Morse Opposes
Injunction Use
In Labor Bill
Taft Criticizes Pro
posal to Rely on
Congressional Action
Capital Jouraal
Author of CVA
Bill Objects to
idPopular Vote
3 Years Income
Taxes Awaiting
Official Audit
Commission Handi
capped by Lack of
Working Space
61st Year, No. 147
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Salem, Oregon Tuesday, June 21, 1949 (18 Pages)
Price
Washington. June 21 W Sen
ator! sponsoring various plans
for handling national emergen
cy strikes biased away at one
another s proposals today.
With Senator Morse (R-Ore)
ready to start the second chap
ter of a lengthy speech he be
gan yesterday, it was uncertain
when voting on tne controver
sial issue would begin. It was
supposed to begin yesterday.
Morse has been hammering
alike at the injunction proposal
of Senator Taft (R-Ohio) and
the "seizure" proposal of Sena
tors Douglas (D-Ill) and Aiken
R-Vt).
Dancer of Filibuster
In turn. Taft and Douglas, in
separate interviews, criticized
Morse's proposal to rely mainly
V on congress to act in each sepa
rate strike that imperilled the
national health or safety.
Taft said the Morse plan might
allow a filibuster to block any
congressional voice in the mat
ter. He said congress can't de
termine working conditions be
cause it is a "political arena."
Douglas said congress might
be unable to act with the speed
required in a national emerg
ency. Or, if congress did act, "it
might act in passion," he said.
Long Speech Looms
The senate expected to devote
a couple of hours to miscellane
ous small bills before gettting
back to Morse's address. He
spoke three hours yesterday and
said he had "given only the first
part of my speech."
Senator Lucas of Illinois, the
democratic leader, who had pre
. dieted that voting on national
emergencies would begin yester
day, told reporters he didn't
know whether it would be
reached today.
He said he "hopes" but is
not sure that the whole labor
bill can be finished by the end
of next week. Whatever bill the
senate passes to replace the Taft
Hartley law will be sent to the
house for consideration there.
(Continued nPajeS, Column 5)
, Cairo Pioneer
Ready July 10
Assurance that Camp Pioneer,
official outing center for Boy
Scouts of the Cascade area will
be ready for operation by July
10 when the first group takes
over was given by Gordon Gil
more, scout executive, upon his
return from the scene. Gilmore
was one of a group .of 38 adults
and boys who spent a portion of
last week at the camp cleaning
up and salvaging the wreckage
from the winter's snows that
flattened several buildings. A
similar group will return to
camp late this week to complete
the Job.
The party succeeded in clear
ing away the debris of the main
lodge found the floor in good
shape. It will be covered with
a large tent and used during the
camping season. The kitchen
. has been repaired, the water
mains leading from the reser
voir placed in condition and
other necessary tasks taken care
of. Salvage operations have
been highly satisfactory.
Shifting of the water tank
used as a storage reservoir in
its cradle constitutes something
of a mystery. The tank shifted
approximately a foot, giving a
bit of credence to the theory
-, that the earthquake of last win
ter might have been partially
i responsible for the damage in the
camp. The water lines' were
broken in numerous places.
However, this damage has all
been repaired.
New boats and canoes have
been secured and a corps of
water front instructors has just
returned from an aquatic school
with the latest In Information
concerning life saving tech
nique. Relief In Tax Plan
Portland, June 21 W Port
land businessmen won some re
lief yesterday from the city's
new license fee program. The
city council listened to the busi
ness appeals, then voted to con
sider as taxable sales only those
which go to customers In Portland.
WEATHER
(Released bv U. 8.
Weather Bureau)
Forecast for Salon and Vtclnl
ty: Partly cloudy tonight and
Wednesday. Little change in
temperature with lowest tem
perature expected tonight. SO de-
Gees: highest, Wednesday, SO
oderate winds will hinder dust
ing, ptherwtM conditions will be
favorable (or firm work Wed
nesday. Maximum yesterday 71.
Minimum today II. Mean tern-
rrature yesterday 62, which was
below normal. Total 94-hour
precipitation to 11:30 Sin. today
0 Total precipitation (or the
month .77 of sn inch, which Is
tvn of sn inch below normal. Wil
lamette river height at Salem
Tuesday morning -1.1 feet.
