'4 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, Sept. 8, 1947
Capital 6journed
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Let's Have It Over With
With the ordinarily patient public fed up with the con
troversy surrounding Salem's effort to select a type of park
ing meter which promises to give the most satisfaction in
service at the least ultimate cost, the city council will tonight
have the opportunity of settling the squabble once and for
all. The opportunity will come on the question of whether
the city is to accept for permanent installation the 800 or
more manually operated mico meters mat nave Deen on trmi
use here for the past five months.
Under the terms of its contract with the meter manufac
turers the city is required to give written notice that the
machines are unsatisfactory at least 30 days prior to the
expiration of the contract calling for six months' trial use
if the council decides the meters to be unsatisfactory. The
30-day notification period expires with tonight's council
meeting.
Failure of the council to give the company notice t- re
move the meters means the city will be stuck with the con
tract. If for no other reason than to clear the atmosphere of
suspicion and mistrust which has hovered over the council
chambers through the entire life of the new council, reflect
ing itself in the alignment of councilmen on other important
matters of public business, should be permanently removed.
That can be done only by a clear cut decision upon a meter
policy.
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After months of debate, the
4) and ordered the initial lot of meters on trial, some of the
members voting in the affirmative, explained that they had
been influenced by the apparent economy of the Mico meter.
The difference in cost of the manually operated meters
$9.50 less than that of a next favored automatic contrivance
was the deciding factor in their choice some of the coun
cilmen said.
The argument of economy has been more than offset by
the trouble experienced by the police department in keeping
the machines in operation. The chief of police recently re
ported that it requires the full time services of four mechan
ics to keep the manual meters repaired, And as many as 15
complaints a day have been received from parking motorists
who fail to get the full time they inserted coins for, the
police find in checking the particular meter in question.
Where the economy exists, with the matter of maintenance
costs as high as that, it is difficult to determine. (Water
seeping into the mechanical heads of the meters, causing
them to rust, corrode or freeze up and split in cold weather
is the principal complaint registered) .
Whether the Park-O-Meter, a fully automatic type of
meter which has very recently been installed along one block
of High street, is the best that can be had for correcting
Salem's problems remains to be seen. It is in use in a big
majority of the cities in Oregon and Washington where
climatic conditions are much the same as prevail here. Its
use for Salem was recommended by City Manager Franzen
on the basis of his experience with them in Oregon City and
after he had traveled around 1000 miles at the council's
behest to witness their performance in various Oregon and
Washington cities.
The initial cost for the meters and their installation is not
important in the economic questions to be determined. The
purchase price, as well as the installation cost, will have been
completely paid out of revenues which would not otherwise
accrue to the city when the meters are turned over. The
question for the council to determine is which meter will
give the best service at the least ultimate cost to the city.
If the council is satisfied with the performance of the
Mico meters it should accept them. If not, it should give
the company offering the next best parking device an oppor
tunity to demonstrate what their machines will do.
Retirement Age
If age justifies the retirement of public officials, it should
call for the retirement of race horses for the latter use
their lees more than their seats.
Racing at the State Fair last week were 20 thoroughbreds
with ages ranging from 11 to 16 years. In years past a
shortage of race nags justified the acceptance of such entries,
but times have changed. The Oregon Racing commission
should adopt a rule which would prevent the racing of horses
12 years and over. This is the rule in many states and
Canada..
Thoroughbreds have slender legs and the terrific pound
ing on hard tracks leave few sound at 7 years of age. At
10 years, practically all are unsound. The betting public
should not be asked to wager their money on cripples.
While these old nags are weak in their underpinnings,
they are wise to the tricks of the racing game. They
usually are away from the gate first and will run over horses
to get the rail at the first turn. Thus the young and inex-
ferienced animals are placed at a disadvantage. We saw,
ast Wednesday, a green 3-year-old go over the rail at the
turn and its rider injured, while the aged nags went on to
win.
If, as alleged, the purpose of racing is to encourage the
breeding of thoroughbreds, then it should be so conducted
as to protect green entries any give newcomers to the sport
a break. The "gyp" horsemen should no longer be permitted
to monopolize the racing events at our state and county fairs.
Thursday and Friday's racing saw spills in which a num
ber of bad legged horses were involved and in which several
horses and riders were seriously injured. Such occurrences
can and should be avoided.
Missing Planes
Figure in Search
McChord Field, Wash., Sept. 8
J.R) Army and coast guard
planes today searched for two
private planes missing in the
northwest since yesterday.
