I Capital Journal, Salem,
; BARGAIN DAY MAY END
Sales of Intimate Apparel
At Low Costs Is Probed
' Washington, May 3 W The
i wants to know why soldiers ana sailors can ouy gins' nignuei,
' expensive Jewelry and television sets tax-free and at almost
i wholesale prices.
' It ordered the start of an investigation today. Plans are to
Salem Offered
! Housing Funds
! The state board of control de
1 elded today to ask the mayors
! of Salem, Eugene, Springfield,
J Sweet Home and Roseburg if
i they plan to ask for state funds
J to make housing surveys.
The city of Portland asked for
' $15,000 of the $30,000 wnicn tne
', legislat u r e appropriated for
' these surveys. The board said
I that before deciding on whether
to Bive Portland half of this
! fund, it wants to know what
i other cities want part of it.
I Each city which receives state
f money for the surveys must put
up an equal amount of its own
money.
The surveys must be made be
fore any city can receive fed
eral housing aid.
A delegation from Woodburn,
headed by Ray Glatt, asked the
board to appoint an educator,
rather than a law enforcement
officer, as superintendent of the
boys training school at Wood
burn. Governor Douglas McKay re
plied that the board plans to do
that. He said the board is con
sidering three or four men, but
that the decision might not be
made for several weeks.
Governor McKay said the
school's program has to be im
proved because "we are spend
ing such a terrific amount ot
money at the school that it ought
to produce good results. The de
partment of education says the
school's educational program is
below standard."
The board voted to call for
bids on a $78,828 sewer line
from the Hillcrest school for
girls to the state hospital's Cot
tage farm.
The board also authorized
spending of $58,624 to complete
the cafeteria and kitchen in the
new state office building here.
The board heard that the build
ing will be completed about
next January 1.
Man Loses $53,000
On Poor Connection
Astoria. Ore.. May 3 0J.B
Francis Robinson said today he
lost $53,000 on a radio giveaway
show because of a faulty tele
Dhone connection.
Robinson said he was all set
to answer "Sgt. York" to the
big question on "Sing It Again"
Sunday night when the tele
nhone went dead.
Guessing one singer's voice
as Betty Davis put him in the
final bracket of the show, but
it "was lust a lot of mumbo-
Jumbo on the telephone after
that," Robinson said.
"I listened to a re-broadcast
of the program later and heard
the announcer say to me, 'You
can't even make a guess? Sor
ry. Goodbye.' "
Reclamation Chief
To Retire July 1
Boise, Idaho, May 3 Wi R. J
Newell will retire July 1 as re
gional director for the bureau
of reclamation.
Harold T. Nelson his 41-year-
old assistant, will succeed him
The announcement was made
by Secretary of the Interior J
A. Krug. The region, with
headquarters here, encompasses
Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho,
western Montana and parts of
Nevada, Wyoming and Utah.
Admiral Gingrich Named
Washington, May 8 F) The
navy announced today that
Rear Admiral John E. Gingrich
will be chief of staff to Ad
miral Arthur W. Radford, com
mander in chief of the Pacific
fleet.
Sponsored by
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Oregon Mounted Posit Salem Saddle Club
Don't Miss the Big Parade 10:30, Saturday,
May 7!
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Interview Tuei., May S KSLM 8:45 p.m.
Western Hon Evantt Stock Horse Events
Bora-Bock Bronci Wild Cow Milking
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SALEM SADDLE CLUB DRILL
Oregon, Tuesday, May 3, 1949
house armed services committee
make a top-to-bottom study of
the more than half a billion dol
lar business of army post ex
changes and navy ship stores.
Public hearings will begin In
two weeks before a subcommit
tee headed by Rep. Phllbln CD-
Mass.).
Chairman Vinson (D-Ga.) or
dered the probe after civilian
retailers, and some business as
sociations, complained that the
military services are competing
unfairly with them. The serv
ices do not pay federal excise
taxes on luxury items, and some
of their stores' expenses are met
from government funds appro
priated by congress.