Governors to
Back Arms for
Western
Europe
Colorado Springs, Colo., June
21 W) Told that Russia soon
may be testing an atomic bomb,
many of the nation's governors
appeared ready today to back the
administration's arms program
for western Europe.
Although no official gover
nor's conference action may be
forthcoming, general reaction
was favorable to an appeal by
Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
for support of a program of arms
and fullweight economic aid for
western democracies opposing
communism.
It was Smith, former ambas
sador to Moscow, who told the
governors assembeld here for
their 41st annual meeting that
he thinks the Russians have
solved the problem of atomic
fission.
Say Russians Have Secret
He told a banquet crowd of
more than 400 persons in what
was announced as an off-the-
record session that the Russians
soon may test a bomb.
But Smith emphasized he
doesn't believe the Soviets have
the know-how to make the deli
cate machinery needed for re
mote control handling of atom
ic materials necesary for produc
tion of any large number of
bombs. He noted in this connec
tion that the Russians can't even
make matches yet.
As a "wild guess," he added
that it might take the Soviets 10
years or more to produce the
powerful type of bombs this
country has stockpiled.
Dewey for Rearming
Smith s call for backing of the
administrations $1,130,000,000
program to rearm Europe found
support from Gov. Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, the 1948
GOP presidential nominee.
Gov. ' J. Strom Thurmond of
South Carolina, the states rights
presidential nominee last year.
told a reporter Smith ought to
know what he is talking about,
adding:
"Im for anything, that will
preserve the peace." -Idaho's
republican Gov
Charles A. Robins said that the
United States having gone as far
as it has in supporting western
Europe, "might as well go the
rest of the way."
On domestic issues, Dewey
told reporters he is opposed to
either state or national health in
surance.
Senate Group OK's
75 Cent Minimum
Washington, June 21 W) A
senate labor subcommittee vot
ed unanimously today for a
minimum wage of 73 cents an
hour. It decided against trying
to extend coverage of the wage-
hour law to 8,000,000 additional
workers.
The seven-man subcommittee.
headed by Senator Papper (D..
Fla.), constitutes a majority of
tne 13-man senate labor com
mittee. So presumably today's
agreement means the full com
mittee is certain to recommend
wage-boosting legislation to the
senate.
Bus Strike Negotiations
Seattle, June 21 W) A secret
negotiating session has been ar
ranged in an effort to settle the
North Coast Greyhound lines
strike, which has virtually par
alyzed bus transpor tation
throughout the state since Fri
day midnight.
800 Red Hatted Fire Fighters
Go in to Oregon State Forests
Eight hundred red-hatted fire
siaie loresis toaay as summer arrived with relative humidity only
a little above the danger pomt.
niiuiner ouv wui oe on amy
Dy July 1.
The heaviest concentration of
trained fire-fighters rings the
Tillamook burn, that 800-square-
mile area which has been
burned and re-burned until its
small new growth and brush is
a dry-weather powder keg.
The plan for the Tillamook
burn has been dubbed "opera
tion powder .keg" by District
Warden Ed Schroeder of Forest
Grove. A 133-man first-alarm
crew can hit any fire In the
burn within 30 minutes after
the first report, Schroeder says
The fire-fighters can be at most
places, by racing over fire and
logging roads, within 10 min
utes. The 18 lookout stations in the
northwest district have all been
manned. Headquarters at For
est Grove is In radio contact
with the Salem forest headquar
ters and throughout the district
mobile and tower radios are in
Claims GE Saved
$40 Million al
Hanford Plant
Washington, June 21 W) A
General Electric company offi
cial told lawmakers today that
GE has made savings of $40,000,
000 to 150,000,000 a year In op
erations of the Hanford, Wash.,
plutonium plant.
The Hanford atomic opera
tion, which GE took over on Oc
tober 1, 1946, has been under
critical scrutiny by the Joint
senate-house atomic committee.
It is investigating charges of
"incredible mismanagement
made against the atomic ensr
gy commission by Senator Hick-
enlooper (R-Iowa).
Harry Winne, GE vice presl
dent, listed these as accomplish
ments of his firm at Hanford:
Lists Accomplishments
1. A "material increase" in
the output of production units.
2. A great reduction in the
amount of raw material required
to operate the plant. He said that
he believes that at present pro
duction rates "this reduction
alone will amount to an annual
savings on the order of $20,
000,000. 3. A reduction by 20 per cent,
with a goal of 30 per cent, in
the volume of "liquid residue"
which must be stored. He said
this would result in a savings
of more than $1,000,000 annually-
4. A material reduction in the
loss of plutonium in the waste
solutions.