Flight service center here
Identified the rircraft as a yel
low Piper Cub flown by a Mr.
Bryan which has been missing
on a trip from Kelso to Belvue,
Wash., since its 3:15 p.m. takeoff
yesterday; and a Cessna mono
plane piloted by Sgt. Bill Snow,
McChord field, unreported since
taking off from Bremerton for
Bellingham at 4 p.m.
Two coast guard planes from
Port Angeles, Wash., left this
Editor and Publisher
entitled to the use for publication of
or otherwise credited in this papsx
council broke a tie vote (4 to
morning to search for the two
aircraft, and air rescue service
here also had assigned planes to
the search, flight service said.
The first skull of the so-called
Neanderthal man was discover
ed in 1856 in Germany.
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KEITH BROWN
LUMBER YARD
Front & Court St
Ph. 9163
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So far we haven't run across
anyone who admits losing money
the horse races last week,
they all came out ahead. But
even in the face of that happy
condition we don't look to see
the emergency board called into
action to make up a deficit on
the races.
Magazine cover girls showing
on rows on a rack at a local con
fectionery store this a. m. didn't
show enough clothing altogether
to furnish a respectable length
skirt for one of them. What with
a sharp wind blowing some drap
ery should have been provided.
Playing Safe
New York (U.fSTwo of the
biggest collectors of cigar bands
in the nation don't smoke, it was
reported at the convention of the
International Cigar Band Soc
iety. G. Budlow, West Allis,
Wis., has the largest collection,
50,000 bands, but he never
smokes. ICBS President G. A.
Greasby, Milwaukee, has 40,000
I have never had anything to
do with tobacco," Greasby said.
Rain came along and washed
Propaganda School Opened
For Key Communists
By Lyle C. Wilson
Washington, Sept. 8 u.R) American communists are back in
the world revolution groove today and have set up a special
school for key party members to
Salem Ambulance
Crashes Into Car .
A Salem ambulance crashed
into the rear of a passenger auto
mobile in Portland late Saturday
night, but the patient and the
two car passengers escaped in
jury.
Police said the ambulance pa
tient, Jesse Brosius, Salem, was
transferred to another ambu
lance and taken to Good Samari
tan hospital where attendants re
ported he suffered a fractured
skull from an earlier accident at
Stayton.
The ambulance driver was
identified as Cecil Abbot, Salem.
Novelties
Hospital Inviting
Oakland, Calif., Sept. 8 (IP)
Roger Houchins, 19, always
winds up in Jackson Lake hos
pital for the big events of his
life.
He was born there. He had
his tonsils out there and his ap
pendix out there.
Saturday, while two tonsili
tls patients groaned from ad
joining beds, he was married
there.
He and his bride, Louise
Schwatka, 18, hadn't planned a
hospital wedding. It was sched
uled for Saturday afternoon
in church.
They were on their way to
get a marriage license Friday
when Houchins collapsed on the
street. Heart trouble, said the
doctor, ordering a week's rest
in bed.
About 75 per cent of all car
thefts occur where the owner
has left his ignition keys in his
automobile.
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hours. These government findings are
incorporated in the new product
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Supper
Upjohn
our Salem Senators securely
into fourth place as the Western
International league wound up
its season. It should have started
raining a few weeks ago and the
boys would have stayed in sec
ond place.
Just as folks were beginning
to get an inkling that Christmas
isn t so far away they began re
ceiving the white slips from old
Uncle Sam reminding them that
September 15 is even nearer
which kinda takes the fun out
of thinking about Christmas.
Tonight the city council will
have to determine the vital ques
tion whether hereafter when
folks drop a nickel or a penny
into a parking meter they'll
have to turn a crank or just drop
the nickel or the penny and let
nature take its course. The town
will be all agog until this is de
cided. Our Miss Oregon succeeded in
landing a $1000 scholarship back
in Atlantic City but we'd say
from her pictures she had
plenty even without the thou
sand dollars.
pep up their propaganda. The
propaganda text book is frank in
its objectives, as this sample
from page 30 will demonstrate:
"The first thing that must be
done, the thing with which to
begin, is to form a united front,
in every district, to establish
unity of action of the workers in
every factory, in every district,
in every region, in every coun
try, all over the world. Unity of
action on a national and inter
national scale is the mighty
weapon which renders the work
ing class capable not only of
successful defense but also of
successful counter-attack against
fascism (capitalism), against the
class enemy.