There are three classes of
items gold, with limits on some
of them.
The first is the mandatory
list, which all post exchanges
and ship's stores are required
to carry. This includes candy,
soft drinks and beer, tobacco.
such toilet goods as shaving soap
and hair oil, lipstick and hair
nets, and stationery.
Second is the optional list.
Items on this may be carried
at the option of the officer in
charge.
This group includes expensive
cosmetics, watches costing up to
$75, toys up to $15, athletic
equipment up to $100, ladies'
handbags up to $35, and an Item
listed as "intimate apparel, fe
male" up to $15.
The third group Is the special
order list. Items on this are or
dered through the army and
navy stores. Committee staff
members said the stores regular
ly order television sets, refrig
erators, washing machines, and
expensive tableware.
All military personnel are en
titled to trade at these stores.
In addition, some civilians em
ployed by the services have
trading privileges.
Tornado Toll
Raised to 10
Prague, Okla., May 3 U.R
The death toll in the week-end
tornadoes that ripped Oklahoma.
Texas and Kansas rose today to
10.
Mrs. Jesse True, 35, Tulsa,
Okla., died in a hospital here.
Her daughter, Anita, was kill
ed Saturday night when the mo
tor car in which they were
riding was thrown three-quar
tcrs of a mile by the strong
winds.
The twister hit near Meeker
Okla., as others struck through
out the state Saturday night
sweeping 13 other communi
ties.
In all, six were killed In
Oklahoma and four in Texas,
near Bonham.
MILITARY MEN
AND VETERANS
Wednesday, May 4
Volunteer Naval Air Reserve unil
nt the Naval and Marine Corps
Reserve Tralnln, center.
Thursday, May 5
finlm ehnnUr No. 8 DAV. worn
an'm c li,h,nillM flt H n m
Salem Air Reserve Composite
unit.
Cant. Ruth Leaves Army
From AiiRuMa, Ga., has come
word that Capt. Alex P. Ruth, who
ut one lime during the war was
ramp special service officer at Camp
Adair. Amu l reureo irom me
army, his retirement resulting
Irom a physical disability.
The caplaln. an army man since
18 years of age, prior to his re
tirement was hospitalized at Oliver
General hospital at Augusta. Before
being sent to Georgia he had been
with tiie Caribbean command.
Hurt to Air Forre
Salem's Murine Corps Reserve in-1
strwtor-imiwtor office ltvt week
a;t a man lo tlie air force. Sgt
Donald H. Burt, who since rVbruar
f. 19-18. has been on continuous ac
tive duty with the ofrice of the inspector-instructor
representative ot
the local marine corps reserve unit
received! his release from active duty
April 26 and May 4 will enlist In
the Air Force.
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South Salem
Plan Oflered
The widening of South Com
mercial street without one-way
traffic was again offered by the
South Salem Progress club Mon
day night as a solution to the
traffic problem and in opposi
tion to the Baldock plan.
The club also went on record
by resolution for traffic lights
at Owens and Mission streets on
South Commercial.
The resolution on street wid
ening said:
'That South Commercial
street should be widened five
feet on each side, which would
with the 60 feet we now have,
make a total of 70 feet from
property line to property line."
On each side of the street the
club proposes, starting one foot
outside the property line, a five-
foot sidewalk, then a seven-
foot space for parking cars. Be
tween the two parking lanes
would be four 11-foot traffic
lanes for two-way traffic.
"The above plan," says the
resolution, "would cost little,
and would be ample to carry two
times the volume of traffic that
could possibly come in over the
present connecting streets and
highways."
The widening would be from
just north of Mission street to
the south city limits.
"This," it says, "would take
15 feet less than the Baldock
plan calls for off each side f.f
the street, and would not ruin
residential streets and would
save the cost of widening and
resurfacing them."
