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Capital A Journal
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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, June 22, 1949
A Shot in the Arm Needed
How's Salem's hospital development program coming
along?
From all indications, the answer could be this: The aver
age size of the advance gifts has been good so far, but
only a small percentage of the advance gifts has been
made.
Salem has a great interest and stake in the success of
the current hospital development program. The goal of
$1,100,000 will give the city what it needs to offer hos
pital care to the growing community.
Experience has shown that fun-raising drives like this
are divided into two parts : The advance gifts phase and
the public campaign. The advance gifts drive started three
months ago but has resulted so far in only about 20 per
cent of the expected results. One hundred pledges have
been written, with each averaging $1500. E. T. Franklin,
director of the hospital campaign, describes the number
of these donors short at this time in the drive, but the
average contribution as good.
Only three weeks remain of the advance gifts drive.
Then the public campaign begins. That campaign which
will reach into every section of the city will start July 12
and close August 12.
As one of the articles run on this page has brought out,
the amount sought from each person in Salem is lower
on the average than in other cities of the Pacific North
west in which drives have been conducted. Salem's hoped
for average contribution in the over-all campaign will
be lower than in Newport, Bend, Prineville or Nyssa
among communities in Oregon.
That "lower" figure does not betray the real need for
more adequate hospital facilities in the city. Nor does it
excuse a delay in the making of contributions.
Looking over the campaign as it stands now, Salem can
gay that the advance gifts are good in size but slow in
coming in and low in number this far along. But the goal
remains the same.
If a doctor were diagnosing the situation, he might say
the patient is coming along all right, but a shot in the
arm wouldn't hurt. The shot in the arm could be the
prompt signing of advance gift pledges.
Salem's stake in the drive is so great as to make the
guccess of it essential for the health of the community
Itself.
The Federal Housing Bill
The administration's federal housing bill is one of
President Truman's must measures for which the Euro
pean aid bill and the Atlantic Pact have been sidetracked.
As approved by the house banking committee the bill
calls for construction of 1,050,000 units in seven years,
with a maximum cost to the federal government of $400,
000,000 a year over a 40-year period. The federal govern
ment's share under the revised bill would be about $308,
000,000 annually.
The bill would also provide for a $1,500,000,000 slum
clearance program and a $300,000,000 program for the
improvement of rural housing.
The housing bill has been bitterly fought and the presi
dent has repeatedly denounced the opponents as the "real
estate lobby." The main arguments against the measure
are that there will be less housing and housing will cost
more, because private home owners won't build in com
petition with the government, and that the purchase cost
will be prohibitive to incomes of those who really need
housing. '
As the bill comes to the house floor it provides for the
construction of 810,000 public health units over a six-year
period not enough to relieve the shortage incurred by
years of non-building during the depression and war peri
ods. Besides, housing should be left to private enterprise
and should not be a federal project.
Grange Purge Resented
The Oregon Farm Bureau federation, a rival farm or
ganization of the Oregon State Grange, takes issue with
the latter for its scheduled campaign to purge 22 state
legislators for voting to amend the state initiative and
referendum laws, instigated by Grangemaster Morton
Thompkins at the recent Marsh field convention.
The proposed change was a revision requiring the signa
tures of 8 percent of the legal voters of each county of
the state to place an initiative bill on the ballot. The
present law requires the signatures of 8 percent of the
legal voters of the state regardless of residence, which
can easily be got, and usually is, by paid solicitors in Port
land, and so does not represent the state's electorate.
Marshall Swearingen, Pendleton, executive secretary of
the Oregon Farm Bureau federation, blasts the grange
action as "blackballing" and an attempt "to bulldoze the
ehosen representatives of the people."
The farm bureau, Swearingen said, actively supported
the bill in question house joint resolution 7 because it
was a part of the bureau's program to give voters more
adequate representation on initiative matters.
As often remarked in these columns the American farm
er is a natural rugged individualist and votes his own
convictions and resents dictation, and will remain so un
less he is persuaded by federal subsidies and paternalism
to surrender his initiative and so pave the way for regi
mentation that ushers in a return to serfdom.
