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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday. May 3. 1949
One of the Facts of Life
The time for decision is far overdue.
Next Monday night the city council must arrive at final
action on acceptance or rejection of the Baldock traffic
plan for Salem. The mectinjj of the council at that time
will be the last one before the May session of the state
hiphway commission. It was the commission's chairman
who, in April, gave the city until the May meeting to
nflrke up its mind on whether it wanted to accept or reject
the highway engineers' $7,600,000 proposal to substitute
order for the traffic chaos that now holds the city in
discomfort.
Return to Salem of Mayor Elfstrom eliminates the last
"reason for any delay in final action. There was no reason
during the mayor's absence for a delay, but those who
hesitated in arriving at a decision found Elfstrom's trip
a handy excuse.
. There has never been any doubt where the mayor stood
on the Baldock plan. He has constantly been in favor of
the city's accepting it, with those modifications agreeable
to both the highway engineer and Salem. And Elfstrom
is still of the same opinion.
Lest there be any fears of untimely speed in putting into
effect the four-point Baldock plan, the time-table of its
possible inauguration should be reviewed.
Acceptance of the traffic program by the city, followed
by approval of the highway commission, would start a
long-time series of moves to relieve Salem of its traffic
ills. The moves to fulfill the four points of the Baldock
plan would be spread over a period of a minimum of prob
ably four years. So the effect would be gradual.
However, unless the moves were taken as outlined by
Hhe state highway engineer, the traffic confusion would
"become increasingly worse in the city. Ultimately Salem
would have to assume the financial responsibility of some
kind of a solution to the problem. And where could such
a solution better come than from the engineers, trained
in highway engineering, who actually live in this city?
That, in effect, is the present Baldock plan only backed
by highway commission funds.
r
When all the facts are considered, acceptance next Mon
day night of the Baldock plan is the only sane action the
city council can take.
It just stands to reason that a study, which has taken
the highway engineers more than two years to make,
will be as good a current study as can be made of the
local traffic troubles.
Is Salem to wait another two or three years for another
' study to be made, only to turn that one down, too, because
it would come out with the same suggestions as are con
tained in the present Baldock plan?
Is Salem to postpone each year a decision it must make
eventually if it is to find a way out of the current traffic
; confusion?
i A survey of the facts shows so clearly that the
, $7,600,000 state sponsored program for the city's streets
1 is the logical answer, and one Salem has wanted and
, asked for. The city council has less than a week now in
' which to accept that realization as one of the facts of life.
I Only One Line Drawn
Two world wars underline General Bradley's statement
that the nation's defense frontiers lie "in the heart of
; Europe."
The Army's chief of staff reminded congress that the
1 United States could not afford to forget that the coastal
borders of the country are no longer true frontiers. Lives
', lost and billions spent in World War I and World War II
; had shown so clearly that what goes on in Europe affects
. this country just as vitally as does what goes on within
'. the three-mile limit off the coasts.
What Bradley didn't explain, however, was the frontier
line in the Pacific.
What have those same two wars, and the war of '08,
shown as to legitimate United States interests in the
Pacific? At what line do the nation's interests end?
; The west coast so often has the feeling that the Euro
'. pean theater has so much of the attention of top officials
in Washington that the Pacific theater is pretty much
an after thought. That was the way strategy was in the
past war. Attention was properly and necessarily cen
tered on Europe. At the same time, however, strategy
in the Pacific was definite and not haphazard. That is
, not the case today.
While the United States is ahead in the cold war in
; Europe, the nation can he said to lie losing the Pacific
action in that same cold war.
I Why can't the nation be as explicit in defining the
; frontiers and aims of the United States in Asia as Brad
ley does for Europe? As it is now, the nation's policv
on Asia is so uncertain and so fluctuating as to leave
; the people confused. If a line ran be drawn in Europe,
; It also can be just as properly defined for the Pacific area.
A HUSBAND'S VALIANT EFFORTS
: His Use of Beer-Can Opener
: Credited With Saving Wife's Life
i Ithaca. N. Y., May 1 uroA 211 year-old polio victim, whose
husband's valiant efforts kept her alive when her iron lung
i broke down aboard a trans-continental train, arrived here
' today.
! Mrs. Shirley Palmer was admitted Immediately lo Ithaca
i Reconstruction home for treatment. Doctors said she apparent
I ly was none the worse for her cross-country t-ip.
Mrs. Palmer s iron limn broke down near Laramie. Wvn
i aboard the Union Pacific's streamliner Cily of l.o Angeles
i Her husband, Robert, used a beer-ran opener tc keep the iron
lung operating for eight hours until the train pulled Into
, Omaha.