5. Other changes resulting
from changes in methods, pro
cesses and organization, put in
to effect during 1948, which are
estimated to amount to an an
nual rate of savings of approxi
mately $3,900,000.
(Continued en Page 5, Column 0)
2 Carriers to
Be Modernized
Washington,' June 21 W
Secretary of defense Louis John
son, with President Truman's ap
proval, today proposed the mod
ernization of two aircraft car
riers at a total cost of $80,000,
000. Johnson made the announce
ment in departing from a pre
pared address to the 114 mem
bers of the graduating class of
the National War college. Pres
ident Truman presented the dip
lomas. In his prepared speech, John
son referred to the Soviet Union
as "conspiratorial" and "despot
ic." He said it is because of Rus
sia that the United States must
maintain a strong military ma
chine.
And this nation does have, he
declared, "a readiness and de
fense potential superior to that
of any previous period in our
nation's peacetime history" de
spite "severely contested" agree
ments among the armed services
that have hampered work of the
national defense establishment.
Johnson said too much trust
for defense should not be placed
on mere possession of the at
omic bomb.
In his impromptu remarks.
Johnson described the moderni
zation of the two carriers as an
answer to those who assert that
by the recent cancellation of
the navy's supercarrier there
was a conspiracy "either to sink
the navy's air arm or to reduce
the navy to a second class role
fighters moved into Oregon's
in uregon s 13 national forests
touch with Forest Grove, where
tools for an additional 700 fire
fighters are in readiness.
Schroeder said everything was
set to meet fire in the state's
worst danger-point and he ex
pressed concern that the crew
might be called out in full
strength.
The forests are dry. Today's
(ire westher forecast had this
report: Northwest Oregon
warmer, humidity about 40 per
cent on the coast. 39 to 40 per
cent in the interior valleys and
foothills and near 30 percent
on the east slope of Mount Hood:
Wednesday cloudy and cooler
with scattered light showers and
humidity about 90 percent:
southwestern Oregon, warmer
today with widely scattered
thunderstorms in the Csscades
this afternoon and tonight, hu
midity 40 percent on the coast
and 10 to 40 percent Inland.
Ji A
Prague Catholics Rally Around Arohblsliop Archbishop
Josef Beran of Prague is surrounded by members of his dio
cese as he leaves ancient Strahov monastery in visit which
marked end of his four-day semi-imprisonment in his Prague
palace. The archbishop was driven from his throne in St.
Vitus' cathedral by screaming hecklers, apparently commu
nists, as he voiced defiance to what he called the Czecho
slovakian communist government's attempt to split up the
Roman Catholic church in his country. (AP Wirephoto via
radio from London.)
Consistory Dissolved
To Thwart Czech Reds
Prague', Czechslovakia, June
has dissolved his consistory in
slovakia's communist government from using the church office
influence Catholic priests, reliable church sources said today.
The archbishop also was said to have asked his bishops and
priests to assume administrative-
autonomy and thus take over
most of the functions formerly
exercised by the consistory. It
was through the consistory that
Msgr. Beran normally issued his
letters and orders.
Informants said a government
official who had been stationed
in the archbishop's palace since
police occupied it a week ago
used Msgr. Beran's stationery to
send out an order demanding
that his latest pastoral letter
be withheld from the public.
The letter nevertheless, was
read by a number of priests to
their congregations. Some have
been arrested as a result, it was
understood.
Catholic church sources said
at least two and probably more
priests have been taken into
custody. They said police also
entered several churches early
Sunday in an effort to confis
cate the letter before it could
be read.
The letter accused the govern
ment of trying to undermine
Catholic ideology and to substi
tute Marxism for religion. It
denounced the government-
sponsored Catholic action move
ment as an attempt to split the
church and warned that there
could be no compromise on re
ligious freedom.
The Vatican backed up Arch
bishop Berap yesterday by de
creeing the automatic excom
munication of all who organized,
promote or join the movement.
One of the priests said to have
been arrested was identified by
Catholics as Father Tomas, rec
tor of the Tachlovice parish.
The name of the second priest
known to have been arrested
could not be learned, inform
ants said. They added that they
believe others also had been
taken into custody, but did not
know how many.
