5 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Friday, May 9, 1947
Capital Journal
SALEM, ORKGON
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Licensing Trouble
Unless the Salem Ministerial association anrl other organ
izations and individuals concerned with keeping Salem free
of the influences which breed trouble and corruption stir
themselves, the city's 15-year-old ban on pinball games and
similar graft-inviting devices will be cast aside at the next
meeting of the city council. At that time the proposed or
dinance amending the so-called Perrine ordinance will come
up on third reading and final passage carrying as sponsors
the names of five aldermen, a sufficient number to insure its
passage.
The proposal, which provides for annual distributor's
licenses of $600 each and license fees of $25 a month for each
machine operated, carries the names of Aldermen Dan J.
Fry, Claude Jorgensen, Howard Maple, R. O. Lewis and
James H. Nicholson, who estimate that the license system
would net the city at least $30,000 a year.
The proposal set forth in the ordinance bill is entirely
within the state law and conforms with the lottery provision
of the constitution, in stipulating that the only devices to be
licensed are those operated for pleasure and amusement only
and "that nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as
licensing any device prohibited by law."
.
In this regard the ordinance is patterned generally after
the. state law licensing music boxes and games of amusement
played by inserting coins in a slot. Neither the provisions of
the state law or the terms of the city ordinance which pro
hibit the licensing of any coin-in-the-slot device "which pays
the player in chips, coins, hickeys, slugs or merchandise,"
makes the machines any the less adapted to those illegal
operations. The stated ban on using them for gambling
purposes, just because it is stated, makes them none the
less susceptible to those very uses.
Police officers and others more or less familiar with pinball
games in their many variations, deny that they can be suc
cessfully operated as amusement devices alone and carry the
weight of a $25 monthly license fee. If they are to be oper
ated as money machines through the tolerance of police au
thorities, $25 a month would be like so much chicken-feed
in computing the profits of machines in good locations.
. The question to be decided at this time, however, is not
whether the devices would be operated within the law. It
is purely a question of whether or not the city wants to be
plagued with the trouble making machines and bothered
with constant rumors about "pay-offs" and speculation as to
the truth of the rumors. Or does the city prefer to be free
of mind and conscience by maintaining its absolute ban on
the trouble makers?
The tactics utilized by the interests behind the ordinance
which have been based principally upon secrecy of their
movements, have not done much to instill public confidence
in their responsibility. At noon on Wednesday sponsors for
the ordinance denied that it would be introduced at the meet
ing of the council that night. But those statements did not
prevent its introduction as rumor had predicted it would be.
Also casting suspicion on the measure is the fact that the
bill carries an emergency clause which would make it oper
ative as soon as it was passed by the council and signed by
the mayor. This, of course, was done to head off possible
use of the referendum to suspend its operation until sub
jected to a vote of the people. Without, the emergency clause
the ordinance would be subject to a referendum by any group
of citizens who could secure the signatures of approximately
1500 legal voters to. their petitions within 10 days of the
signing of the ordinance by the mayor who, under the new
form of city government, is deprived of the veto power.
Why the Newsprint Shortage
Congressional investigation of newsprint shortage under
way in Washington has revealed by the testimony presented
that while there has been an increase of about 6 percent, in
production the past year, scores of small city and country
newspapers have received less newsprint than (luring the
war years, and are in distress now. Most witnesses testified
that if the newsprint manufacturers had distributed their
increased production proportionately over all their customers
there would be no shortage now.
The increased production, along with much of the previous
output has gone into the big city newspapers, principally into
the huge Sunday editions. Most of these publications have
dropped all wartime efforts at economy, gone hog wild and
the sky is the limit in waste. Circulation and advertising
increases of large dailies and popular weekly magazines make
it obvious that the increased paper production went to organ
izations with the greatest, bargaining power and the small
papers arc holding the sack and are being slowly strangled.
