKenzie
(AP Foreign Af fain Analyst)
If your correspondent had a
dollar for every time he has
been asked whether a major war
seems likely to grow out of the
Greco-Turkish crisis, he would
be able to retire and quit crystal
gazing.
However, while these ques
tions have kept pouring in I ve
been greatly impressed by the
absence of any expressions of
'fear" in connection with such
inquiries. My observation is that
the general public is not "afraid"
in the accepted sense of the
term.
The American people are con
fident that their country can
handle any emergency. Still,
that doesn't alter the fact that
peace loving folk have a very
natural anxiety over any possi
bility of another world conflict
General Eisenhower assures
us that no 'country at present
"would deliberately provoke
war." He warned, though, that
there always exists the possibil
ity of an incident being precipi
tated by some "immature na
tion." While the general didn't
pin this specifically to the Bal
kan imbroglio, we are safe in
assuming that it covers this sit
uation.
Troops Not Going
Washington has stated cate
gorically that America's propos
ed aid to Greece and Turkey
won't include any troops. A lot
of people, however, are wonder
ing whether Soviet Russia might
intervene with soldiers to he!o
the Greek communists over
throw the Athens government
and seize cor.trol of the country.
There's no indication thus far
that any such move by Moscow
is at all likely. On the contrary
that's about the last thing one
would expect the Soviet Union
to attempt, because it would be
an open-and-shut invitation for
world war and the signs are
that Russia definitely doesn't
want war.
If tiiat were the whole story
we could sit back and take it
easy. But there s this fly in the
ointment: Russia doesn't have to
make a direct move in order to
;et military aid in the form of
soldiers to the Greek reds. Mos
cow's satellites along the Greek
frontier Yugoslavia, Albania
and Bulgaria can take care of
that and, of course, are accused
of so doing not only by Athens
but by the United States and
Britain.
Communists Blamed
Greece says that her civil war
is being engineered and support
ed by her communistic neigh
bors. Former President Hoover
declared a couple of days ago
that a large part of the chaos in
Greece could be lifted by one
man if he were willing, and
added that Joseph Stalin is the
man.
Certainly Moscow can do any
thing it wishes with the red
states of the Balkans, for it has
them in a sack, although the fic
tion is maintained that they are
sover-ign countries. It's obvious
that if the Soviet Union wanted
to issue orders to them and then
sit t.ok anr' disclaim responsi-
ouii. couU do so. Or. as Mi
Hoover points out, Moscow could
restrain them if it wished. As
things now stand it seems likely
mat kussk will pursue the mio-
dle course of letting her dogs of
war run off the leash sufficient
ly to keep harrying the Greeks.
short of producing an open Bal
kan war.
Having said this, it must be
remarked that the danger of
smoking cigarettes in a powder
factory is -that an accident may
happen.
Parents Answer
In School Row
Warrenton, Ore., March 27 (IP)
Parents of Warrenton high
school students had an answer
today to criticism directed their
way by a state committee that
investigated the recent school
strike here.
A committee of parents, head
ed by Mrs. Lavon See, contra
dicted the Investigators' report
that Principal James E. Hatch
had not asked students to re
main in school.
The parents also demanded
an audit of the district's books
back to 1937, asserting that the
school board had allowed the
heating plant to become so run
down that students had to wear
coats in classes to keep warm.
The parents' committee, which
supported Hatch and the stu
dents during the strike, also said
Hatch had remained at the school
when the strike began and went
to the basketball tournament at
Eugene only to fulfill previous
commitments. The state investi
gators had criticised Hatch for
going to Eugene while the strike
was on.
The strike began after the
school board did not sign Hatch
for another year. The parents
group drew up a petition with
474 names, demanding removal
of the school board.
Nome Residents Like
Portland Ice Cream
Portland, Ore., March 27 U.R)
Residents of Nome, Alaska.
liked the first shipment of ice
cream flown to them by air
from Portland so well they have
placed orders for more of the
same, Ed Nye, president of the
Globe Distributing company,
said today.
Nye said that the main prob
lem found in shipping the first
300 pounds to Alaska was refri
gerating it.
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Past Noble Grand
Club Entertained
Falls City The Past Noble!
Grand club met at the country
home of Mrs. Nellie Mack of
Oak Crest park. A short busi
ness meeting was held by the
president, Mrs. John Teal, and
the rest of the evening was spent
in visiting. Refreshments were
served by the hostess to Mrs.
John Teal, Mrs. George Kltchin.
Mrs. Bill Poland, Mrs. Jessie
Moyer, Mrs. Granville Nelson,
Mrs. Chester Burbank. Mrs.
Clarence Leknert, Mrs. Fav
Frink and Mrs. Nelli Mack.
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Oct KXEEMTS today al the Capital Drat
Store end ell rood draitlita.
Measles Arrest
Nephrosis Cases
Chicago, March 27 U.R Giv
ing children the measles may
be an effective way of treating
a kidney disease sometimes suf
fered in childhood, the Ameri
can Medical association reported
today. f
Drs. Richard W. Blumberg
and Harold A. Cassady, of Cin
cinnati, reported in the Ameri
can Journal of Diseases of Chil
dren that measles arrested five
cases of nephrosis they had
studied.
Federal Aid Roads '
In County Inspected
J. F. Cameron, division main
tenance engineer for the federal
public r o a d 8 administration;
Market Road Engineer Oscar
Cutler of the state highway de
partment; his assistant, John
Cattrell; County Judge Grant
Murphy, Commiss i o n e r s Roy
Rice and E. L. Rogers and Coun
ty Engineer Hedda Swart make
up a party which is inspecting
federal aid roads in the county J
Included in the roads being
gone over are the north and
south River roads, Silvertorr'
road and South 12th street, all
on the federal secondary pro
gram. The inspection is being
made under regulations of the
public roads a d m i n 1 s t ration
which requires such a going ov
er at certain intervals on the
part of the division maintenance
engineers. While the government
furnishes money for construction
of these roads it is up to the
county to maintain them, and
the inspection is to ascertain to
what degree the maintenance
has been carried out.
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