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4 Salem. Oregon, Tuesday, May 24, 1949
Off-Street Parking Solution
At the next meeting of the city council an ordinance bill
will be introduced to levy an occupational tax on businesses
and professions to finance an off-street parking project
in the city.
The council Monday night received the report and rec
ommendations of the mayor's special committee on off
street parking. One of the recommendations was that an
ordinance be prepared imediately, and the council acted
accordingly.
The occupational tax would be a lijrht one, ranging from
$10 a year for small businesses to $100 for large depart
ment stores, and would produce an estimated $30,000 a
year.
The committee proposes to establish various free and
metered parking area in the downtown. South Salem,
University, and Hollywood business districts. Surveys
of those districts, the report said, reveal that about 800
parking spaces can be had by leasing of properties that
are either vacant or occupied by obsolete buildings.
The committee haa prepared a schedule for the tax on
all occupations. The estimated revenue of $30,000 "would
permit the rental, preparation and maintenance of perma
nent parking lots in all surveyed areas."
Parking lots in the congested districts could be metered,
the committee said, and made self-supporting.
Members of the special committee were Kenneth Perry,
chairman, Carl W. Hogg, Ralph Nohlgren, Robert DeAr
mond and Russell Bonesteele.
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom told the council he believed
the committee had come up with the right answer to the
parking problem.
The extra tax is necessary if the city budget is to be
kept within the legal 6 percent limit and the business in
terests are those most directly benefitted. This procedure
has been followed successfully in some other cities. . The
usual procedure is for the city to purchase the property
and lease the premises to operators on long term bases, to
insure its being utilized for parking.
In some cities, the merchants organize corporations to
finance the off-street parking projects, by subscribing to
stock and either leasing the operators or having the cor
poration operate it. In such cases the temptation to sell
at a profit to the stockholders is sometimes too great to
insure permanent parking facilities, the principal objec
tive. Dunne Deluding the Aged
What the proposed referendum on the old age pension
law passed by the legislature to replace the unconstitu
tional and invalid initiative bill passed by the electorate
last November means to the pensioners is well set forth
in a statement published in the Oregonian, written by
Bardi G. Skulason, a Portland lawyer long interested in
the aubject and a member of the state welfare commis
sion. The legislative act establishing a $50 pension policy
would be suspended immediately on filing of sufficient
signatures to the referendum until the November, 1950,
election, leaving the Dunne initiative measure in effect.
It has been declared unworkable by the attorney general
and the federal security board.
. As the Dunne act contravenes federal law, federal funds
would be withheld from Oregon, which would mean a re
duction in the average old age pension from $50 to $21 a
month, and the needy aged cannot live on $21 a month.
The referendum will do all this and more. Skulason states :
Of the $28,577,856 allocated to old-age assistance by the ways
and means committee. $14,897,950 is federal match money;
the remainder coming from the state and the counties. No fed
eral money would be forthcoming as long as the Dunne bill re
mained in force, because its provisions fail to conform with the
federal pattern; whereupon the entire pennon load would fall
on the state and the counties, in fact, on the state alone, because
the counties have already reached their limit.
Under the mandatory provision of $50 a month fixed by
the Dunne bill the amount required for the two years would be
$31,920,000. To meet that there would be on hand only the
$13 880.000, state and county money, and the state would be
railed upon to make up the difference, namely, $18,240,000.
Dividing that state and county money among the 26.600 cases
for the two years would reduce the pension to $21 a month.
Under the present set-up enough money has been pro
Tided to pay a pension of $50 a month and more if congress,
as now seems likely, should raise the amount of match
money. Why substitute $21 a month for an assured $50?
And that is what a referendum would do.
BY BECK
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Norblad Holds Up Medal
To Vaughn From Peron
y DREW PEARSON
Washington The army almost slipped the famed Argentine
medal for Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan past the house armed services
committee the other day.
The diamond-studded Order of San Martin, given to the presi
dent's military aide by Dictator Peron, was handed to the state
department after it was pre-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
sented to Vaughan at gala Ar
gentine embassy reception
But Vaughan
now wants the
right to wear
his medal, and
to that end his
name was bur
ied in a list of
87 army offi
cers also dec
orated
eign
rated by f o r VC""5V.
ign govern-Jl JJ jTN
tents, all offA V 1 J
horn must be sM ilsl
History sometime hinges on
little things. If it had not been
for a telephone call just a
little more than six months ago,
another man would be in Paris
today representing the United
States at the most important
diplomatic conference since
Potsdam.