Burned Up Over Wife's Career
Blackpool. Eng. i William Brlndle wants his wife to quit
conducting her streetcar and come on home to do the cooking.
Saturday he was put on pronation because he stopped traffic
along the aeafrnnt by telling his troubles to a crowd he as
sembled on his wife's tramline.
unday he burned up the skirt to her conductor's uniform
and hid the Jacket. The wife, Violet, went to work In a green
mock.
Brlndle conked his own dinner and burned the peas.
"I'll get Violet back home If It the last thing 1 do," Brlndle
f rowled.
"The trams are my career," enapped Violet "I shall go on,
whatever happen."
by BECK
Recollections
NO MODERN LUXURY LINER CAN
EQUAL THE THRILL YOU GOT FROM lf., f
THAT OLD RAFT WHEN MX! SET '?P'J$gf",
AROUND THE WORLD.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
J. Edgar Hoover 'Feud'
With Clark Has No Basis
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The 48-hour mystery over J. Edgar Hoover's
resigning as head of the FBI got stirred up from two separata
(ources.
One was President Truman, who got highly indignant at the
smearing of a lot of innocent bystanders when the FBI reports
the Judith
FBI reports because, if he did,
every espionage agent in the
United States would figure he
had immunity. He would know
the FBI could not produce ita
reports in court to prove the
government's case.
gy GUILD
Wizard of Odds
in
C o p 1 o n case
were published.
Truman felt
that unchecked ,
rumors should I
not have been
allowed to get ,
Into the FBI I
files, and for a I
while he was all I
for firing the
e f f 1 cient FBI
4.1 .u t th, ster Roger Touhy had demanded
The other source was J. Edgar ..... , i
Hoover's public relations man.
VACATIONERS SPEND
LESS TIME IN RESORT
CITIES NOW THAN
odds Against a husband and wife
MEETIN6 DEATH WTHfl
Maf ClUt AVIACUT
uTS? ARE 950.000
to I. (m
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Ortv PeartoD
Hoover than asked if the jus
tice department couldn't take
"a contempt" as in the Touhy
case in Chicago. There, Gang-
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Lou Nichols, a smart and likable
Greek-American, formerly Nic-
holopolous, who.
protect his boss, sometimes out
smarts himself.
Salemire Abroad
that certain FBI reports be pro
duced in court, and the jus
tice department had refused,
in his zeal to "I" A.?;. T
attorney in contempt..
Clark replied that the Touhy
case was different from the
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BY DON UPJOHN
Today's mail brought us an anonymous letter signed "Your
Explorer Friend," and sent from Salem, Mass., the little city on
the east coast which was asked to change its name some years
ago by a Salem
Oregonian and
got huffy about
it. Our explor
er friend, who
we suspect is
non other than
Gardner Knapp
on a big tour of
the country
writes: "While
in Salem, Mass..
I thought I
would do a lit-
Dean Walker Please Note
(Bend Bulletin)
Another unneeded feature at
the water carnival was the inno
vation permitting vendors of
soft drinks, peanuts and popcorn
to cry their wares through the
crowd. In other years such sales
had been confined to booths lo
cated at a little distance from
the seats bordering the mirror
pond. But in 1948 the sellers,
extremely vocal, vied continu-
tle research ir.to two of your ously with the pageant narrator.
favorite subjects. One, store frequently ruined utterly the
teeth: The store teeth here are musical background upon which
mostly porcelain, buck teeth pre- the presentation was being made,
dominating, and most folks carry In a moment of solemn beauty
an extra set as a bit of protec- there can be nothing more dis
tion against pickpockets. I concerting, we think, than a sud
could find no record of any den, raucus call of "Peanuts!"
organized groups of store teeth There can be few things more
wearers. Evidently the influ- offensive to the eye than the
ence of your favorite paper has litter which peanut munchers
not reached this far. Your other and "pop" guzzlers leave in a
favorite subject, the ladies: once lovely park.
