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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, May 14, 1949
.Final Highway Decision Looms
",- The meeting of the state highway commission that
opens Monday will be one of the most important In its his
' tory for it will consider and adopt the highway program
, for the next two years, after two days of regular monthly
meeting to open bids and let contracts for projects already
'.included in its program.
On Wednesday and Thursday the commission will not
only decide what part of the Baldock traffic plan for
Salem will be included in the 24 months, the one-way
bridges over the Willamette connecting Salem and West
' Salem, the scheduled by-pass for highway 99E to the east
of the city to divert through heavy truck traffic from Sa
lem streets, and the proposed one way traffic street grid,
but also the proposed extension of the four-lane highway
(99E) from New Era to Salem. All these proposals are
vital to the future of the city and the elimination of the
present auto-truck congestion now being accelerated daily.
Eventually it is planned by the commission to extend
the four-lane highway from Portland to Eugene with four
lane stretches leading in and out of major communities.
The four-lane highway is completed from Portland to
Mew Era and the commission will decide on how much
more can be widened the next two years.
Oregon's deficient highways were recently cited by Dep
uty Commissioner J. S. Bright of the public roads admin
istration as one of the arresting reasons why the federal
government must spend $47 billion over a 10-year period
to meet the nation's existing transportation needs.
The deputy commissioner told the American Road Build
ers' association that surveys made in eight states disclosed
that this group alone had highway deficiencies needing
' immediate correction in the amount of $6,627,000,000.
Oregon's requirements, including state, and county roads
' as well as city streets total $261,627,000 to improve 7,210
. miles. The survey in Oregon was made by engineers
engaged by a legislative interim committee and its report
. led the legislature to increase gasoline tax and automobile
registration fees in order to provide additional funds for
the highway department to begin meeting the deficiencies.
The interim committee recommended the alternative of
1 10-year, 15-year or 20-year programs and the legislature
decided on the 15-year program and provided an increase
' in gas taxes and license fees to help finance it, which it
..is estimated will yield over $8 million for the 1949-50
, biennium. Of this amount the highway department will
receive an additional $5,600,000, the remainder to be dis
tributed to the cities and counties.
Salem is especially interested in both the widening of
" the Pacific highway and the Baldock plan, which has now
been endorsed, with proposed modifications by the long-range
planning commission, the city councils of both
. Salem and West Salem and the Marion and Polk county
- courts, and all should have delegations present at the
Tuesday morning session of the highway commission,
, for it is vitnl to the immediate future welfare and growth
..of the locality.
. Joe Dunn's Referendum
It is exceedingly unfortunate that Joe Dunn, who has
constituted himself as the Moses of the deluded old people to
lead them to the promised land of big pensions that nobody
pays, has instituted a referendum against the old age pen
sion bill passed by the legislature which provided a $50
pension per month for persons aged 65 and over as long
as funds are available. The petition has been filed and
. the signatures are being sought.
If the requisite number of signers are secured, and the
enforcement of the law delayed until November election,
the present law will remain in effect and the pensioners
lose guins over the old act which the new act provides.
Mr. Dunn, it will be recalled, showed his ignorance of
law when he drafted the initiative bill passed by the people
in November which not only provided no funds for pen
sion payments, but was unworkable, destructive of slate
.finances, and threatened bankruptcy. Something besides
, sentiment, sympathy, demngogtiery and ignorance are
needed in law making.
In this connection we quote from W. L. Arant of Cottage
Grove in a letter to the Oregonian as reflecting the reac
tion of many of our "senior citizens" :
"It is painful to read of the activities of the Joe Dunne group
of old people who still dream of something for nothing, a nice
pension that nobody pays. Bring in that age group myself, I
suppose I should join them. In these modern times we expect
to get state spending without taxation, power without fuel, time
without the sun, socialism without dictntion, sin without pen
alty, and pensions without revenues. H seems I am Just too
old-fashioned. Late political theories have not repealed the
basic laws of economics, nor will they ever.