That man is Lewis Douglas,
Ambassador to Great Britain,
former head of Mutual Life In
surance, and inheritor of one of
the great American copper for
tunes. Few people know that
udge Is Irritated
kyigton Park, Calif. UK John G. Fraiier, (S, will be
trit&ane t for laughing so loudly that be spoiled a judge's
luncl
Junice of the Peace Stanley Moffatt filed peace disturbance
charges recently before Judge Charles G. Hedgecok, charg
ing that Fraiier refused to quit bis loud laughing in a cafe
where the justice lunched.
Fraiier pleaded innocent and waa granted a jury trial.
"I wasn't anxious to press the charge until I found out
Fraiier was leading a life of luxury on tbe money he plans
to get from a false arrest suit against me," Moffatt said.
"I think he deliberately set out to antagonize me. I don't
normally object to a laugh but Fraiier's isn't human. It isn't
like any laugb I ever heard. It sounds like a giraffe laugh."
Fraiier didn't laugh once during yesterday's proceedings.
He posed for picture and talked with friends but avoided
Moffatt.
"I don't ever want to see him again," said Fraiier.
whom must he
ress. The list came before the . phone Pv'"ted hu
house armed services committee bKomlng 'ry f
as a routine matter, and the hear- Th1 Phone call was placed by
ing droned on all morning with- Lou'' Johnson, then chairman of
out incident Then, just before the Truman Finance Committee
the vote, Oregon's alert young nd in desperate need of funds,
congressman, Walter Norblad, Johnson called Douglas early in
spied Vaughan's name. the morning in Paris where he
"Wait," he broke in. "This le- was attending a United Nations
gislation would authorize Harry meeting, got him out of bed
Vaughan to get the famous Ar- and told him that the demo
gentine medal, I take it." crats were scraping the bottom
LL Col. Philip Hooper, who of the campaign barrel. They
was presenting the army's case, needed money and needed it
flushed like a little boy caught badly. Truman had given Doug
in a naughty act las the highest plum in the en-
"It would," he admitted. tire field of diplomacy, and now
"I see the name," Norblad di- Truman needed help in return,
rected, "on Page 2. Line 5."
Thats correct," agreed Col
onel Hooper, counting the lines.
"That," Norblad repeated, "is
the Argentine medal. I take it."
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MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
The Future of Germany
Is Important to World
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
vjn ForetSB Aatlrstl
Monday marked the opening of what bids fair to be the most
important phase of the "cold war" the Big Four foreign minis
ters' council meeting in Paris to try to decide the future of
Germany.
Chairman Carl Vinson of Geor
gia suddenly took more interest
in the proceedings. He could see
no rush, he said, in approving
these medals.
"There is a t i m e for every-
Ambassador Douglas listened
sleepily, replied that he had no
money to spare. Later, when he
was fully awake and back in
London, he thought it over again
and wrote Johnson a letter. But
he still had no money to spare.
Truman, at that time accord
ing to all the polls had no more
chance of winning than Norman
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
What Is the Reason Great
Men Take Their Own Lives?
By HAL BOYLE
New York W1 More people take their own lives in a cold
war than a hot war.
This truth of history is emphasized by the death of the nation's
first secretary TmJ
r4 rffnc ? V
Should it
prove to be pos
sible for Russia
and the three
western democ
racies (Ameri
ca, Britain and
France) to
agree, then we
might see the
end of the cold
- U -
Mtekcasl
now is divided into four zones
occupied by the four allies. Rus
sia has in effect isolated her
eastern zone from the other
three, and has engineered the
creation of a German govern
ment labeled the "people's con
gress" for that area. The Ger
man people of the British,
French and American zones,
however, have got together and
agreed upon a constitution r re-
war itself. But D.W,,,
me issues are tj federal republic,
so controversial, and the stakes . ,
are so high, that not to be friv
olous with a grave subject we
should keep our fingers crossed
,: ,h. .
In dealing with this confer- . V" " . "IZ C
ence it is necessary to repeat ,on ,of the Sov,et ne wlth
what our column has pointed wtern IO,nes ,he .new f'
out numerous times: the future republic. Russia is expect
of Europe depend, heavily on ef to counter with the demand
th. fate nf r.ermanv j,.- . h th western zones join the
The foreign ministers' council
presumably will have before it
two proposals which are at ut
ter variance. One from the west-
thing." he philosophized. "Let us Thom- But Douglas didn't put
let this time go by and take up ' on th,t ground. He put it on
something that is more urgent " the ground of poverty and the
Louisiana's Congressman Ov- 'act that he w" serving in a
erton Brooks, who introduced nonpolitical job probably the
the bill for the army, objected, ,irst time in history that the
since the committee had already ambassadorship to London was
approved 37 foreign decorations classed as nonpolitical.