Probe Alleged Bribe
For Getting Contract
Washington, June 21, Chair
man Hoey (D., N. C), of the
senate investigating committee
announced an inquiry today into
the report of a $1,000 fee paid
for help in getting government
contracts.
Hoey said the investigation
will be based on "articles in the
New York Herald Tribune con
cerning a 'Washington five per
center'."
Hoey quoted the newspaper as
reporting that Paul Grindle, a
Massachusetts businessman, said
he paid the $1,000 to James V.
Hunt, "management counselor."
He Identified Hunt as a former
lieutenant colonel In the army
quartermaster corps and later
an employe of the war assets
administration.
Hoey said William P. Rogers,
chief attorney for the investi
gating group, will "make a com
plete investigation of all the
facts.
Purple Heart Chief
Portland, Ore., June 21 (UK
Lester Hawkins of Portland has
been elected state commander of
the Oregon Military Order ofibulldozer to Falrview home to
tne purpi Heart.
21 W- Archbishop Josef Beran
an attempt to prevent Czecho
No Depression
In Golden State
Sacramento, Calif., June 21 M)
It's official now. State legisla
tors decided by a 43 to 19 vote
last night that there is no de
pression in California. Not yet.
The decision came in the as
sembly, which rejected a motion
to advance a bill to "activate'
the 1943 relief act. This act pro
vided for aid to jobless who are
able to work, whenever a depres
sion should occur. The pending
bill would declare that a depres
sion is on and that the relief is
necessary.
The lower house also rejected
proposed three-cent and five
cent a package cigarette taxes to
finance a $36,000,000 increase in
state aid to public schools. The
school bill itself, however, was
sent out to reprint an action
that ordinarily indicates even
tual passage.
At both ends of the corridor
the rush to get special appropri
ation bills out was underway.
This was despite Governor Earl
Warren a announcement he will
not permit the state to go into the
red if he can help it, holding that
if more money is to be spent the
legislature should say how it is
to be raised.
Senator Jock B. Tenney (R.)
Los Angeles announced mean
while that he is out of the state
Un-American activities picture
after nine years as chairman
and two other years as a mem
ber of the committee.
He will not, he said, seek or
accept membership on the com
mittee If lt is recreated to func
tion in the future.
Czech General Is
Executed by Reds
Prague, Czechoslovakia, June
21 (PI Gen. Heliodor Pika, for
mer deputy chief of the Czecho
slovak army, was executed to
day at Pankrac prison, the Pra
gue radio announced. He was
sentenced Jan. 28 after a two
day secret trial on charges of
divulging secrets to the British
intelligence.
Communist President Klement
Gottwald had rejected an appeal
for clemency.
Bulldozer Downs
Underpass Wires
Communication lines beneath
the underpass on Portland road
were pulled down by a bulldoz
er aboard a truck-trailer a po
lice report disclosed Tuesday.
The report of the accident was
made Monday afternoon. The
driver of the truck, unaware of
the mishap, continued until he
was stopped by a Salem police
car. He was identified as Virgil
R. Dean, Portland.
The truck belonged to the Em
pire Construction company of
Portland
and was taking the
laid in sewer construction work.
W . packed
Mousing Bill
Washington, une 21 W) Ad
ministration leaders cracked the
whip over house democrats to
day in a hard drive to pass Pre
sident Truman's controversial
housing bill.
In advance of a meeting of
all 261 party members, they in
dicated they might try for a
two-thirds vote to bind virtu
ally all house democrats to sup
port the measure. And one lead
er noted that under party rules
a member is subject to "dis
cipline" if he fails to follow
such caucus instructions.
To Enforce Discipline
Discipline in party affairs
sometimes means a congress
man's loss of the right to pro
pose federal job-holders in his
districts.
However, a member is not
bound by a caucus action if he
feels his vote would violate the
constitution or his oath of of
fice, or if it would be contrary
to a commitment he made dur
ing his own campaign.
There has been a vigorous
southern rebellion against the
senate-passed housing bill, which
the house starts debating tomor
row. The measure calls for a vast
program of slum clearance, low
rent public housing and farm
housing aids. The cost is esti
mated all the way from $10,-
000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000.
South to Oppose
Some private estimates say
more than 60 southern demo
crats will oppose the bill. If re
publican leaders, arguing for
economy, can hold most of their
171 party members in line
against it, the vote will be close.