"He who expects to eat bread without the sweat of his own
brow may conceivably be excusable In age and Infirmity; but
when he expects to do it without the sweat of someone else's
brow, he is the victim of pure hallucination.
"The legislature and tha governor acted wifely, and a refcr
' endum petition filed by the old people would be very regret
table." STORIES IN LIFE
Ducks Almost Wreck Plane
Anchorage, Alaaka, May 14 (UX A Jet pilot covered with
blood and feathers landed his fighter plana aafely today after
smashing through a flora of ducks while traveling 000
miles per hour.
First Lieut. Kelsey Wynns, Oklahoma City, Okla., said
ha was traveling In formation when auddenly a terrifi ex
plosion atunned him momentarily.
When he came to, he said, "I was covered with blood and
'I started to ball out."
He said he noticed, however, tha engint was still working.
"I dropped the wing tanks and headed back lo Elmendorf,"
Kelsey said.
After landing, an eiamlnatlon of the plana ahowed that a
duck had made a hole In the windshield the also of a man's
loot Tha eoekpll was covtred with blood and feathers.
Another duck had struck the plane's fusalaga making a
10-Inch hole. A third hit the right wing, smashing the gun
camera.
Mechanics cleaned 10 pounds of meat and feathers out of
tha plane.
Kelsey, except for being shaksa, was uninjured.
BY BECK
Actions for Regret
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lit' -mr TPN0t out ea tank and had the X
m fj HERE AT MIDNIGHT lJ WOOD GAS LETTERED V
UM WITHOUT ANV6AS.W ACROSS IT, HOW
ffl.ml AND YOU 6IT V MUCH IT RESEMBLES N .
tW THERE OAZINS ) THAT LAST GASOLINE HEI
mtmk. at ths moon. J. I pump i wanted Jyfir:
$(& jap
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Peoples Souls Differ Thus
Response to Religion Varies
By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
I Retft at Pagi', Spwnoai Church
The Almighty God seems to have taken particular pains to make
countless billions of people and things without duplication. As
far as people are concerned, not even are their fingerprints alike.
It is little won-,.. .,.
der then that
no two people
ever think ex
actly alike, or
react to situa
1 1 o n s exactly
.
.
g
alike.
A friend re
cently expressed
surprise that
two equally In-'
telligent people an. Own swift
accepted very
different religions, i noiea inai
the people he referred to didn t
follow the same groove in poll-
tics or profession either. They
didn't belong to the same lodges
or social sets, and one was mar-
rled to a blonde and the other
to a brunette.
One would think that men
whose apparent intelligence,
education, training, and experi-
ence would enable them to see
equally the course of justice
(men like the Justices of the
United States aupreme court)
would never render split de-
clslons. But they do render such
decisions, sometimes one vote
determining the issue. In the
matter of religion, intellectual
of comparable magnitude
throughout the world differ
widely in their thinking. Even
If religion wer purely an in-
tellectual affair It would be a
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Relief
QZ1
By DON UPJOHN
Always striving to please we're planning on a couple of weeks'
vacation starting Monday for the benefit of the customers more
than us This should be quite an alleviation during the hot weath
er. Thus they can become adjusted to the new daylight savings
regime without interference. .
The City Police Chief
(Independence Enterprise)
Lesel Reed,
local police of
ficer was called
Monday morn
ing to Third and
A streets where
he picked up
two stray cows.
The cows were'
taken to the po
lice station and
after a time the
owner found. ,w
The cows need
ed milking but Reed was unable
to find someone to milk them.
In Re Matter of Tin-e
Following letter from Fred A.
Williams, local attorney, to
County Judee Grant Murphy and
members of the county court Is
self-explanatory: "I take great
pleasure ln complimenting you
upon your stand on the question
of 'standard time.' I don't know
that it makes any particular dif
ference to others than the tax
payers and the laboring men
what time the state employes
and 'daylight savings fiends' get
up or go tq bed so long as the
latter does not Interfere with
business normalcy. However,
when It comes to disturbing the
state, legal and statutory 'set-up'
Freckles Has His Doghouse
Denver U Freckles had his doghouse all to himself today.