for navy officers. After Truman astounded the
"Two wrongs don't make a world by winning in November,
right," cautioned Vinson. "We he looked around for a new
should hold these up a little secretary of state and knowing
while and let them rest. We nothing about the money-rais-
don't have to be in too big a ing phases of the campaign, hit
hurry to do this. We have other upon Douglas. In fact, he was
things to do." about to appoint Douglas when
The committee voted with suddenly Louie Johnson walk-
Vinson and Norblad, so General ed into the White House with
Vaughan will have to wait be- a copy of Douglas's letter in
fore he can wear his coveted his pocket.
bax,'r. ... ... Truman read Douglas's plea
NOTE It is significant that of poverty. He knew Douglas's
the army sent the house armed famUy had developed some of
services committee a detailed the wealthiest copper mines in
private list of officers, telling ArizoM He knew Douglas,
why each medal was awarded. Ariz., w named for his grand-
In most cases, some act of he- fatner. He knew DoUgia, had
roism or patriotism was cited. b.eri chairman of the wealthy
But opposite Vaughan s name Mutuai Life Insurance Compa-
was written: 'The department v H. Hrnnneri the of mk-
ui wie army nas no imonnauon
James Forres
tal. He is the
third major
states man in
the post - war
world to kill
himself. The
others were
John G. Winant.
former ambas
sador to Brit-
mm
In many countries the cor
nered leader has chosen self-destruction
rather than submit to
capture. He hopes in this way
to stay a hero in his people's
eyes. So Brutus impaled him
self on his sword, Adolf Hitler
shot himself, or is supposed to
have, and Tojo put a bullet
where he thought his heart was
but it wasn't. An American
rope finished Tojo.
But Forrestal, Masaryk and
ain. and Jan Masaryk of Czecho- Winant chose suicide in peace-
Slovakia, time, after surviving the strains
Forrestal . . . Winant ... of war. None was in disgrace.
Masaryk . . . why did they do None was hungry,
it? Then why?
It is always a ripple on the . .
commonplace when men in The probable answer is un
high places destroy themselves, bearable personal tension, a
Why did they kill themselves? feeling that life was no longer
All were well-to-do, respected, worth the ,truggie.
and seemingly had much to live And it is an fact that the
for. They were three men with tension of everyday living is
i 'hL Afferent philosophies of greater in peace than it is in
life They all traveled different war. Danger excites, tension de
roads, but the roads ended up stroys.
at the same blank wall. In world at peaCe n0 one u
A , trying to take your life. In war-
Forrestal was an investment time the enemy is. And the
banker and a realist Masaryk more he seeks your lUe the more
was a cultured and cosmopoli- you want to keep it if only
tan sophisticate. Winant was an through pure stubbornness. The
idealist.
mere fact he is after it makes
on this.'
ing
Douglas secretary of state.
iCoprrlsbt 1MS
the strategically situated Reich
communized "people's eongress"
was the economical - military .- ..
keystone of the continent before
the world war, so she is des- Naturally Paris is set for a
tined to play an important role possible storm. However, the
again in the rehabilitation and western allies are taking a
stabilization of Europe. strong stand, and indications at
More to the immediate point, the opening of the conference
Germany is the key to the out- were that if the Muscovites are
come of the cold war. Her dom- ready to unify Germany they
ination by Russia might permit can do so through the western
the Red offensive to push plan, otherwise Germany will
through to the English channel, remain divided. U.S. Secretary
thereby overrunning the whole of State Dean Acheson summed
continent. Free from Moscow's the situation up succintly Just
control, the Reich would be a before leaving Washington for
shield for western Europe Paris when he declared he
against communist aggression. would refuse to "barter away"
j ,0 Russ'a successes already
The great Issue of course is achieved by the west in build
the unity of a Germany which ing a democratic Germany.
? 'v
Chin Whiskers Disliked
Los Angeles uPi An unemployed machinist shot and killed
a man he never had seen before because "I don't like his
chin whiskers," police said.
Sylvester E. Eaton. 45, killed the bearded stranger with a
.38 caliber pistol.
The victim, musician William G. Whatley. 17, was on the
way to a grocery store when he was shot in front of Eaton's
rooming house, officers said. He was the divorced father of
four children.
Eaton told police that a "bunch of men have been keeping
me from getting a Job." He said "everybody was after me."