There seems to be lots of 'em ,
in Salem, Mass., too. In obr Kea ,or Rte ,
serving from a distance they (50 Years Ago in Pendleton
seemed most attractive. Skirts
are shorter, calves are nicely
There will be no fight made
curved, and waists are back. m lne. SIOt mro n asKS; "
You can tell your advertisers to "venreen men were inaici
start selling long skirts short, ed by the grand jury have plead
By fall they'll be back where .d f"'" nd rtJude Lowell
. , , , fined each $20. One of the gen
they belong. Your Explorer tlemen said he regretted very
Friend. P.S. The only witches much the necessity of having
left in Salem are cute ones. to take out the slot machines.
for the reason it had netted him
Interesting sidelights on Sa- $1800 in the last year,
lem, Mass., in foregoing letter, Death which struck down
also on human nature. A guy George Manolis so unexpectedly
going 3000 miles to look at a took one of the county's widely
caK beloved figures. He was so ac-
, tive, so full of vigor, so always
mj nv,sr,n i ;,, . mil. on the alert for civic advance
Had a chance to give a little ment lhe M that he could
tudy today to a photo of Gov- !0 suddenly be taken in the
ernor Douglas McKay, and if he midst of his activities accentuat-
wears a toupe, as suggested in ed the shock. Our particular
the inquiry to B. Mike's column condolences go to young George
i ti, ,-,,.,:.. Hi. i whose picture appeared in last
in the Oregonian, it is an in- ii.,- ,- , ,,,,.
night s issue of this paper in
growing one and has taken good training as a guardsman at Fort
hold of Doug's scalp. Lewis.
OPEN FORUM
Parking Under New Courthouse
To the Editor: A great deal has been written regarding the
parking problem in Salem and the latest idea to provide parking
under the new Court House seems to be viewed with much
favor.
Since the Court House will re- locations desired, such as adja
quire a large basement area for cent to the City Hall, State Of
the heating plant, mechanical fice Buildings and main shop
features and general storage as ping district,
well as columns and walls, the Close-in parking lots, multi
parking area under the immcdi- pie-storied platform parking or
ate structure would be limited, underground parking all will be
However ramps could be provi- costly, but if parking facilities
ded on four sides of the build- are not provided for our exist
ing and parking areas placed ing shops and offices, then the
under the remainder of the business will move to outlying
block and under the city streets, districts where parking is avail
Since most of our city streets able.
are a hundred feet wide, park- CARL SCHNEIDER
ing areas could be provided at 1665 S. Winter St., Salem.
NEED FOR HOSPITAL CARE HERE
What Basis for Figure
Of 200 Hospital Beds?
(Editor's Note: In a few weeks the Salem hospital develop
ment program will he brought before the people of the Salem
area. So that questions being raised may be known by all,
along with the answers, the Capital Journal Is co-operating
by printing them dally. Questions may he directed to the hos
pital program headquarters, 3 .IS N. High St., or may be
phoned to 1-3851.)
