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Newspaper Page Text1 I Capital Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409.. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited In this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly, $1.00; One Year, $12.00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year, $8.00. U.S. Outside Oregon! Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 7, 1948 . Rodman Suggests the Acid Test Perhaps it's seeing things that don't exist. Neverthe less, the republicans' state campaign reflects a new ap proach In politics. And the new, approach happens to co incide with the GOP vice presidential .candidate's long standing "non-partisan" political outlook. Perhaps Earl Warren had nothing to do with it, but Jim Rodman of Eugene, chairman of the republican state cen tral committee, has borrowed a page from the Californian's handbook on politics. Rodman asks listeners to realize that the entire repub lican campaign in Oregon is based on these "ten simple words: Vote for the best man. May the best man win." In this campaign Rodman would have his party follow ers shun the dark and "invite the full light of public in quiry" into the qualifications of the various candidates offering themselves for public office. "We believe, in short, that only the candidate best iuited by background, training and experience should be awarded the public office he seeks in this or any other election," the state chairman tells the people of the state in all seriousness. There is no tub-thumping, cowboy bands or singing commercials figuring in the GOP campaign which got under way this week. There is this strictly unusual ap proach of "forgetting party affiliations of candidates and picking the candidates best qualified to hold the office for which he or she is running." Obviously, Rodman is cocky about his group of candi dates. He feels his slate will 'hold up pretty well under close scrutiny. Confidence is plainly expressed in this new type of campaign he is sponsoring. The democrats can gulp uncomfortably when confronted with this cocksureness. It's the kind of a challenge that only able candidates can meet. The democratic party, with its substantial numerical strength in the state, has only itself to blame if its candi dates won't hold their own in this type of test. Cure for the Common Cold The Journal of the American Medical Society, in its current issue, quotes three physicians as reporting that penicillin dust, inhaled directly into the nose, throat and lungs, has cured symptoms of the common cold in one to three days. In a group of 169 common cold patients treated, 42 per cent were considered cured and 38 percent showed marked Improvement. The doctors state that "these phenomena cannot be fully explained on the basis of the known prop erties of penicillin and need further investigation." Pending further study, the researchers are assuming that the penicillin dust attacks not the virus that causes the cold, but the bacteria that prolongs it. Penicillin has proved a potent weapon against some bacteria, but has not proved itself effective, to date, against the tiny virus which invades the human cells. However, penicillin dust inhalations multiply by many times the concentration of the drug that can be brought directly- to the site of respiratory infections. One pur pose of further studies will be to determine whether heavy doses of penicillin actually affect the virus itself. In the inhalation treatment, the patient merely inhales the dust through a mask one to three times dally, three to six minutes being required for each dose and patients can go about their work without loss of time at minimum ex pense. The researchers recommend the treatment for selected patients, whose common colds had a tendency to hang on and develop into pneumonia, sinus trouble or ear infections. For years cures have been sought for the common cold, the curse of the common person and if penicillin proves the long-sought cure, it will have proved itself the wonder drug of them all. It has already proven its value as "the best therapeutic agent available for treatment of all strep tococcal infections. It is an effective agent in the treat ment of syphilis, antinomycosis and bacterial endocar ditis." Meat Prices Drop for a While The drop in hog and other meat prices appears to be getting down where it counts for most people nt the re tail butcher shop. Many stores throughout the country have slashed prices for the coming week-end as a result of the sudden outpouring of hogs from the country at major centers. Some cuts have been made in beef and mutton, but pork leads the decline and wholesale prices continue to ease. Agriculture department officials, packing house sources and representatives of farmer organizations have given these opinions of the hog-pork price break : 1. It's a seasonal matter, but came a little earlier than usual this year. An agriculture department official at Chicago said farmers knew the drop was coming, as it usually does in No vember, and had marketed spring pigs the past few weeks In an effort to "beat the break." 