' Mrs. Palmer, whose husband is an art student in Los Angeles
, Is B0 per cent paralysed by the disease. She is able to move
only her head.
! Palmer said the respirator's pumping mechanism broke down
, The respirator is equipped with an emergency handle for use
' when electric power is not available.
! But Palmer said tha handle failed to work
; "I found a beer can opener on the floor of the car." he said
"and by Juggling it around got it to replace the handle."
' He squatted on the floor and worked the device for eight
J hours until the train reached Omaha, Neb, at 4 a m ves
i terday, he said.
At Omaha, the fire department provided a new respirator
i Mrs. Palmer said her husband, a wartime fighter pilot in
' Burma, was "Just wonderful." Ha said he was "Just tired."
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Soviet Eases Pressure
To Surprise of Iran
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Here are uncensored diplomatic slants on how tht
cold war and the hot peace negotiations are going.
Some are had but most are good:
Russians relent This Iranian government has reported to the
state department that all Russian pressure on Iran has suddenly
and strangely
keep Marshall Tito from patch
ing up his fight with Moscow.
American engineers are now es
timating the costs, which may
go as high as $100,000,000.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
NtXT TIME YOU oOTOAMOVIf.THE
ODDS ARE 12 TO I IT U RUN BtTWEEN
80ANDI00MINUIC.5.
halted. Two
weeks ago the
I ra n 1 a ns had
prepared a for
mal demand
that the Unitrd
Nations security
council investi
gate Soviet ag
gression. B u t
the p r e s s u rcV
i j
easen up ara-
matically when
negotiations over Berlin began,
Evatt's Optimism Dr. Her-
M5TV
Even if rou'RE Planning to
START A SMALL BUSINESS. OOPS
ARE 9 TO I YOU'LL
SPEND 7.000
OR MORE.
Drt r.n
TRUMAN ON NEW MEXICO
When the president is pleas
ed, his face lights up and two
dimples pop into his cheeks.
Thus his face gave him away
the other day over prospects ot
returning to old haunts in New
Mexico.
He was invited to slip down
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Canny Advice
By DON UPJOHN
Governor Jim Cooke, Salem high school lad who served as
governor with the boys' legislature last week was left with quite
a raft of bills to approve or veto as in his wisdom he saw fit.
The real gover-
bert Evatt, president of the Unit- ,0 Sant Fe this fall for the
ed Nations general assembly, is J001" anniversary of New Mex-
happier than he's ever been 'e' pioneer paper, the Santa
about the future of the U. N Fe New Mexican.
The fact that the Berlin oeace Truman wouldn't make any
talks have taken place in the "at Promises to attend, but he
U N. has thoroughly Justified recalled with a chuckle his
its existence even if the organ- rly experiences in the state,
ization accomplishes nothing He has visited New Mexico in
else. Actually the U. N. has also 1909 and again in 1924, he re-
alreariv hrnneht nesce to Pales- la'ed- Both times he had stopped
tine, Pakistan, and India. Not to rummage through an old cu
bad for a three-vear-old baby. r" hP "" chat with the own
I
STOCKS
60 DOWN 0URIN6
A YEAR RATHER THAN
UP. By ODDS OF 15
TO II. AVERAGES
WERE UP IN 22 OF
THE LAST 52 YEARS
(TMAMt A tor fat A
6000 ouesrOM. Bin
COHt, ClimtHO.O.)
nor. Douglas!
McKay, advised!
Jim that tot
the job he
snouia veio hi
least n n e hilt
So J i m turned
turned to hi.'
advisors. Dear
U. G. Dubach of
Willamette and
Senators Dean
Walker of Independence and
Howard Belton of Clackamas
5
Lm
So he was parked in the corri
dor at City hall leading back
to the city Jail. So Carl Charl
ton, assistant chief of police, re
ceived a big ovation from the
jail inmates this morning as Carl
marched back ipto the corridor
with a mop and bucket to take
care of the situation. This is
"Be Kind to Animals Week,'' in
cidentally. Working Up an Appetite
Denver iP John Cloud. 52
a construction worker, said he
county, to discuss the matter of fas'.of 29 days yestcr-
the proper bill to veto. They T s;t"-
had no trouble coming up with J1' The Rood Lord
one. It was a measure which heard by prayers and made me
... .... himrsrv " PlnuH tnlH rpnnrlers
would have required an moior "-'' "- -
car drivers 55 years old or over
to take an examination as
Austrian Jitters -
trian government
- The Aus
is alarmed
the late J. S. Candelario.