As Whatley pitched into the gutter, Eaton calmly went back
Into his rooming house and told his landlady to call the police
and a doctor.
When police came, Eaton was sitting In a chair, his bead
in bis hands.
"Yes. 1 shot him." he aaid. "I didn't like his ehin whiskers."
He was booked on suspicion of murder.
James Stewart to Wed Screen Actor James Stewart as
sists Mrs. Gloria Hatrirk McLean with her coat at a Holly
wood night spot. Earlier, Stewart announced their engase
ment and said they plan a simple wedding in August. (AP
Wirepholo)
Danny Won't Do It Again
Pittsburgh, Mar 14 ( Shur and It'll be a cold day In
Donegal before Danny Conahue takes another ride In his
mother's laundry sciute. '
Nine-year-old Danny has been aick the past few days
nothing serious. Mind you. Just enough to make him "sort
f resile:' laying In bed. his mother reports.
Yesterday, Mrs. Donahue looked In at Danny's room.
Danny wasn't there. A search aneovered the youngster all
71 pounds of him In the laundry shutt, stuck halfway be
tween the first and aecond floors.
Mrs. Donahue railed firemen. They tried ropes and poles
but Danny was stuck for shur. 8a the firemen brought out
their axes and tore out enough wall to let Danny slide the
rest of the way to the cellar.
Rack in bed again, Danny explained he just wanted to see
If he tould fit In that sciute. He knowa now.
Scotch Foils Burglars
London U Authorities said today that Earl Butty's
Scotch whisky had more bite In It than a bevy of walchdogv
When three burglars broke Into Earl's manor at Astrop
park. Northamptonshire, they found the Earl's Scotch supply.
Aa a result they triad to opea a targe sale with aUvar
Malaya Rat Specimens Aid to
Cut Down Typhoid Death Rate
By HARMAN W.NICHOLS
Un:lcl Prejj 8:ttt CorrcipOfKlnit
Washington (U B The circus was in town and so it seemed like
a good day to go to the zoo. Turned out it was.
Dr. William Mann, director of our zoo who runs a poor man's
circus of his own. never fails "T T T
to turn up something interest- congress doesn t seem to be too
i- v.. i... ii,Ji k. ,m. much interested in monkeys and
ing. Now he has talked the army .. . j. .
medical department out of some Umas- ,So . "ds . '.'T
20 rare specimens from Malaya, around to neighborhood grocers
. every dav or so to pick up the
Most of the animals are mem- lettuce ieaVes and spoiled ba
bers of the rat family and the , they mvt for him .
army came about them in an ... . .
honest way. We sent some of 1 md he rou"ds of new
our best scientist, to Malay, a "'i" Dr' "?""'.!
year ago to try out a new " "- . ' ,"" " "V
miracle drug called "chloro- blke' And J."5 " COn,',USed jjh!
mvcetin." It turned out to be oo man prides himself on being
. . ., one of the best authorities on
fiv for fvnii 1H 'whf. is nU mammal, in the world and
known as scrub typhus ijn(Je oM of hif new
Before the army could try the fe.
drug out on the natives, it had .Take this rattus canus." he
to cut through the Jungle un- said, pointing at a small, wease
derbrush and run down a flock ly looking creature hanging
of rats. The rats house dozens from a limb. "If, the only one
of "chiggers" in their fur and in captivity. The British Muse
the chiggers are the rascals that um has a tanned hide, but no
carry the disease. body in this part of the world
After the medicos had made ev" w liv on' "
sure the chigger, had taken a . RMu canus It turned out,
bite out of the hide of a rat h" 'rom. ntur?-
they tried out the drug. It work- A crooked thumb that is handy
ed, so they experimented with for tree-climbing
the natives. 4! Another prize in the collec-
. . .. . . ... lion it a little "cat" called a
.1 . ' ,rm iyphoid feli, minuta. If. a kind of wild-
used to be 30 per cent. But not ..,,, smallest of the Jungle
a single death has been record- feline,. The zoo has never had
ed since the drug has been used. one before
A temperature of 105 can be I know that Dr. Mann's lovely
reduced to normal in a matter mis5ufi Lucyi i, , , fn.
of hours, the army reports. cie, f animal, as the doctor
Anyhow, mankind', gain is himself. I asked him if she had
Dr. Mann's gain. too. And as I been over to see the new "catch."
said, he got the rats for nothing "No." he said. "Lucy', busv
just like he gets a lot of the tiger-sitting these days. She",
food which keeps the zoo going, nursing a baby cat and It take,
(He ha, a small budget, since her about six hour, a day."