2. The meat packers are moving pork quickly. A leadir.g packer spokesman said the Industry was going into the "ac cumulative season," when supplies are built up. But. he said, "nobody wants to hold now and they are pushing pork right out into wholesale channels." The drop may just be a temporary flurry. James Elliott, president of the National Association of Retail Meat Deal ers, says, "the chances are that after the usual heavy runs at this time of year meat prices will go back to where they were two weeks ago." Consumer resistance was a doubtful factor. Rut an agriculture department official said the housewife had heard so much about bumper crops lowering prices that she was reducing her buying. The prediction is made that when the leveling off period comes, meat prices should stay more or less even until next summer, but at lower prices than this summer. It's Time for Buck Fever Echo, Ore. UP) A fraternising doe gave a lady i bit of a Jolt here. "I thought I had buck fever," Mrs. Ray Tolar exclaimed when she noted through her kitchen window a friendly deer getting chummy with the hens and roosters In her chicken yard. Mrs. Tolar regained her composure, shut the gate and call ed police. The deer turned out to be an escapee from the state game farm near Ordnance, not a scared animal fleeing from Oregon hunter. Only members of the family to object to the state police Who took the deer away was the Tolar's Collie. He had to be restrained from nipping the officers. by BECK Vacations t''1 r-i LET THE CHILDREN HAVE . ANYTHING THEY WANT WvfN ifeSSN GOT TO USE UP THE CANADIAN ) 321i!iii2 CHANGE. THERE'S NO SENSE V 1 IN TAKING IT BACK TO I I THE STATES. , S ' -, 1.7- SIPS FOR SUPPER Be Nice to Him By DOM UPJOHN Ervin Ward, county dog license enforcement officer started his arduous task today of making a house-to-house canvass to line up all dog owners in Salem who are delinquent in buying their licenses. Yea, Erv is go- jng 10 KnucK on every door In town and we opine by the time he is through he will be the biggest knocker in the city's history. Already he has one slightly skinned knuck- u,,'oh" le from knocking in some of the smaller county towns so he starts off with one strike against him, as It were. He expects to start knocking with bare knuck les. As soon as these begin to get skinned up a bit he'll don a light pair of gloves. As these wear out he expects to put on some hop picker's mitts, from there to leather gloves, and as the going gets real bad in the suburbs he expects to trot out the old brass knuckles he used to wear on occasions when a cop prowling the dark alleys. As a last resort, if the going gets too tough, he may switch to boxing gloves, although It might be quite a trick with these writ ing up the licenses. At any rate he expects the job will take about a month. snap-on rubberized cover and a disposable Interior, and, setting off for the dark continent to do away with Negro babies' loin cloths, he told the press: "I shall carry out demonstrations on the Gold arid Ivory coasts. I want to introduce hygiene and re duce the mothers' work." That nice new plyboard fence around the Guardian building site is wide open for applying initials, names, autographs, or even poetry and by the end of the week should be pretty well plastered with same. However, it still remains for Ed Viesko, the contractor, to supply a peep hole for Clarence Byrd. A Three-Cornered Monopoly London P) A go-getter sales man Is off to Africa to try sell ing diapers to the natives. Wil fred Walkers, 60, who has three small children of his own, in vented a new diaper with a Some of these cops around here deserve to be put on pedes tals and Loren White who han dles the traffic at State and Twelfth streets around 5 o'clock jolly well knows it, for he's sup plied himself with one and makes an attractive statuesque looking object while using same. Some of his compatriots sug gest he'd be safer if he put some fog lights on it. We note a committee of six has been named to examine comic books and see which is which and those that are innoc uous or vice versa. They might name a batch of juvenile assist ants about six or eight years old who'd examine 'em for nothing and take 'em on as fast as they came along. Her Small Gift Had Big Meaning Palo Alto, Calif. UP) A gift of $2,177 isn't much in the en dowment lists of a big school. But Stanford university acknowl edged that amount gratefully today. It represented the life savings of a 74-year-old Austrian im migrant woman, Miss Susan Kohl Nagengast, who died in 1944. For more than 16 years she worked as a baker at a women's dormitory on the Stanford campus. In her will, she said she wanted to have a part in educating the youth of her adopted country. Her one piece of jewelry, a $100 diamond ring, also was willed to the university. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Ickes Volunteers Talks To Aid Truman Position By DREW PEARSON Washington Honest Harold Ickes, who sometimes wields a meat axe for a pen, and Harry Truman, who can be blunter than a concrete pavement, got along pretty well when they met at the White Voters at the taxpayers' ex pense aimed to strengthen his shaky chances of re-election. When President Truman re turned from his western cam paign trip, one of those waiting to greet him inside the White House grounds was his old boot black friend John .Maragon of Kansas City. The president has been as sured by his aides that he'll carry every state in the south (southerners doubt it). House this Neither had seen each other since they part ed In a blaze of verbal glory . two and a half years before. "I never held anything against y 0 u,' the president told his ex-secretary of the in terior. Obviously he was refer ring to some of the things Ickes wrote about him in his pungent column. Iff", , i DeWIU M.rKriul. tween and the other great powers," including America. James A. Farley, former chairman of the democratic na tional commit tee, visiting the (sVJ Spanish capital nun tiuc iui a :onferencc with Franco, also has advocated re newal of diplomatic relations with Spain. He said this should be done without delay, and added: "We have helped the coun tries of Europe in their fight on communistic inroads. Spain's position on communism is well known. If trouble faces us in the future, Spain would be an Important ally." Well, now, this development Is of more than passing interest in view of the fact that the gen eralissimo for years has been made to stand in the corner as the bad lad of Europe. To be sure, the feeling about Franco hasn't been so bitter in some important world capitals ns would appear on the surface. Still, he has been outside tho pale. Communist Russia and her satellites have, of course, been among Franco's bitterest and most active enemies because the Spanish government he over threw in 1939 was strongly leftist. As a matter of fact, the Soviet Union gave the republic mate rial aid In the fight against Franco. Still, the generalissimo's greatest sin was in accepting aid Drew Pe.non Roger Straus of American Smelting and Refining, whose father, Oscar Straus, was secre- Probably Ickes could have tary of commerce under Teddy And as we have aready noted Cost of Living Less in Prison Indianapolis UP) Walter C. Seward is back In jail now because the eost of living I too high outside. Seward, who has spent 33 of his 54 years inside the state prison at Michigan City, Tuesday asked parole officials to send blm back to prison. He had been freed on parole last Sunday and was work ing at a job parole officials had obtained for hint. "I couldn't keep from violating my parole on just $25 a week," Seward said. He was working at a tree nursery. Seward was serving a life sentence for a slaying. 'YOUR CITY GOVERNMENT' Biggest of Salems in the U.S. Keeps Engineer's Staff Busy ARTICLE VI By ROBERT L. ELFSTROM (M.ror .1 th. CHr .1 s.ln The corporate city limits of Salem contains a little more than seven square miles. In that area is an estimated population of about 47,000 persons. Tt has seven Darks and 11 public schools. There are 24 other Salems in the U. S. but ours is the largest. Is Spain Still a 'Bad Boy? By DeWITT MacKENZIE (AP Foreign Attain Analyst) U. S. Senator Chan Gurney, chairman of the senate armed forces committee, after conferring with Generalissimo Franco in Madrid, has called for restoration of "complete relations be- S d a i n from nazi Hitler ana lascist Mussolini, and then in view of many observers showing signs of reciprocating in some degree during the World War There has been much argu mont over this point, but the generalissimo certainly laid himself open to the comment that "birds of a feather flock together, Apropos of this, when I was in Madrid in '45 I had a long interview with General Franco, and I flung this blunt question at him: "The people of the United States have fought a great war against nazlsm and fascism. Thousands of our boys have died for this cause. "Rightly or wrongly the Am erican public feels that Spain was in effect an ally of Ger many and Italy and find It hard to forgive that. "Did you subscribe to or sup port naz'. and fascist policies?" His reply was an emphatic no, with an elaboration to sup port It. ... However, all that is water over the dam. It strikes a lot of observers that the Important thing now is how long It should take a sinner to purge himself of mis deeds so that he can return