Tt urae MinVin1s whn set in mO'
tion the rumor that Hoover was Coplon case in that Touhy was
about to resign as a backfire making an appeal and the bur
against Truman's intimation de" of proof was on him. There
that it might be a good thing to j 'j the justice department
have Hoover resign. rlsked .iftt!tm8 contempt-
Nichols was busy as a bird a.J 100 'lne. In the Coplon
dog dropping hints to newsmen on the other hand, Clark
about friction between Hoover continued, the justice depart
and his chief, Attorney General nt was the prosecutor, and if
Tom Clark, and one editorial in ' wa held in contempt the
a local Washington newspaper 3udg,ew?.uld not merely ?sses
followed Nichols' conversation 100 flne. n would dismiss
verbatim. the case'
Nichols is the same alert
busybody who shuttled back Hoover said he guessed the
and forth between the FBI and attorney general was right. He
Capitol Hill last summer when added that publication of the
it was a good bet the republicans FBI Papers in court was now
were going to win in November. wat over the dam, but he
He seemed almost as much at wou.ld b,eu dead opposed to pro
home in the office of Congress- duclne tne toP dcu
man Parnell Thomas, chairman ment-
of the un-American activities clark sa'd he heartily agreed,
committee, as the congressman and that if the judge ruled this
himself. (Thomas is now under report nad to be Published, then
indictment in a kickback scan- he would aPPeal to a higher
dalj court and if overruled there,
Nichols also was chummy en he wou.ld mov 'to di,snYss
with GOP Senator Ferguson of hpeBJaS! mM then Judge
... . , v,it, 4h Reeves has ruled that this top-
Michigan, a bitter foe of the document was not to be
justice department. In fact, Lou produced )
was credited with slipping Fer-
guson the Elizabeth Bentley spy f conversation was corn
data, and was so active that Ple,ely cord,al throughout, as
some capitol observers were un- h4avevbe?", " atln betW6en
j , t ..... Hoover and Clark ever since
kind enough to say Lou was cark became Uo al
PlBh'SCBrds to become c h.ef While Hoover has metimes
of the FBI once the republicans differed with other attor
took officethough this observ- generali he and clark have been
er has never detected anything close friendg ever since Ciark
but strict devotion to his FBI was assistant attorney general in
chief. charge of the criminal division.
Contrary to reports of trouble Here two important factg
between Hoover and Attorney io keep mind in the FBI. c
General Clark, Hoover never lon case furore.
sent a letter threatening resig- j Xhe FBI ' builds its files
nation, and here is what actu- somewhat like a newspaper
ally happened between the two man builds his files. A piece of
men: information comes in from one
Clark telephoned Hoover aft- source which means nothing,
er Dr. Edward U. Condon of the Then something comes in from
bureau of standards had asked another source, and perhaps
for an FBI apology. Jokingly, from a third source, which tak
Clark called Hoover "Dr. Con- en separately mean nothing,
don." Hoover laughed. But put together, they begin to
Clark then asked how many tell a story. Therefore, the FBI
confidential agents he had lost is duty bound to keep uncheck
as a result of making public the ed rumors in its files.
FBI reports in the Coplon case. 2- However, these unchecked
Hoover said he had lost about rumors should not be made pub
12, and that the one that was "c. any more than a newspaper
most important was inside the man can afford to publish ru
Russian embassy. mors without checking for ac-
Th .iinrav m h curacy. Unfortunately, however,
had been talking to Acting Sec- P1"" unchecked FBI reports
retary of State Webb, who said
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
What Big Four Ministers y
Agreed to -or Didn't
By DeWITT MocKcrtZIE
(UP) Foreign Affair Anamtl
The month-old big four foreign ministers' council meeting in
Paris finally has ground to a weary close, having recorded some
achievement, although it has done little to make the halls of ;
the pink palace echo with sat- "
isfaction. east. There is nq guarantee that
Small wonder that an Ameri- this tug of war will cease.
can spokesman-
wasn't optimis
tic in evaluating
the results.
One of the
confere n c e ' s
chief accomp
lishments, as I
see it, has been
to e m p h a size
again the con
f 1 i c t between
the two blocs '
western democ-
Dwm Maekeiul
The council announced agree
ment in principle on an Aus
trian independence treaty.
This has been hanging fire
largely because of two issues
Moscow's reparations demands
from the little country, and Yu
goslavia's claim of territory
from the Austrian province of
Caranthia. Russia has been sup
porting this claim.
The council agreed that Aus
tria's frontiers will remain
rf,cy ,a.nd totalitarian bolshevism. wnat they were on January lf
It s difficult to find common
ground on vital issues.
1938, which means that Yugo
slavia's claim has been thrown
nut Ruccio ie avnantati in uriiV,.