One prize item Candelario
showed off was a trunk which
early New
and author
Mexican
of "Ben
because the Hungarian army hg sM had bclongcd to Lcw
nas oeguil uuikiimk Luntitnc yaace
boxes along the Austrian bor- overno'r
der. Huge floodlights and bar- f,
t i i : i -1 L. JIUT.
DPG-WirC UdlllLdUtrB inu nic wir
ing installed opposite Austria
with pillboxes every 100 yards.
All this has the Austrians in the
Jitters.
Arms to Europe The joint
chiefs of staff have notified
President Truman that the army
has 9.286 surplus tanks and 7,
000.000 tons of ammunition it
Truman recalled how Cande
lario had told him with a broad
wink: "If I sell that one, it will
be the ninth one I have sold."
Chuckling so that his dim
ples shewed, the president also
recalled another of Candelario !
cracks. It seems he used to ex
hibit a small skull which he
ntn;mAJ ...... Ikt nf K'nnUnn
can ship to western Europe un- 0nce f doubting woman cus;
He said he made daily visits to
to the Nazarene church during the
der the Atlantic pact. That's
enough to equip 25 armored
divisions.
'American Plant In Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia has begun secret
tomer had asked whether tht
skull wasn't too small to have
been Napoleon's.
"Well, that was his skull
when he was a boy," the presi-
guessed it. The advisers are all clud wi resume his regular
" eating habits slowly, he said
Who's Fare Is Red Now?
Portland W Mayor Dorothy
McCullough Lee who Is op-
negotiations with an American detlt quoted the old curio keep-
period he abstained from food company to build a steel plant er's repiy.
in Jugoslavia, ine siaie ni-pan- Truman explained he had re
ment has given its blessings to turned to Santa Fe in 1B24 to
the deal upon recommendations npp erect monument to pio
from the American embassy. neer mothers,
which is looking for ways to (Copiumt
and will not eat a full-sized meal
until next week
Spurred on by an Item in our
posed to gambling here-can't .d tZ SHAPELY CHASSIS IS LAST
play in Newport's raffle. The
Newport Chamber of Commerce
Joe Felton decided he'd better
try filling one of the beautiful
returned a ticket sold to the 'umam Pen .R1Yen ".Dy lne
Portland mayor bv a crab festi- Elks PPreciation of his serv
val delegation. The group ex- lces' So he unscrewed the top
plained it was sent back so Mrs. " ,same nd ?und .pl"nf"
Lee would not be embarrassed 'ticking up. He inserted the
in the event she would win on Pfn P'nt n ink bWe and
her ticket. plunged. Disappointed at get-
ting no results he yanked out
Some of the boys on the police the plunger and plunged again
force picked up a stray dog last but this time over some papers
night, a very fine dog with a on his desk. The pen is still
nice leash and somebody's pet empty, we hear.
Second Surprise for 'Bob'
Charleston, W. Va. "P' A quartet of Siamese kittens
Siamese like in twins, that is has been born to a five-year-old
cat misnamed Bob.
Bob's owner, Mrs. Freda Cole, said mother and kittens,
which are joined together by their stomachs, apparently are
doing nicely.
This Is the second surprise Rob has given the Coles.
The first was about four years ago when what they thought
was a tomcat gave birth to her first litter.
10 Things a Girl Needs
To Become Movie Star
By VIRGINIA MacPHERSON
Hollywood (U.P A director who's been turning stage-struck
kids into world-famous movie queens for almost 30 years named
10 things today a girl needs to be a star and a shapely chassis
ami S7t
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Princes' Glory on Way Out
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(i4f ForrMin Affairs Ammo
India Is happy over the historic agreement which permits her
to become a republic and Ft ill remain a member of the British
Commonwealth of Nations without acknowledging the sover-
"f P-sM rnni.m. ukiK h.... nn niac
in this atomic age of ours. Still
one can understand the feelings
of potentates, some of whom
were links in bejeweled dynas
ties reaching back many hund
reds of years.
The story of the princes forms
one of the striking pages of
history. The pomp and splen
dor surrounding them had to
be seen to be believed.
I saw much of it at one time
or another, for I was a guest in
was last on his
list.
Curves'll get
you whistles at
Hollywood and
Vine, said Director-
Produc
er Clarence
Brown. But
they won't get
your name on
any of those
$.i000- a- week
sav checks.
"The first thing you need,
he said, "is intelligence. A girl
has to be briRht to be an actress.