to the International fold. It certainly looks as though the democracies were encoun tering a lot more hostility from certain other quarters right now than they ever have from Fran-, co. It also Is true, as Farley points out, that Spain would be an Important ally it we got into a jam important strategically and materially. t said the same about some of Truman's harsh remarks, but he didn't. Instead he reminded his ex-boss about an incident which Truman had completely forgotten. It was in the early days of the Truman administra tion and referred to Tidelands oil. Ickes had never been able to get Attorney General Francis Biddle, liberal as he was, to bring an action before the su preme court to recover the sub merged oil lands of California, Texas and Louisiana for the federal government. Nor had Truman's Attorney General Tom Clark yet moved. So Ickes laid the thorny prob lem right in Truman's lap. And without batting an eye, Tru man promised action. Next day at a cabinet meet ing he carried out his promise. Asking Tom Clark when the Tidelands-oil suit would be taken before the supreme court, Truman added: "I want it taken up right away." It was one of the most con troversial issues in the far west, certain to lose votes, sure to rouse the undying Ire of the big oil boys who had contributed to Truman's campaign. Never the less, the suit was brought and won. This week Ickes reminded Truman of the forgotten inci dent, then volunteered to make some speeches pointing out that Truman had the courage of his convictions while Dewey had avoided putting certain contro versial cards on the table. WALLACE'S EGGS When District of Columbia democratic leaders gieeted the president on his return to Washington from the Hustings, the first question they asked him was about his health. "Vitamin C stands for cam paigning as far as I'm con cerned," replied Truman. "When I left town on this trip, I had a cold and a sore throat. Now I'm rid of both and I gained 10 pounds while making 120 speeches." "What do you think of those Texans tossing eggs at Henry Wallace?" inquired Al Wheel er, Washington attorney and chairman of the D. C. democrat ic committee. "I was sorry to hear about that I really was," replied the president. "I guess the incident was building up for a long time. Some of those Texans have never liked Wallace since the day he was plowing under pigs. "Then they get awful mad about Wallace posing as a mis sionary trying to make Chris tians out of southerners who don't agree with him. Add to that, Wallace's commie connec tions and you get some idea why those eggs were thrown Those Texans couldn't hold out any longer. "But I don't like that kind of demonstration in a democratic country," concluded Truman, "regardless of the circumstances behind it. . MERRY-GO-ROUND Congressman Parnell Thomas has begun mailing out 10.000 special letters to New Jersey Roosevelt, is slated for a cabin et job under Dewey. . TRUMAN'S LAST RIDE Despite the unfavorable po litical polls, Harry Truman is sure going down fighting. He is scheduling another 100 speeches between now and elec tion day, and sooner or later he hopes to step on enough of Dewey's toes to smoke him out and make him fight back. Here is the windup for the last week of what will be the most vigorous campaign prob ably staged by any president in history. Leave Washington Saturday, Oct. 23, with "whistle stop" speeches for three days en route to Chicago. Tuesday, Oct. 26, Important speeches in Gary and South Bend, In., Toledo, Sandusky and Cleveland, Ohio. Oct. 27, jump back to Pitts- field, Springfield and Boston, Mass. It is growing rapidly cealn "ely a"a u - ih. imnortant quirements, and during the jobs we have to do is that of "rse of their construction in ... annntinna must Kb .mafia tn Co, maintenance and construction. The engineering depart ment's budget appropriation for general work alone this year amounts to more than $200,000. An additional $463,500 was al- construction of interceptor and gineering department this 1948 .vtonninns 49 flscal veBr wl11 collect more spections must be made to see that specifications are follow ed. These are phases of a well ordered city government. rt . It is estimated that your en-jfllk. than $15,000 In building per mit fees. The budget allotment this year grants an expenditure of $23,551 for Salem's parks, $13, 313 for the playgrounds and $31,339 for public buildings. It is the responsibility of your city manager and your city en gineer to expend these sums wisely. If at times some of their projects seem to move a little slowly, we remind you of the enormous amount of plan ning that is always necessary. Then, too, there Is the matter of obtaining the right materials, at the right price and the right time. If the street in front of your home is scheduled to be paved, don't be impatient. You may get a better