His roomer of the last two weeks, eight-year-old Georgo
Raspberry, was In the custody of state humane officers who
hope to Iron out his domestic troubles.
Little George, an anusually alert and bright Negro boy,
told officers that he had run away from home oceans "I
was anabl to get along with my stepfather."
The youth aald ho alept la the doghouse with "Freckles,"
a browa and whit apoted terrier, when the weather was
nice. When It rained, as It has been doing In Denver for the
past four days, a broke Into a nearby attic. He at at the
home of boy friends.
Tonng Raspberry was arrested yesterday and taken to the
Juvcnll hems. Officials want to make sure that when the
boy does go homo h Isn't la the dog house with his parents.
"l'v just keen playing around since 1 left home," Georg
aald. "I didn't mind sleeping with Freckle because h
llktd m and kept m warm,"
long and tedious process, II not
an altogether Impossible one, to
convert people to one religion,
whether that religion be Juda-
Ism, Shlntoism, Buddhism, Mo-
hammedianism, Christianity, or
line UI II1C ninny uuiris. uut
religion is much more than an
intellectual matter. Religion Is
more than a matter of the mind.
It is a matter of the soul. It Is
not merely a matter of knowl
edge. It Is a matter of faith.
Because peopie', souls, like
thdr m,ndSi are dlfferent( thejr
response to lhe things of the
oul gre different, Tni, ta why
,e worshlp God ln vari0us
f Thij variety of worship
probably isn.t a, bad we
sometimes think, for God him-
Kit seems to love variety, in
that he has made so many
countiess billions of unlike
things. Anyway, even a human
being wouldn't want everyone
ele t0 bow to him in the same
manner, or address him in exact-
jy the same words. It is well
to remember, while we props-
gate our own faith, that people
qulte as intelligent, as educated,
and ai experienced as we are
may ngve a conception of God
which Is as genuine to them as
ours is to us; and, because of
their sincerity, as pleasing to
God.
with a city ordinance it Is some
thing different Sometimes it
occurs to me that the retirement
age of state employes should not
depend upon years but upon the
state of their dotage. Further
than that affiant 'sayeth not.'
Congratulations on your stand
for stable government." (Copy to
Hon. David O'Hara, slatehouse,
Salem, Oregon.)
tncky 11
Pittsburgh W) Robert John
son whose name counts up to 13
letters, was arrested, charged
with drunkenness and lodged in
cell 13. His was the 13th case
In police court yesterday, which
was Friday the 13th Police
Magistrate W. H. M. McDiarmid
studied the evidence and an
nounced: "Case dismissed."
Those letters, of course, add up
to 13.
Chicago W Are you super
stitious, or do you think super
stition Is a lot of bunk? Well,
the National Safety Council
made a survey to find out how
superstitious people are about
Friday the 13th. It was the only
day-by-day check ever made by
the council on motor vehicle
deaths. The result? Friday the
13th was 17 percent safer than
the two Frldaya preceding and
the two Fridays after that date.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
FDR, Jr. Has Tammany Boys
Worried Over Tuesday Vote
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Tammany politlcos who have kibitzed the Man
hattan rallies of Franklin D, Roosevelt, Jr., are definitely wor
ried. They have been forced to admit the kid has Inherited the
old man's charm.
In fact, they are beginning to wonder if he may not run off
with the election
to the late Con
gre limn Sol
Bloom's seat
when the votes
are counted next
Tuesday.