As an instance of where the newsprint goes, a single issue
of the New York Sunday Times of May 3, weighed 2 pounds
and M ounces. As the Sunday Times circulation is over 825,
000 this meant a consumption of 123 tons for one paper in
one day. That is enough for 3 months of daily issues of the
capital Journal.
But tlic Times is only one of many Im-Rc newsprint consumers
and prints less Inish titan any of the others. In New York City
alone, we have similar Iuikp issues for tlic Sunday Isucs of the
Herald Tribune, with 600,0110 circulation, the .Journal and Ameri
can with 1.113.000, and the News with 4.000,000. In Chicago we
have the Herald-American Willi 1,008,000 and the Tribune will)
1,400,000. In Philadelphia, Hie Inquirer with 1,106.000, etc.
On (he Pacific coast we have Sunday turners in T.n Anooifs
the Examiner, 783,000, the Times 700,000; in San Francisco the
Examiner with 560.000, the Chronicle with 253,000; in Seattle the
fosi intelligencer, iiriiuioo, the Times, 226,000; in Portland, the
Oregonian, 237,000, the Journal with 186,000.
Enough newsprint could be saved from these Sunday issues
without injuring their popular appeal or lessening their news
value to give all the small city and country papers an ample
supply for their needs. Hut of course ninny of the paper
mills in Canada and a few in the states are owned or prac
tically owned by the big American. newspapers. It is evident
that if the monopoly tendencies of the metropolitan press is
not checked, not only will the local newspapers be squeezed
out of existence but the excess consumption so rapidly de
plete pulp wood sources that the big papers themselves
will suffer.
No one wants government control but unless there is a
voluntary control many an established newspaper will cease
publication and some big ones will be eventually included in
the list.
Animal Life
by Heck
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fiWyy AT THE LIGHTNING , BUT iiSWiJfflMiSfWvVv''
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i3 (foi sapper
By Don Upjohn
What looks like a feud may be
developing between those old
time friends, the cily and slate
police departments. We en
countered Capt. Walt Lansing of
the state police on the street to
day and Walt was looking pretty
iraie. As a rule Walt is a really
mild looking guy but when he
looks irate it is ar. irate look in
a class by itself. Walt was
carrying a yellow slip and head
ing for the city police depart
ment. "Look what liappened,"
he said as he flashed the slip.
"I put five pennies in a park
ing meter at 9:55 and I come
back to the meter at 10:45 and
find this slip and it's marked
right on there at 10:20 I was
branded a law violator." We
haven't found out how his irate
look worked on our local police
but they hadn't better go foolin'
around with Walt.
A pretty little secretary in a
local office had quite a pleasant
surprise this week. She was al
most bounced out of her desk
chair when her co-workers and
some mends stampeded nor
with a bunch of gifts and all
wishing her happiness of the big
gest anrl brightest brand. She
admitted she was glad to get the
gifts but wanted to know what
it was all about. They opined it
was a bridal shower which
amazed her as much as ever. It
then developed another young
lady who had secured a marriage
license the day before had iden
tically the same name as the re
cipient of the gifts and when the
friends of the little secretary
read about it they got busy Did
the little secretary return the
gilts when the matter was ex
plained? She did not. After all
a girl is entitled to a hope chest
isn't she. And the chances are
such a pretty little secretary
wont have to hope for long, any
way.
This Up-Side Down World
Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) C a f e
owner G. K. Theilacker was for
bidden today to stand on his
head in public to prove that
prices were topsy-turvy. Theil
acker, bitter because wholesal
ers raised prices for food the day
he cut prices. on meals, said he'd
find some other way to protest
inflationary price trends. The
restauranteur wanted to stand on
his head atop his one-story cafe
at least part of every day for a
week to tell the world that he
had done his part to meet Pres
ident Truman's appeal for price
cuts. But he attracted such
crowds the first day that police
revoked his permit to block the
sidewalk and assigned two offi
cers to make sure he stayed right
side up.