Results of the teaching in the
propaganda school located in
New York are beginning to be
felt now in communist party cir
cles throughout the country. Stu
dents are Informed that commu
nist tactics and strategy now are
exactly as they were in 1935
when the communist Interna
tionale was booming the world
revolution. School graduates are
filtering back to their homes
with the gospel, ,
The party school text book is
a 10-year-old volume by Georgi
Dimitrov, former general secre
tary of the revolutionary com
munist internationale and now
prime minister of Bulgaria.
The book is "The United
Front," published by Interna
tional Publishers, New York
City. It was prepared by Dimi
trov as an attack on fascism and,
especially, upon nazi Germany.
Now by substituting "capital
ism" for "fascism" where the
word appears in the text, and
"United States for Germany,"
the communists use Dimitrov's
book as a manual for political
action in this country.
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customer! like it and
that'i the way we like it.
Over the years, it
leemi to work out pretty
well.
By DeWitt MacKenzie
(AP Foreign Afltlrs Analm)
The bloody Moslem-Hindu dis
orders which have been occur
ring in various parts of the In
dian sub-continent, and especial
ly the savage butchery in the
great Punjab district of Pakistan,
bring us face to face with the
dreadful possibility of large scale
civil war among the 400,000,000
of the peninsula.
It should be emphasized that
we are speaking of a "possibil
ity." While further bloodshed
and destruction must be expect
ed, a general conflagration may
well be averted. However, the
contingency is there, and should
it eventuate it would be the most
terrible of all conflicts-religious
and racial strife which knows no
bounds. The neighboring Chi
nese political civil war would be
milk and honey in comparison.
Unity Lacking
, Unhappily the groundwork for
grievous trouble was laid when
the new dominions of Pakistan
(Moslem) and India (Hindu) re
cently were formed as wholly
separate states, instead of being
united in a federal government.
The Moslems, outnumbered three
to one by the Hindus, refused to
place their futures in the hands
of this great and dis'trusted ma
jority. So two suspicious and in nu
merous respects hostile nations
were carved out of the peninsula
like a jig-saw puzzle. And when
this had been achieved many of
the 100.000,000 Moslems were
within India's boundaries and
large numbers of the 300,000,000
Hindus were inside Pakistan.
What more natural than that
violent wrath should descend on
the unprotected heads of these
unwanted minorities?
Indians Primitive
The Indians are a highly in
flammable people and many are
primitive in their passions. There
have been, some nasty communal
outbursts in numerous places,
but by far the worst trouble has
developed in the Punjab.
Terrible stories of unbridled
outbursts of killing are coming
out of the Punjab and untold
thousands are reported to have
died. Great numbers of women
are said to have been abducted
from their homes. Property de
struction has been widespread,
both in urban and country areas.
Farming operations on both sides
of the Pakistan-India frontiers in
some sections have ceased a
grave menace to a land which
always is-hungry.
But fate sometimes achieves
its ends by strange and awful
methods. Perhaps this trouble is
the crucible in which the giant
peninsula is being molded into a
unified nation.
Funeral Rites for
Roy Morgan Set
Funeral services will be held
in Modesto, Cal., for Roy Mor
gan of Modesto, and formerly of
Salem.
He was born in Napa county,
California, in 1884. He attend
ed Albany college, and later
Willamette university where he
graduated in 1908. In Salem he
was associated with the Falls
City Lumber company for sev
eral years. He retired before
the war, but was active again
during the war, retiring again
in 1945.
He is survived by his widow,
Chloe Issam Morgan; two sons,
Leslie Morgan of Ceres, Cal., and
Dr. Banner Bill Morgan of Mad
ison, Wis.; a daughter, Genevieve
of Modesto; and two sisters, Mrs
Ben H. Hawkins and Mrs. Lu
ther Cook, both of Salem.
Planning Grange Fair
Union Hill The Home Econo.
mics club of the Union H1U
Grange will meet at the home
of Mrs. Jo Ann Speed Wednes
day evening at 8 o'clock. Mrs
Lois Hansen will be co-hostess.
Plans will be made for the
Grange fair of October 11. Mrs
w. M. Tate will be program
chairman.