If she ever gets to the top, she
has to be brilliant."
Next came an "interesting"
face
crewmen, etc. The more they
like you the more they help you
to success. And if you're tem
peramental, well . . . lights have
been known to fall on actresses'
heads , . . accidentally . .
5 An instinctive and an
acquired knowledge of stage
craft; "You have to know what
good acting is and then find out
how to do it yourself."
6 The ability to take instruc
tions. "I call it a sDecial kind
vir.mt. M.rPher. o Rcnju5 Tne producer and
director know what they want,
and you won't get anywhere act
ing temperamental."
7 An ability to wear clothes
well.
8 A feeling for people. "No
great artist in any line ever be-
eignty
king-emperor.
That is, the
articulate por
tions of India's
three hundred
millions as a
whole are
pleased,
w w v e r, p.; .
ire a few yf A
its which IJjf
OfHIll M.rKfHtl.
However,
I in re are
element
are bound tn be
rccrrttiil. Out
standing among them are the ,he paiac , ,ome of the grPIlt
hundreds of princes who have maharajahs. and attended one
lost their thrones since India viceregal function in New Delhi
was grunted independence near- which fajrlv blaIed with mil.
ly two years ago, and now see lions of donars worth of gems
u.r -"rrini oi me lsi lie wnn worn by forty 0f Inrfjg , princes.
tne imperial
phst.
"glories" of the
'Not beautiful, necessarily," comes reat without a superb
Brown added. "Many actresses instinct and love for just plain
have turned up with gorgeous humanity."
faces and never hit the public 9a good memory.
fancy. I am a gentleman. I ...
will not name names. But there loAnd, wa-a-ay down at
are a lot of beautiful mugs in the bottom, comes what most
the movies that belong to nice sweater girls figure's the best
girls who'll never be top stars and only way to crash the glit-
"By interesting. I mean a lace tering never-never land of Hol
that reflects feeling. lywood.
"Third you have to be in- "Yes. you need a svelte fig
dustrious. There's no easy way ure." Brown admits. "You
to the top in the movies. You notice I don't say sexy. Most of
have to work until you drop in the really top stars are too slim
your tracks. If you're lazy to be sweater girls. Thats not
some other actress will beat you very important in this business
to the good roles every time." anyway.
Those were the top three. But "And don't you go getting any
the next seven. Brown said, ideas I say that just because I've
were important, too. got gray hair. I may have been
making movies for 35 years
4 A good dispositnn. "This but I'm not too old to notice a
may sound -peculiar, but movie sweater girl now and then,
making involves a lot of "But I just look. I don't hire
other actors, writers, directors, 'em."
. . ' Back in 1918 I was for a
fortnight the guest of the late
Since India gained her free- Mah,r,jah of Gwalier. one of
dom. the native principalis ,he most powfrfui of the prin.
and their rulers have rome un- c
der control of the New Delhi w wer, chatting one dav
government. about tne reiationship between
Kven the Niiam of Hydera- the princes and the British gnv-
bad. reputed to be the world's ernment, and he emphasized the
richest man and the sovereign importance of the position of
of the greatest state in India, the king-emperor In the minds
has had lo bow to the new era. of the rulers.
The fate of the big state ot "Let me put It this way,"
Kalimir alone remains unset- said his highness. "The princes
tied pending a plebiscite among are five shillings in the pound
the people to see whether they for the government and fifteen
prefer In Join Hindu India or shillings in the pound for his
the neighboring Moslem do- majesty." (You get the point
minion of Pakistan. when you figure that there are
It is well that theae princes twenty shillings In an English
should go, for they are anarrh- pound sterling.)
Medical Student Gets Lesson
Morgantown. W. Va. ii Richard Tihor, first-year medical
student at West Virginia university, la learning his obstetrics
the hard way.
He delivered his own son yesterday.
Tabor had called a doctor and arranged for a hospital room.
Rut when he returned, the hahy was on Its war and he com
pleted the delivery. His wife and haby got tn the hospital 10
minutes later. Both ara "doing fins."
ON WAY TO OREGON
Family of Nine Gets Help
After Goods. Truck Burn
San Rafael, Calif. i4 Marin county was a hard place to leave
behind for a family of nine now bound for Oregon.
B. F. Cordova. 52. grandfather of the family headed for Harlan.
C)re., summed it up with "folks
around here have been mighty
good."