But the realist, the sophisti- von nut higher vai n it
cate and the idealist all turned Another reason fewer people
to suicide as the only way out commit suicide in wartime is
of their problems that life has a common aim, and
In the cases of Wmant and people have more of a we-are-ForresUl
their death, were of- all-together feeling. They are
ficially blamed on overwork, also more unselfish.
?P? ' thu8ht, to have Long ago Henry Thoreau
killed himself when he realized wrote that most men "lead live,
he and hut country were prison- of quiet desperation." But as
er, of a foreign power. And long as they know they are
some believe, of course, that needed and wanted, they go on
Masaryk didn't go out hi, castle living, desperate or not.
window under hi, own power. Any goal or faith give, life
They think he was pushed. a purpose. This is why deeply
Traditionally, statesmen and religious people are less likely
generals commit suicide for to kill themselves than those
only one reason to avoid dis- less religious. And it perhaps ex
grace or to escape punishment plain, why fewer women com
Thi, was as true in ancient mit suicide than men. Women
Rome as it is in modern Ger- know their purpose in life bet
many and Japan. ter than men.
StSEffiiac3a$lIBHjfis
Learns English Fast
Nashua, N. H. WJ He could not speak a word of English
when he came to the United States from Larissa, Greece, three
years ago. But this June John J. Gardikes will be class orator
at graduation exercises of Nashua high school.
again.
They call
themselves the
(pronounc
ed "Ta-nuf-ta-pot-cub").
And
if that gives you
spot, before the
eye,, here s
what it stands
for: "The Na-
Just Like Salem
Dallas. Ore. un The sun come, up and the sun goes dowa
oter Dalla on clear days, just like It always has, but the scene
below is one of considerable confusion.
When the courthouse clock strikes 11 a.m. for Standard
Time, the siren atop the City ball across the street Is blasting
the aeon hour. Daylight Time.
Merchant ta to work oa Daylight Time, bat Polk eoanty
officers arrive an hoar later Standard Time.
One merchant told his staff to come to work oa Daylight
Time. In the confusion, be set hi, ewa clock the wrong way
and arrived at work two hour, late.
Tbe city council approved a change to Daylight Time, but
the county decided to remain on Standard Time temporarily
because of a special road tat election Friday set tor t a.m.
p ns. Itaadard Time,
FILM CAPITAL
Anti-Beboppers on March
By VIRGINIA MocPHERSON
Hollywood, May 24 (U.R) The "anti-beboppers" are on the
march, folks. Music-lovers are organizing to send the "bop-cats"
crawling back into their flatted fifths and make the world safe
tor ear -arums.
Bebop' routine Just for a gag."
Meakin said, "then I sat down
at the piano and batted out some
of my 'Cornball.' "
Next day the mailman stag
gered around with sacks and
sacks of that stuff that keeps
sponsors happy. Whole families
gave Meakin a three-cent pat
on the back and told him to
speed up hi, campaign.
"Sn we ctartcwl A,, t,,k u-
tional Fellow- beamed. "If, only been going
kin n th innwinl nn inH ... .
- iwo week, so far and we've
Preservation of the Cornball got ,lmost , thou5and niber,
Head of the new movement llred , d ,
i, Jack Meakin, musical direc- tie kids
tor for "The Great Gildersleeve" The -teen-agers, he vs,
radio show. And he way he ex- hav.en-t .., with him" yet
I'"!. S C,rnbaU" isn t exactly They're still "real gone" on the
the kind of music longhair, will -Bebop" flatted fifths. But Mea-
cheer about. kin take, , long range vjew of
But at least if, quieter than thi, thing.
"Bebop." If he can educate the moppet,
"If, corny. Sure." Meakin against "Scat Singing" and the
says. "But if, got a beat to it. "Bebop" mixture of wild note.
If, something you can Up your and dizzy rhythms, he sava, he'll
foot to. This Bebop ugh! hasn't have a whole new anti-Bop"
even got a tune." generation growing up.
"Cornball," as near as we can "And eventually." he add,
figure out, is a cross between Hopefully, "the flatted fifth
the old Dixieland Jazz and hill- boys will die out."
billy mountain tunes. Meakin Membership in the "TNFFTA-
tried it out on his "Mr. and APOTCB" is free. All you have
Mrs." television show with his to do to keep in good standing
wife, Patty, and found out he's i, send up a soul-piercing shriek
not the only one who goe, everytime anybody play, "Be-
"Vgh!" when he hear, "Set bop."
Singing." And tap your foot to "Corn-
"Patty and I put In aa "anti- ball," of course.
t.