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The Precession of the
Equinoxes
By J. Hugh Pruett
Astronomer, Extension Division, Oregon Higher
Education System
When Dr. Robert G. Aitken
dren came home from the little Mt. Hamilton grammar school
one day babbling about the "procession of the oxes, something
Winners Picked
In Fair Rodeo
Bronc riders, cattle wrestlers
and other winning participants
in the rodeo which was com
bined with the horse show at the
fairgrounds last week came for
ward Sunday night at. the final
show to take their honors and
prize money. Winners' points
will go to national and inter
national headquarters to deter
mine cowboy champions.
Top men of the rodeo were:
3ronc riding: Tint, Stub Bartlemty;
second, Earl Hoppes of Salem; third, Cleric
Pruett ind fourth, Jack Sherman.
Bareback riding; Ft rat, Qua Bartlev;
second, Vidal Oarcia; third, Karl Hoppes;
lourm, Buck Abbott.
Bull ridlnjt: First, Vldal Oarcia: second.
Frank Mendea; third, Jack Halter and
lourin, uienn ryier.
Steer Wrestllns;: First. Bill Markley
second, Barney Willis; third, Joe Mendes
and fourth. Dory Hlnton,
Calf roping: First, Dan Poore; second,
Dory Hlnton: third, Red Allen and fourth,
Barney Willis,
Evening Classes
Open Sept. 20
Salem evening classes for the
first term of the general exten
sion division of-the Oregon state
system of higher education will
be held in Salem senior high
school, Sept. 20-Dec. 5, accord
ing to announcement by Dr.
John F. Cramer, dean-director.
In the field of general inter
est, fall term classes include:
lower division painting taught
by Miss Carmelita Barquist, Sa
lem high instructor; vocabulary
building, William J. Stevens,
University of Oregon English de
partment; introduction to phil
osophy under Rauld Bertrand,
Willamette university; first year
Spanish, Miss Jeanette Roberts
of Salem high.
Courses of special interest to
teachers, but open also to any
interested laymen are: Oregon
school law and system of educa
tion, H. E. Inlow, instructor; ra
dio education, taught by James
M. Morris; improvement of in
struction in reading under Victor
N. Phelps; curriculum workshop,
Harry B. Johnson, curriculum
director Salem schools; health
education for upper grade and
high school teachers, Mrs. Jen-
ne Moorhead.
Inquiry concerning night
classes should be directed to
George D. Porter, director of
adult education and night school,
school office building, Salem, or
Viron A. Moore, head of state
wide classes, general extension
division, Oregon State system of
higher education, Eugene.
Belgium has been overrun by
invaders six times in the last
five centuries, and twice since
gaining independence in 1830.
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was at Lick observatory, his chil
which happens in the stars. All
the pupils were astronomers'
children, so the teacher, not
too well informed herself,
thought it fitting that they
should have some instruction on
a subject with which their fa
thers were readily conversant.
The expression "precession of
the equinoxes" is even juggled
a bit by some copy readers,
who also form a "procession"
of it. But "precession" it is to
scientists copy readers and as
tronomers' children notwith
standing and - phenomena not
easily understood without dia
grams and considerable study.
A bare statement without any
attempt to explain may be given
as follows:
This precession is the slow
westward motion (0.014 degree
annually) of the equinoxes,
those two apparent points
among the stars where the
great imaginary circles of the
sky, the celestial equator and
the ecliptic, cross each other.
At this rate it requires nearly
26,000 years for .either equi
nox entirely to encircle the 360
degrees around the sky.
One of the many effects of
precession is the changing north
in respect to the stars. North
is the direction the north pole
of the earth points. We learned
in grade school that this pole
is tipped 23 degrees from the
upright position to the plane of
the earth's orbit. The fact that
the pole continues to point in
this same direction among the
very distant stars during its
annual trip around the sun gives
us our seasons. But during the
long period of 26,000 years it
will swing around in a large
circle and point succesively
to every place and star appar
ently on the circle of 47 degrees
diameter, or twice 23 degrees.
At present our north star is the
so-called Polaris. In the gener
ations which follow us, many
new north stars will one after
another take the place of Polar-
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proximate time of the building
nf the Great Pvramid of Che
ops in Egypt, the north star was .
stars in the Dragon, On the
north side of the pyramid there
is an opening which leads into
a passageway sloped downward
at 26 degrees, the apparent
elevation above the northern
horizon of Thuban at lower cul
mination at that time. An ob
server at the lower end of this
gallery could have seen his
north star.
The precession of the equi
noxes will swing the pole of the
earth around so that by A.D.
14,000 it will point close to Ve
ga, the brilliant star now about
overhead by the time it is dark.
What a splendid guide star it
will be!
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