More Funds for
Health Bureau
Dr. Harold M. Erickson, state
health officer, has advised the
Marion county court that match
money for the county health de
partment from the state will be
increased the coming fiscal year
from 12 percent of matchable
funds up to 15 percent. This
said County Judge Grant Mur
phy will represent 2V4 percent
extra on approximately $95,500.
The budget is about $120,000 but
funds contributed to it from the
Kellogg foundation and also
moneys advanced for rentals are
not matchable, he states, so have
to be deducted in considering
amounts that are reimbursable.
Dr. Erickson's advices sets up
a new matching schedule for all
counties maintaining full time
health departments which gives
counties over 75,000 population
which includes Marion county,
15 percent; counties from 35.000
to 75,000, 25 percent, and those
under 35,000 35 percent. The
population is based on figures in
the last federal census.
It is imperative in granting
the matching funds that the
county budget be at least
much as that budgeted for the
department in 1948-49 as far as
local money is concerned. Fed
eral money cannot be substituted
for local money in considering
such budget and it must be used,
he says, for expansion or increas
ed operating costs.
Baldock Plan Gels
Backing of Labor
Among backers of the Bal
dock plan for Salem street and
traffic control is Salem Central
Trades and Labor council.
Herbert E. Barker, executive
secretary of the council, an
nounced Monday night that a
letter had been prepared to send
to Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom.
The letter will be read at Mon
day night's meeting of the city
council when final action on the
plan is expected.
The labor council adopted
resolution opposing daylight
saving time, on which the coun
cil probably will take final ac
tion Monday night. A daylight
saving ordinance bill was intro
duced at the second April meet
ing ot the city council.
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Marine Home Pfc. Harold
Brantner, son of Mr. and Mrs.
C. R. Brantner, route 2, Salem,
who Saturday arrived home to
spend a 20-day leave. The
marine entered the service in
July, 1948, and recently com
pleted radio school at Camp
Pendleton, Calif. He reports
to El Toro, Calif.
Plane Wreck
Sighted in Tree
Search for a light private
plane with three passengers
which has been missing since a
take-off from the Salem airport
last December, is centering at
Hamburg, in Siskiyou county in
northern California, where shat
tered wreckage of a red air
plane had been sighted in a tree
after thawing of winter snow
had unveiled the fuselage. The
primitive area is about 40 miles
northwest of Yreka.
The craft, a Beechcraft Bo
nanza, was owned and piloted
by Paul David Starr, 32, presi
dent of the PD lumber corpor
ation of Southgate, Calif. With
him were his brother, Robert
Starr, 34, and Miss Ruth Meyer
34, Portland lumber broker, be
lieved to be the only woman
lumber broker in the nation,
who was invited to fly south
with the two men.
Mrs. Lee Starr Adams, Holly
wood, has offered $1000 for the
location of her two sons and an
additional $250 has been offered
by the lumber company. Search
for the missing plane was aban
doned after weeks of fruitless
search by air rescue planes.
Search Begins for
Missing Airplane
Vancouver, B. C, May 3 (CP)
Eight aircraft including two
Lancaster bombers today search
ed the rugged Slmllkameen val
ley 175 miles east of here for a
yellow fleet Canuck, presumed
down with its Vancouver pilot
and nis girl passenger.
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Hangar Lease
Wins Approval
All of the essential bureaus
and officials of the navy de
partment have approved the
lease of the hangar at McNary
field by the navy and it now
awaits the approval of the house
armed services committee.
That was the word received
in Salem Tuesday from the of
fice of Representative Walter
Norblad.
In his letter Norblad stated
that the navy and the national
defense establishment had giv
en their approval to the lease
and that the law further re
quires the approval of the house
armed services committee.
That committee, according to
the congressman, has a subcom
mittee which considers all of
these national defense establish
ment leases and contracts and
generally reports them in a
large number of possibly 40 or
50. Next meeting of the house
armed services committee is in
early May and it is possible that
the Salem lease will then come
up for approval.