Here is the
sort of thing
that happens
when "Junior"
as Tammany
calls him
stumps Manhat-
tan's mid-town twentieth dis-
trict:
A lady with a baby, after
Franklin passed, cried in ecstacy
to the child, "he saw you; he himself, the white Mouse an
spoke to you! My child, he spoke nounced that Clay would be re
to you!" lieved on May 15. Clay's friends
A crowd of thousand nd advisers immediately start
Negroes and Puerto Ricans, on ed some backstage wire-pulling
Columbus avenue, crowded to keep the general In office, but
around his sound truck and kept when Truman makes up his
him answering questions for an mind. It usually stays made up.
hour. NOTE Just a few days prior
A wounded sailor who served to this, Richardson Bronson of
on the same destroyer with the decartelization branch,
young Roosevelt, called from a severely criticized in the Fergu
crowd: "I want to see my old son report, was telling friends
"exec" elected!" not to worry about the Ferguson
A Puerto Rican woman, as a report because his friend, former
meeting broke up, cried: "I pray Undersecretary of the Army
he gets elected; he's our hero!" William Draper, had put the
At the end of a day of this "tlx" In at Washington. Appar
sort of campaigning. Franklin ently Mr. Draper, of the For
implored liberal party worker restal Wall Street banking firm,
Mrs. Benjamin Pollack, his law didn'4 have the fi fixed secure
partner's wife, "listen, you got
to do something to protect me
from the women!" Real fact was that Senator
Byrd of Virginia wasn't the only
Inside fact about Gen. Lucius solon blasted by President Tru
Clay's retirement as U. S. mill- man when he visited with off i
tary governor of Germany was cials of the American veterans
that he didn't want to be retir- committee the other day.
ed at this time at all. Truman About Mississippi's turbulent
forced his hand. John Rankin, Truman said: "I
Clay had been sending mes-.can understand him personally,
sages to Chief of Staff Omar but as a legislator the unfortu
Bradley, complaining that he nate gentleman baffles me."
was tired and ill and wanted to Indiana and Missouri were
come home. But close friends "about even," Truman averred,
say the general had expected ln having the "worst" represen
Bradley to urge him to stay on. tation In the U. S. senate. Asked
He wanted to see the new Ger- whether he would choose In
man republic finally set up. So diana's Senators Capehart and
Clay got the shock of his life Jenner, both republicans, or
when, alighting from a train in Missouri's Senators Donnell and
Germany on May 3, he was In- Kern, also republicans, the pres
formed that his retirement had ident retorted cheerfully:
been officially announced by "Oh, my own state always
the White House. comes first with me."
What actually happened was AVC Chairman Gilbert Har
this. President Truman just rison asked the president wheth
happens to have been one of er he would "go back to the
the senate crusaders against people" if congress ditched most
cartels and monopolies. In fact? of his legislative program.
It was his expose of Germany's "Well, I hope I won't have
I. G. Farben and its conspiracy to," Truman replied. "That's
to control rubber and synthetic up to congress."
Oregon's Muny R.R. Hos Wreck
Prinevllle, Ore. (U.R) The city of Prineville railroad, Ore
gon's only municipally-owned railway, had Its first wreck
In the memory of its oldest employes last night.
Five cars became detached from a switch engine on a
grade near a lumber mill, rolled downhill and collided with
four cars standing on the main line.
Three cars were derailed and one toppled over, almost
blocking a main Prineville street. Workmen were clearing
the line today. No one was Injured.
The railroad began operations in 1918. It runs westward
19 miles from Prinevllle to Prineville junction, where it con
nects with the Central Oregon line.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Moscow Advocates Collaboration
By OeWITT MacKENZIE
(OP) rortlf Adtlra Antlyit)
The Moscow radio which of course speaks with' the voice of the
Kremlin broadcasts that collaboration between the American
and the Russian economic systems is both possible and desirable.
That's a high
ly impor tant
statement,
whether you re
gard it with sus
picion or with
hope. It's par
ticularly inter
esting, coming
as it does al
most on the eve
of the Big Fourj
conference set
DaWIU Sftckensl
for May 23
I see no quarrel with the
thesis that American and Rus
sian economic systems might
collaborate, despite the ideologi
cal clash between th two na
tions. Communistic and democratic
nations have similar economic
needs. They must b fed.
clothed and housed, and life
otherwise must b mad worth
while. Surely th-y should be
able to engage In economic oper
atlons
menu.