job done by waiting. There are no luxury Items in the city engineering depart ment's schedules. The jobs this department does are alt essen tial, and the budget allotment for them is one of the most care fully considered on the long list. By HAL BOYLE Many problems have to be New York VP) There is no hobby too odd for a man seeking worked out and some of them to find an individual niche in history. re of a highly technical na- I heard of a man who spent all his spare time standing on lure' Maintenance of Salem's streets, 96 miles of which are paved, is in itself a big job, Streets, as we all know, take a terrific beating from both the traffic and the elements. The job of repairing them is a con tinuous one. Sewers become clogged, obsolete and inadequ ate. They are an ever-remedying chore. Annexations are added, and new sewers and water lines and Worcester fire plugs have to be installed. New streets are built, old ones Next day, Hartford. New Ha- must be widened and graded or ven, Bridgeport and Stamford, paver. And surveys must be Conn. made. Night of Oct. 28, a big rally Your city engineer and his in New York followine which staff are busy people. Truman will leave for Kansas Another function of your en City for his final speech on Saturday, Oct. 30. (Copyright 1048) gineering department is the handling of building permits. All buildings must meet with POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER No. 1 Jazz-Band Fan rail embankment. As the trains sped past, he noted down the number of each freight car and the rail road that own ed it. In time he accumulated a longer list of freight ear numbers than anyone that'd ever lived. To him this was i enough reward to have done something no one else ever had. The other day another young man of this stern breed dropped In to tell me about his unusual claim to fame. He was Jack R. Williams, 22, a tall, freckled, sandy-haired former U.S. sailor who believes he is the nation's number one jazz-band fan, Sammy Kaye branch. "I have listened to more than a thousand broadcasts by Sammy Kaye, and each time I wrote down every tune he played," he said proudly. To still any doubts I might have that he was really only a New York Philharmonic Sym phony orchestra fan playing a belated April fool joke, Wil liams produced the evidence. There they were hundreds of pages scribbled with . the names of melodies. And he had carefully written down where he heard them in so-and-so's parking lot, in his car while out driving, aboard the U.S. de stroyer Marsh in the Pacific. Suppose, for example . we "I am convinced," I said, con- have two streets to pave, one vinced. "Tell me, Jack, how did downtown and the other in af, it all begin?" residential section. The mafrr terials for paving the one In the "Well," said Jack, who is a residential section would be en baggage clerk in the Greyhound tirely different from those bus station in Columbus, O., downtown. Where a greater "it is a long story it goes clear volume of vehicular traffic is back to Dec. 21, 1941. carried, different pavement ma- 1 was home in bed with the terial mixtures must be used. And in the construction of sewers, many things must be considered: The type of soil, depths and elevations and even the potential future growth of that particular section of the city. flu. I turned on the radio and heard them announce Sammy Kaye's Sunday serenade. 1 didn't have anything else to do, so I just copied down the songs. "I got Interested. I liked the music, and it was fun writing down the tunes so I just kept it up." Since then he has missed few broadcasts. Several times he has journeyed hundreds of miles he gets a free bus pass to hear and meet Sammy Kaye In person. "He let me lead the band once," Jack said softly, and in the busy room I could hear the muted trumpets that would Your city engineer must be a man who knows engineering and he must also know the answers to the hundreds of problems that are peculiar only to city maintenance and con struction work. Tomorrow's report will tell you about your city planners. sound In his ears forever. "Ev erybody in the band likes me." Almost Too Good a Story Fishhawk Creek, Ore. (IP) Two deer hunters told a hunt ing yarn about their luck the second day of the season, Oct. 2. Some said it was too (two) good a story. The hunt lasted two hours. Both shot two deer simul taneously, and happened to be 200 yards apart, at that. More? r. It took them two hours to pack out the two deer, but only one was a two-point buck; the other, a five-pointer, spoiled the tale with a weight of 165 pounds. Almost too (2) good to be true. Thermo-reflated routed for uniform hill ilivor, ... ntCl tils 1.1 I V J faerr'es's SesfSeerf . . . because more mothers want them, Kcllogg's Corn Flakes get into homes quicker, and fresher. Great nourishment! - Ms AV 0Bfr Mother Knows Beit !