There were predictions that
the battle will end in passage of
a compromise bill providing
somewhat less than Mr. Truman
wants.
Meanwhile, backers and op
ponents tried hard to sell con
gress on their views.
The mayors of 46 large-cities
filed with House Speaker Ray-
burn (D., Tex.), a petition urg
ing immediate passage of the
bill. They said their cities,
neither "alone nor with the aid
of private enterprise, have yet
been able to provide sufficient
housing or clear our slums."
Sub Sighted Off
Florida Coast
Miami, Fla., June 21 (1
The coast guard said today an
unidentified submarine had been
reported off the south Florida
coast.
Then the coast guard said the
the hurricane-hunting squadron
in Miami searched an area
roughly off Cocoa and Mel
bourne during the night without
finding a trace of the craft.
When the coast guard said the
c?se had been listed as "classi
fied" and that no further in
formation could be obtained
here.
Comdr. O. D. Weed, said
coast guard headquarters in
Washington restricted the case
on orders from the navy.
Comdr. R. C. Knowlcs, USN.
skipper of the squadron, said
the submarine first was sighted
by a coast guardsman from the
beach near Miami. He said he
could not reveal the man's name.
University Women Criticize
College Education Courses
Seattle. June 21 (IP) Delegates
the educated woman in today's world as the 51st five-day bi
ennial convention of the American Association of University
Women reached the midway mark today.
A general session to advise "a
'special Interest" discussions.
Dr. MesU Glass of Charlotes
ville, Vs. chairman of the
AAUW fellowship funds com
mittee, announced that a total
of $117,529 the largest in the
association's history has been
raised during the past fiscal
year for furthering advanced re
search by women.
The sum brings the fellowship
fund to $927,211. Dr. Glass re
ported the AAUW awarded 27
fellowship for advanced re
search by women scholars last
year, and applications for the
31 fellowships offered for 1930
51 are now being received. Five
will carry a stipend of $2,000.
one $850 and the rest $1,500.
Presiding at today's general
session is Dr. Susan B. Riley,
vice president of the southeast
central region.
Special-interest meetings are
Kheduled on education, interna-
Jackson Opposes Ref
erendum by People
Of Northwest
Washington, June XI (P)
Rep. Jackson (D., Wash.), one
of the authors of the bill to
create a Columbia valley admin
istration, said today he opposes
holding elections to determine If
the people of the seven north
west states want such an agency.
Jackson also told the house
public works committee he op
posed a proposal that the board
administering the CVA consist
of five or seven members instead
of three and that the governors
of the seven states be permitted
to select them.
The committee is considering
an administration-backed bill
to create the new agency to de
velop the area's resources.
Replying to questions by Rep.
McDonough (D Calif.), Jack
son said the people elect their
representatives to vote on le
gislative proposals without re
sorting to referenda.
He also said he believes it
would be unconstitutional for
the governors to name the direc
tors of the proposed agency.
On the other side of the Capi
tol, Assistant Secretary David
son of the interior department
urged the senate public works
committee to approve legisla
tion to create the CVA. He ex
plained it would provide cen
tralized and more economical
and efficient development of
the Columbia basin.
Senator Cain (R., Wash.),
presented two amendments he
said were offered for "discus
sion purposes only." They would
permit the CVA to take over
all federal activities in the
basin.
Under the CVA bill, the
agency would take over only
the operations of the army en
gineers and reclamation bureau
in the Pacific northwest and
the Bonneville power adminis
tration. Jackson, under apparently
hostile questioning by the house
committee, yesterday stuck by
his assertion that a CVA would
bring about a more satisfactory
development of the Columbia
(Continued on Pace 5. Column )
Seek to Speed
Reoraanization
Washington, June 21 W)
Congressional leaders today
sough a way of approving Pre
sident Truman's seven new
plans to reorganize government
agencies without keeping con
gress in session until August 20
Under the reorganization law
passed last week, the proposals
Mr. Truman submitted yester
day normally would not become
effective until they had been be
fore congress 60 days without
being rejected by either house.
The most important of the
president's proposals would set
up a department of welfare
headed by a cabinet-ranx offi
cial. The other plans Involve the
bureau of employment security,
post office department, two na
tional security agencies, civil
service commission, maritime
commission and public roads ad
ministration.
With little opposition to these
reshuffling plans sighted, senate
and house leaders with the pre
sident's knowledge and the pri
vate approval of republican
leaders are aiming to avoid the
waiting period.