This
to meet these require-
r'.'v.M!" "".'i! tntliCtt
with the truism that democracy
and- communism cannot m i x
Ideologically. They are oil and
water.
However, when we say that
in , uuicung ccununiii
systems might collaborate we
must add a proviso. Such eol-
laboration calls for a sntrit of
amity. And it calls for non-ln-
lerierrnce in eacn ouir a in-
temal affairs.
This touches a difficulty
which frequently has put a
strain on Russo-Amerlcan rela
tions ever since the establish
ment of th Soviet government
Washington refused to recogniz
W"m 1 "!
gasoline with Standard Oil of
New Jersey which first shot the
Truman war investigating com
mittee Into the headlines.
On April 29, therefore, th
president read the report of fed
eral trade commissioner. Gar
land Ferguson, on the U. S.
army's failure under Clay to dis
band I. G. Farben and other
nasi cartels. Calling ln an
aide. Truman said:
"Now Is the time to get rid
of that top sergeant in Ger-
many." ,
Three days later, and much
to the dismay of the general
the new Russian state until 1933
because of Moscow's persistent
efforts to spread communism in
the United States by means of
propaganda and the employ
ment of Red agents.
Britain, who recognized th
Soviet ln 1924, encountered sim
ilar communist activities and
mad frequent raids on the Rus
sian trade company's headquar
ters in London. Finally London
broke off relations in 1927 and
didn't resume them again until
1929.
When President Franklin D
Roosevelt recognized the Soviet
Union it was with th specific
understanding that all Russian
communist propaganda should
? ln America. However, ac-
uvuies ox ine cominiem (gen
eral staff for world revolution)
continued to cause so much heat
in foreign countries that in 194?
Russia "abolished" that body,
" eIU wwaroa ner am.
since in war 'inv comin-
Comintern, and th world revo-
lution goes on. Canada has un
covered her big spy ring with
ramifications reaching into the
United States and Britain, and
convicted a number of agents.
Tne united states nas had a
constant procession of Invest!,
gitlons and prosecutions lnvolv-
i-- AMi.n ......... c
testimony brought out Is enough
to curl your haid.
Well now. It doesn't take mnMi
Imagination to see that then
harrowing conditions would
have to be altered before there
could be hearty collaboration,
economic or otherwise, be-
twee a Russia and America.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
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ODDS OF 8
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BECOME HOUSE
WIVES WHEN THE.
FINISH SCHOOL.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Difficulty Encountered in
Balancing Expense Accounts
By HAL BOYLE
New York f) It is night out and cold rain is falling.
And the darkness outside is matched by an equal darkness In
my mind.
Before me on
our antique wal
nut desk (Grand
Rapids, Circa,
1938) is spread
a paper of doom.
It is covered
figures of finan
cial disaster.
Across Amer
ica at this mo
ment, in homes
ind hotel rooms,
Drobablv 100.000 fellow citizens
I fM B
KIWI
are staring at similar disheart- sold Ned eight apples at th
ening documents. ' rate of three for a quarter, how
aj v. , ,v,. v much would he have If Jim
And they have the same prob- djd b , t
lem I do. They are filling ou wha, Jft have
expense accounts. And what ,f , how to lm t
they are trying to do is to rec- 8ccounts And the teher
oncle lifelong principles of hon- M to be yelIow Kld WeU
esty with a selfish desire to stay th retlred conlidence man.
out of bankruptcy. The object
is to break even. But how can , The should also be taught
you? two standards of honesty. On
. ' , . . , , would hold in all general deal-
I have just come back from fcI,ow mn
a trip. And where did the oth , more elastic standard,
money go? For the life of me wou,d hold , accountlng, y01
I can't figure t out. I must , , d , ,",;
have been throwing it away with , . ,. . ,
both hands and kicking it away ny men avoid losing
with my feet. Yet I don't re- "jeir own money in filling out
member renting any dance swindle sheets I recall
bands, buying Brooklyn bridge, the day we hit the beaches of
or bathing in champagne. A'rica with assault troops. That
. v i v night we all slept ln a roadside
Nor do I recall having been .