Saleslady
Mnrrisville, Pa., May fl tPi
Guild ladies of Morrisville Pres
byterian church were having
a rummage sale and church cus
todian Richard Watkins peeled
off his new topcoat to help.
But he couldn't find the coat
when the sale was over. One of
the ladies sheepishly admitted
she had sold it.
"Got a good price for it, too,"
she said.
Red Faced Chiefs
Murphysboro, 111,, May fl W)
Police Chief Clarence Ward
and Fire Chief Urha Hanson
sympathized with each other be
cause of embarrassing incidents.
While Chief Ward surveyed
traffic, a light fingered passerby
pilfered his blackjack from his
hip pocket.
Chief Hanson, demonstrating
a fire extinguisher at school,
was showered with chemicals
as a result of a corroded hose.
Nurse Will Graduate
Slayton Miss Dolores Chit
wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry F. Chitwood, 433 West
Water street, Stayton, who is a
member of the 1947 graduating
class of the Emanuel hospital
school of nursing. Portland, will
receive her diploma at the
commencement exercise to be
held in the Westminster Presby
terian church in that city, Friday
night at 8 o'clock. Miss Chit
wood graduated from Stayton
high school in 11)44.
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SAVING CENTER
Salem & West Salem
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Don Ilenririe advised us today
that he saw something corny in
our column the other night. If
it's taken him this long to find
something corny in our column
he hasn't been very observing.
Boy Hitching Ride
Falls io His Death
Astoria, May 9 (VP) Tommy
Tucker, R, hitched a ride on the
back of an earth carrier at a
grading project here, lost his
hold and fell to his death be
tween the wheels.
Harold Strasser, driver of the
bulldozer pulling the carrier,
said he had warned several boys
earlier not to ride the vehicle.
The boy was the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Tucker, Astoria.
By DeWitt MacKenzie
AP Foreign Attain Analyst)
It isn't easy for a country like
ours, which never has been hun
gry on a national scale, to un
derstand just what is meant by
the distinguished British die
tician, Dr. Franklin Bicknell,
when he states in "The Medical
Press" that "England is dying
of starvation" and that "as a
nation we must literally per
ish" unless food stocks improve.
And we don't get much help
from the British government's
estimate of the situation, which
is that despite the admittedly
short rations, the country's over
all health has been better than
before the war because of more
equitable distributions of foods.
What that means, I take it, is
that the folk who used to be
very hungry are less hungry
now, and those who once were
blessed with an abundance have
been reduced to the general
level. Anyway, the government
emphatically denies that Eng
land is starving.
Your columnist has been wat
ching this development closely,
having seen more than a little
of it at first hand, and has no
doubt that the food situation in
Britain is serious. The problem
seems to be qualitative rather
than quantitative. That is to
say, people are getting enough
bulk in their tummies without
securing the necessary nourish
ment fats and so on.
Dr. Bicknell states that the
foods available, outside of res
taurants, provide a diet of less
lhan 2.100 calories daily. He
says the average moderately
active man needs 3,000 calories,
and the average housewife 2,500
calories, daily to provide the
energy necessary for a full day's
work.
The bad effect of a diet so
short in calories is cumulative.
Healthy people can stand it for
a time, but when they get it day
after day, month after month
and year after year, as the Bri
tons have been doing since back
in war days, then health suf
fers. The awful monotony of
it is in itself a nerve breaker.
Continuation must mean a col
lapse.
The shortage of foodstuffs in
England is due to several cau
ses. For one thing she imports
the bulk of her food and there
is such a great world shortage
now that many countries are
running on dangerously low ra
tions. Then Britain, despite her
own needs, is spending some
thing like $300,000,000 this year
to help feed the inhabitants
of the British occupied zone of
Germany.
But England's shortage is due
in no small degree to the new
socialist government's austerity
program under which it is con
serving its credit abroad for the
purpose of fostering manufac
ture and trade so to overcome
the country's economic crisis.