Their assumption is that con
gress may be ready to adjourn
before mid-August. If it does so
without taking some unusual
step to provide for the reor
ganization plans, they would
have to be submitted again next
year.
waded into the problems facing
program for our times" prefaced
tional relations, social studies,
status of women, legislative pro
gram, standards and recognition
the fellowship program, and the
arts.
A late-afternoon tour of Seat
tle will be followed by an "In
ternational dinner" at the Uni
versity of Washington, featuring
the assembling of United Na
tions flags and the music of all
nations.
"Frontier Crossing: Yours and
Ours" will be the subject of the
main address by Mrs. Mary Ag
nes Hamilton, director of the
American Information service of
(he British foreign office and
governor of the British Broad
casting company.
Yesterday, a report on a two-
year poll of the association's
117,000 members showed they
felt America's colleges f nil short
in providing women with an
adequate, rounded education.
By JAMES D. OLSON
Plans to eliminate the three
year backlog of unaudited state
income tax returns are being
formulated by Ray Smith, tax
commissioner In charge of the
income tax division.
Tuesday Commissioner Smith
held a conference with Harold
M. Cook, chief auditor of the
division and authorized employ
ment of additional help in the
auditing division.
"We are handicapped, howev
er," the commissioner stated "by
lack of working space. The old
commission had the same prob
lem and until the new office
building is completed, freeing
additional space in the old build
ing for the tax commission, we
do not expect to make too much
progress in catching up with the
auditing of the old returns."
Expansion Authorized
The 1949 legislature) author
ized the employment of more
than 100 auditors, accountants
and stenographers for the in
come tax division. The recom
mended budget of $1,995,755 for
salaries for this division was up
ped to $1,787,316.
Commissioner Smith stated
that it was the aim of the com
mission to bring the auditing
up to date as rapidly as possible,
and through this method, recap
ture thousands of dollars of un
paid state income taxes.
As soon as office space is
available all three divisions of
the tax commission, income tax,
assessment and taxation and
utilities, will again be located in
the old state office building.
Offices Scattered
At present only the income
tax division has offices in that
building, the assessment and
taxation division being housed
in the forestry building near the
state penitentiary and the utili
ties division at 375 N. Capitol
street.
Commissioner Smith also an
nounced that the Portland office
of the income tax division here
after will be closed on Satur
day, as is the Salem office, and
that the hours of the Portland
office will change from 8 a.m.
to S p.m., to 8:30, p.m. to 3:30
p.m.
The change In hours, Smith
said, was to give workers an ad
ditional half hour to transact
business with the office. Longer
hours will be maintained dur
ing the tax rush, however. Smith
said.
East Scorched
By Long Drought
IBT Unit Frfji)
Summer arrived In America
right on schedule today while
the worst drought in 41 years
scorched eastern states.
Forecasters had little encour
agement for New York and New
England farmers who have suf
fered a $50,000,000 loss In burn
ed up crops. The prediction was
for only a few thundershowers.
Scorching heat, with readings
in the 60s, was forecast for a
five-state New England area.
There have been 43 deathi from
heat or drowning in New Eng
land since the drought began,
and the weather bureau warned
of high humidity, but little rain.
In 27 days, the Boston region
has had only .19 inch of rain.
The rest of the country, for
the most part, had typical sum
m e r weather. No extensive
showers were forecast anywhere
although some were expected in
the Central Lakes region and in
the upper Mississippi valley.
There was no snow in all the
land. About the coldest spot in
the nation was Pembina, N.D.,
with 51 degrees.
More sticky, humid weather
tortured New York City's mil
lions. Few Cherries Cracked
By Recent Rain
Cherry cracking showing up
in cherry deliveries is so infi
nitemisal from Sunday night's
rain as to hardly be worth men
tioning, reports Robert Shinn,
manager of Willamette Cherry
Growers, Inc., and what cracks
there are will be far offset by
improved and bigger cherries in
his estimation.
He says deliveries have been
very good since Sunday and the
cherries are looking fine. A few
growers have reported some
cracked cherries but the per
centage Is low and no more
damage is looked for barring
further rain.
Shinn says this will be the
peak week in deliveries the way
it looks now and while they
have been heavy nevertheless
a large number of additional
pickers are needed badly and
this week if large quantities of
the crop art to be saved.