robbed, except in the informal , , . x
ways customary in an advanced By dawn's early light next
state of civilization. But I can't morning I espied a newsreel
account on paper for much more comrade sitting on a rock and
than half the money I drew for yPn out hU expense account
the trip i,t opening Item said: "Hotel
n '..! ,j room for first night in Africa
All roving newspapermen and ..
traveling salesmen have the There was a man to r-
same trouble. Who started this member.
OPEN FORUM
Pick Flaws With Pension
Law Passed by Legislature
To the Editor In your editorial of May 10 you say "Governor
McKay is to be commended for signing the old age pension law
passed by the legislature."
I don't believe many of the "
voters who passed the people's surgical, nursing and all of
pension bill by a sizable major- which seems quite dubious as
ity at the last election, will agree that also depends on whether
with you. After watching the sufficient funds are available,
maneuvering of the legislature As I see it the law simply
to knock out that bill, I am not amends the law under which th
surprised" ' that the governor public welfare commission Is
signed the substitute bill which now working, by putting som
was seemingly sponsored by the teeth Into it; Viz. by giving th
public welfare commission, and state a prior claim on the estates
seems to have been a partisan of old age beneficiaries, and, by
measure. a companion law providing that
The people's bill was declared children of parents eligible for
unworkable, presumably be- relief shall contribute to their
cause no provision was made for support if they are financially
financing it. If a sales tax had able to do so.
been incorporated in the meas- The attorney general states
use - there would have been no that a prior claim does not con
hue and cry about bankrupting stitute a lien, but anybody
the state, as the consumers knows that such a claim may be
would pay the pensions. In the come a lien ln short order If de
state of Washington a pension sired.
law financed by a sales tax has As to children supporting -
been in force for a number of their parents; Who is going to
years, and people seem to have check on their ability to do so,
overcome their dislike of a and who is going to enforce the
sales tax, and the old people are law? In my opinion It will be as
happy. I know some of them, difficult as enforcing the anti
The legislative bill is work- gambling law which everyone
able because it promises no knows about; Passing the buck
specific amount of pension, but from state to counties and vice
will pay $50 a month if suffi- versa.
clent money Is available. It also E. F. WALDEN,
provides for medical, dental, 3845 Portland Road.
GARBAGE CAN IN ODD PLACE
Pranksters Give Graduate
Manager Perplexing Problem ,
Pullman, Wash., May 14 (" Graduate Manager Robert Brum
blay of Washington State college had two problems:
1. How did pranksters get a garbage can on top of a 100-foot
campus flagpole?
2. How could be get it down?
He solved the second problem neatly while a crowd of students
stood by with such helpful comment as "Go climb 'er. Bob.
Brumblay taped a stick to the pole rope, ran It to th top of
pole, and crowded the can off its high perch.
He still doesn't have the answer to the first question.
STORIES IN LIFE
Thieves Take No. 5 Green
Detroit 0JjnSomeone tt Bgn,Ber fTt grMB ,t
the Warren Valley Golf club.
Th thieves expertly cut and rolled up lis squar feet of
expensive bent grass around the cup. They left th kola. J
Investigators agreed it was record divot
YOUR CAR RADIO
IS PROBABLY IH WORK
ING CONDITION -ODDS ARE
JUST 9 TO I IT IS. ,
'
nonsense about calling an ex
pense account a "swindle sheet?"
Tha difficulty Is ln keeping It
from swindling you. With ma
the point of no return starts
when I sit down to fill out an
expense account.
Why don't schools prepare a
youth for life as it must be liv
ed? I remember frittering away
my time in arithmetic on prob
lems like:
"If John sold Jasper four
apples for ten cents each and