The principal object of the draw ner support to that cUim
conference to establish econo- Yugoslavia won't get repara-
mic and political unity for Ger- tions but may ..seize retain or
mar?uy?aS.n ig , liquidate Austrian property" in
The best that could be done Yugoslav territory. Austria will
by the four statesmen Vishin- pay Russia $150,ooo,000 in rep
sky of Russia, Bevin of Britain, aration3
Schuman of France and Ache- Tnat hat has been d to
ion of America was to agree in principie. it remains to be
on a modus Vivendi" under seen whether it will be what ul-
which dismembered Germany timately is signed, sealed and
will continue to be adminis- delivered. Agreement, in prin-
lerea Dy ine opposing Diocs. oiple have had uncomfortable
A?- A.mT,?-atV?esman said habit of blowing up, and so we
of this that "it didn't solve any- shal, wait and see what h
thing. It merely stated guiding .. h 4k !.,
rtrinfinlaae ' . '
as an accomplished fact.
have been made the basis for
he was sure the Russians knew government servants in
Under this agreement the Big
Four would reopen and encour
age trade between east and west If this agreement does work
Germany. The Russians promise out as scheduled, it will be
not to impose blockade condi- agreeable to the western pow
tions on Berlin again. ers.
A face value, that looks good, One reason is that the Rus-
but its real value depends on sians will have to withdraw
whether it can be made to work, their troops from Austria when
The establishment of political the treaty is signed,
and economic unity of Germany Another is that if the Soviet
is essential to the rehabilitation does drop its support of Yugo-
and peace of Europe. However, slav claims this may drive Mar-
this very importance of the shal Tito who is feuding with
reich has made it the object of Moscow into the western
a tug-of-war between west and sphere of influence.
they were being watched.
loyalty tests in which the ac-
,. . . . . tuseu is nui even uemuiieu 10
Clark went on to say that he fano fho n,untH
simply could not drop the Cop
lon case rather than produce the
(Copyright lilt)
Tidiness Can Cause Trouble
Oklahoma City OP) Mrs. Sylvia Edmondson doesn't like
those nasty chalk marks policemen put on her nice clean
tires.
So she rubbed one off with her hankie.
It landed her in police court when traffic officer C. O.
Williams caught her at her clean-up chores.
"She was very sarcastic when I asked if she knew she
was violating the parking ordinance," said officer Willanu.
"So I charged her with disorderly conduct, too."
Then Mrs. Edmondson, a 42-year-old switchboard opera
tor, explained how she likes to keep her automobile sweet
and clean.
"This is not an easy question," said police Judge James
Demopolis.
He fined her $3 for obstructing an officer and suspended
it.
QUESTION: What is the justification for saying that the Salem
community needs 200 more general hospital beds and equipment?
ANSWER: The Oregon State Board of Health made a survey
of Oregon In 1P47, and. on that
basis of accepted standards of tion Prevailed in this eommu
need, said Salem should have niy.
1R4 additional general hospital It is reasonable to assume that
beds. the people in Salem communl-
Many people who should have ty are at least an average of good
had hospital care could not get American communities. It is on
suitable rooms and have fought this amnimptinn and upon the
out their illness at home or, be- fact that one person In eight
cause to acute, they took beds has a hospital experience every
In the halls when necessary. twelve months if adequate hos-
There is no way of knowing pital beds are available that the
Just who all the people are who Federal and State authorities
needed hospitalization but who say that Salem needs 184 addl
could not get it as they needed tlonal general hoapital beds,
it, but there Is I way of forming If Salem hospitals had still
a dependable opinion of how fewer beds, still more people
many should have had hospllali- would have to fight their ill
lation and who would have had nesses out at home regardless of
hospital cart if proper condi- consequence.
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HISTORIC MEDICAL HIGHLIGHTS No. 39 .
-CARRIER OF DEATH.
YELLOW FEVER . . . even the name of this
disease inspired dread before 1900. But this
was an eventful year in history, for Dr. Walter
Reed and hit associates proved beyond a
doubt that Yellow Fever was contracted and
spread through the bite of a certain type of
mosquito. When mosquito abatement and
protection measures were adopted as a result
of these investigations, Yellow Fever was com
pletely eliminated. The final victory was won
In 1931, after long years of work to isolate
the virus and to develop on immunising
vaccina.
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