Last Thursday the family lost
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "Tha Wizzard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon
Her Bannister Slides Are Over
Scranton, Fa. "P Florence E. Dolph, who celebrated her
last two birthdays by sliding down the bannister In her home,
died Sunday 18 days before her 102nd birthday.
Born May 19, 1847, in Dickson City, Pa., Miss Dolph moved
to California in 1902, lived there 44 years and then returned
to Scranton.
The bannister slides last year and In 1947 were, Miss Dolph
said, to demonstrate her good health and agility. Her health
continued good until recently.
She was the oldest alumna of Lewisburg seminary now
Bucknell university.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Noise: Silence Out Loud
By HAL
New York Pi Sh-h-h-hhhhhf
Let no bird call. Don't make a
Abatement week.
Now is the
time for all
good men to
c r e e- p about
their tasks on
little cat feet.
Anybody who
makes an un
necessary sound
in the next sev
en days is cer
tainly" no 100
per cent Amer
ican. Americans
cooperate.
The signal for anti-noise week
was given by a strong, silent
many in Albany Gov. Tom E.
Dewey He didn't make a speech
about it. That wouldn't have
been right.
No. The governor issued a
muffled statement instead. He
said excessive noises were "one
of the hidden drawbacks of our
civilization."" , And he urged the
cit.zenry to organize noise
abatement groups.
Presumably, just to set an ex
ample, the discussion meetings
of such groups are conducted by
semaphore.
Anti-noise week started off
with a bang. Both congress
and the United Nations were in
session, thinking out loud as
usual
In the sports world, perhaps
the outstanding observer of
Noise Abatement week has been
Leo Durocher of the New York
Giants, known in exuberant
moments as "The Lip." For
days he has rivaled the clam.
But what he hasn't been saying
must be a mouthful. Maybe a
choked mouthful.
There is some uncertainty in
the public mind as to how to
celebrate Noise Abatement
week. This arises naturally
from the widespread confusion
over just what noise is and
what it isn't.
Noise basically can be de
fined as a sound made by some
one else that annoys you. The
trouble is that if you try to
shut the other fellow up you are
likely to get into an argument.
Then you both make strange
sounds that become noise to a
third party.
The only person who can
avoid noise is a hermit who
lives in the woods and can read
without moving his lips. But
sometimes even a hermit can't
escape from his own noise. He
BOYLE
Quiet, please. Quiet!
sound. This is National Noise
finds he is talking to himself
just when he wants to sit still
and think. He gets in the bad
habit of being quiet out loud.
One of the difficulties of
Noise Abatement week this year
is that it is running into some
pretty stiff competition. This
also happens to be National Boys
and Girls week, National Fam
ily week, American Camp week,
and National Baby week.
Yes, and your favorite cafe
teria feels free to serve any old
noisy soup it wants because it
is National Restaurant week.
And anybody who wants to
grind a knife sharp has a right
to. For it is National Cutlery
week.
It is even impossible to have
quiet around the house. Sure
'nough, it's Spring Cleaning
week, too.
You can't even beat your dog
for howling at night. This ia
Be Kind to Animals week.
Of course, there is some pre
cedent for having Anti-Noise
week now. It was in this period
four years ago that the biggest
noise in history abated the sec
ond World War in Europe.
If you're disillusioned about
Anti-Noise week, there is (mall
comfort ahead.
For it's National Hearing
week, and National Raisin week
and they merge into National
Frozen Food week.
Oh, yes, It's National Golf
week. And, yes again, it is
also National Packing week.
Do you ever feel like you're
in a package?
out we aren't alone," Cordova
said.
A plumber's helper, he had
all their worldly goods when "orn ior lour or
.i.. ....!. i .i.i-i. .u- five weeks In Los Angeles The
ine iruck in wnicn thev were
moving burned. They thought
they were destitute.
But a garage owner towed in
the burned wreckage of
truck free of charge.
Then a motel owner acroni
family decided to move to Ore
gon when a relative, Mrs Joe
Brra. Harlan, Ore., wrote there
(hf were lumber mill Jobs opening
nun iiirusiiig nvaiiauir.
With his son-n-law, Hugh
Rhoden, Cordova put their last
modated the family for a total $2oo in an old model truck and
charge of $7. And Saturday. the combined families set out.
citizens who preferred to remain Tht,y 0, far , s, Rafa,.
..,....,.. un- wnrn a defective battery term-
lucky family with S500 In cash in()i artrd the fjre,
u.r, .rurs 10 replace the n.w .ruckand with
new hope they drove out of
and
the original.
"This , thing happened to us here yesterday bound
among strangers, but wt found ward.
north-
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