KiwaniansSee
Oregon Scenery
In observance of "Tourist
week." the Salem Kiwanis club
was shown motion pictures of
Oregon's scenic spots Tuesday
noon by Manly F. Robinson, di
rector of travel for the state
highway commission. "Help
Tourists Enjoy Oregon" is the
slogan that has been adopted for
encouraging travel in the state.
Robinson explained that the
Portland Chamber of Commerce
is currently engaged in direct
ing two tours over the state for
the purpose of calling attention
to the advantages of providing
tourists with every possible fa
cility for making their stay in
Oregon pleasant. One tour is
through eastern Oregon and the
other covers the western part
of the state. The group will visit
Salem May 13 and will meet
with the Salem Board of Real
tors at the Marion.
The Ala Baba Instrumental
trio consisting of accordian, gul
tnr and bass viol, provided mu
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Snyder Has No Fears on
Nation s Financial Picture
Take It from the United States secretary of the treasury: The
financial condition of the nation is nothing to worry about.
And, on top of that bit of bright news, Oregon, in his opinion,
'stands at the brink of a new
Treasury Secretary John Snyder has five reasons for being
optimistic at this time about the
business outlook for the nation.
He confidently expressed those
reasons on his visit to Portland
Monday night for the "kickoff"
of the "opportunity drive" for
United States savings bonds.
These are his reasons for op
timism:
First, liquid assets of individ
uals in the country stand at the
highest figure on record. That
figure is $200 billions.
Secondly, net working capital
of corporations also is at a rec
ord level. He puts it at about
$65 billions.
Thirdly, none of the specula
tive conditions that were largely
responsible for the severe price
decline of 1920 are present to
day.
Fourth, businessmen have
been unusually cautious in their
inventory policies. This 'con
trasts with the heavily over
bought conditions of 1920.
Fifth, the present "huge vol
ume ' of personal and corporate
savings and the "great amount
of heavy construction projects"
encourage a healthy financial
view.
The secretary did, however,
admit this: "We are going
through one of those business
fluctuations, which represents a
further postwar readjustment to
normal buyers markets and
freely competitive conditions.
In appraising our economic
position, we must be careful to
distinguish between a strong
foundation and minor ups and
downs of business between the
underlying movement of an eco
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nomlc tide and the waves of ir
regular business fluctuations."
Snyder who rose from a small
town in Arkansas to national
prominence in his cabinet post,
feels the current "readjustment
is adding further strength to our
economic foundation, and is
bringing closer the renewed
business advance which we may
expect after normal buyers'
markets are fully restored.
Oregon's share of the nation
al "opportunity" bond sales goal
$11 millions. State bond
drive chairman is E. C. Sam
mons.
Present at the dinner from
Salem were Governor Douglas
McKay and Sidney L. Stevens,
Marion county drive chairman.
New Milk Prices Loom
Portland, Ore., May 3 U.R E.
L. Peterson, director of agri
culture and milk control ad
ministrator, Monday predicted a
new schedule of minimum milk
prices for Portland by July 1
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Gen. Mark Clark, commander
of the Sixth Army area, Tues
day afternoon stopped brief
ly in Salem to confer with both
Gov. Douglas McKay and Ore
gon's Adjutant General, Ma),
Gen. Thomas E. Rilea.
Accompanying tne general on
the trip north that will take
him to Fort Lewis were Mrs.
Clark and his aide.
In Eugene, where he Tuesday
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unit, Clark was interviewed by
the Associated Press and stated
that he had no comment to
make on recent reports that said
he is a possible successor to Gen.
Lucius D. Clay in Germany.
Carpenters Strike
Spokane, May 3 f) Spokane
area construction projects were
starting to close down today be
cause an estimated 3000 eastern
Washington carpenters stopped
work yesterday. A wage dispute
caused the work stoppage. Car
penters in the Spokane area ask
ed $2.20 an hour. They have
been getting $2.06. Their con
tract with contractors expired
yesterday.
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