The people are being asked to
tighten their belts in order to
save this money. '
Such spartan determination
one of the widely admired
characteristics of the British
race. However, there's a limit
to the endurance of even such
hardy folk, and its small won
der that experts like Dr. Bick
nell are warning that the time
has come to provide a better
diet.
The general public continues
to take it on the chin without
much complaint, but the drawn
faces bespeak the fierce strain.
One of the worst aspects of the
situation is that this austeriy
crusade is likely to continue for
several years. That being so the
prospects look very grim in
deed in light of Dr. Bicknell's
pronouncement.
Thus it gives to wonder whe
ther the government won't find
it necessary to sacrifice some of
its cash for food. There are
many who think this not only
would pay in the way of in
creased efficiency. It also looks
as though the government would
be daring much politically to
put the stamina of the public
to a further test of this same
austerity as regards food.
LEGAL
-lneh Portland eament concrite pave
ment thirty feet wide, in accordance with
the plana and specifications therefor
which were adopted by the common coun
cil May 7. 1847. which are now on file
in the office of the city recorder and
which hereby are made a part of this
notice.
The common council herebv derlarea Its
purpose and Intention to make the above
described Improvement by and through the
street Improvement department.
By order of the Common Council May
7, 1947:
ALFRED MUNDT. City Recorder.
Dale of first publication hereof Is
May D. ig47.
Capital Journal May 9. 10. 12, 13, 14. 1ft.
16. 17, IB, 20 and 21st. 121'
R EfilSTRA T lb N OF T RAD EM ARK
Standard Oil Company of California Is
a corporation ortanired and existing un
der the laws of the Slate of Delaware and
having a place of business at 225 Bush
Street In the City and County of San
Frnnciccn Stmt nt ratllnrnu Tl. ...,-
mark to be registered la tha representa.
tion of a King. The merchandise to ba ar-
coverc by ihc reitistranon Is: Petroleum -
a. producla derived rrom petroleum in
cluding but not limited to heating and
illuminating oils for heaters, cook stoves
and lamps, and kerosene. The corporation
has used the mark since March 20 1040
May IS. 23. 30.
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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO IMPROVE
I.VTH STREET FROM MARKET STREET
TO NORWAY STREET
Notice is hereby given that, the rommon
poiincil of the city of Salem, Oregon,
deems It neressary and expedient and
hereby dec Is res Its purpose and intention
to Improve Fifteenth street from the north
line of Market street to the south line
of Norway street. In the city of Salem,
at the expense of the abutting and adja
cent property, except the street and alley
Intersections the expense of which will
be assumed by the city of Salem, by bring
ing said portion of said street to the
established grade, constructing cement
concrete curbs, and paving said portion
of said street with a 6-inch Portland
cement concrete pavement thirty feet
wide. In Accordance with the plans and
specifications therefor which were adopted
by the common council May 7, 1047, which
are now on file In the office of the city
recorder and which by this reference
thereto are made a part hereof.
The common council hereby declares Its
purpose and Intention to make the above
described Improvement by and through the
street improvement department.
By order of the Common Council May
7, 1947:
ALFRED MUNDT. City Recorder.
Date of first publication hereof Is
May 9. 1947.
Capital Journal Mav 9, 10. 12, 13, 14. 15.
16, 17, 19, 20 and 21st. 121
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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO IMPROVE
PINE STREET FROM LAUREL AVENUE
TO MYRTLE AVENUE
Notice Is hereby given that the common
council of the city of Salem, Oregon,
deems It necessary and expedient and
hereby declares Its purpose and Intention
to Improve Pine street from the east
line of Laurel avenue to the east line
of Myrtl avenue at the expense f
the abutting and adjacent property, ox
rept the street, and alley Intersections the
expense of which will be assumed by the
city of Salem, by bringing said portion of
said street to the established grade, con
structing cement concrete curbs, and
paving said portion of said street with a
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