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Salem, Oregon, Friday, June 24, 1949
Rail Meeting Was Not Discouraging
Southern Pacific officials did meet with city planners
Tuesday night to discuss the railroad track barriers around
Salem's central area. The "Friendly Railroad" did offer
only little encouragement toward helping to lift the track
barrier.
But the point not to be dismissed with a discouraging
shrug was that two high rail officials did come to discuss
the matter with the local parties. The railroad admitted,
in effect, that the problem of tracks blocking free traffic
flow could exist and the company would listen to the city's
ideas on what to do about it, and promised preliminary co
operation on solution.
Since both parties are in agreement on the presence of
the problem, there remains hope that some kind of a work
able solution can be reached.
The railroad admitted it had no money to spend on any
line relocation, for every city it serves is making similar
demands. The city, for that matter, hasn't any money to
make a real impression on the problem, either. But that
doesn't mean that a solution can't be figured between the
railroad and the city. Nor does it mean that, with a mutu
ally agreed upon plan, moneys cannot be put aside for the
specific plan in mind to "remove" the train barriers on the
downtown streets.
Tuesday night's meeting was the first one that has
taken up the particular problem with both sides repre
sented. To have expected the Southern Pacific company
to have agreed to- a several million dollar shifting of the
railroad tracks was to have expected the impossible. The
company no more could have agreed to that at the time
than could the city, which would have to get authoriza
tion for a bond issue from the people.
After all, no big plan, such as must be envisioned for
this particular problem, can be worked out in one meeting.
Salem knows that the Southern Pacific will consider, to
cautious extent, any reasonable solution. The railroad
made it clear it would listen to a solution where the cost
could be justified economically. In other words, the South
ern Pacific wanted to avoid spending any money which
couldn't be defended as a sound investment for the com
pany. A legitimate return would have to be expected for
stockholders.
That attitude on the part of the company was to have
been expected. A sales program will be needed to sell the
Southern Pacific on the advisability of whatever program
is agreed to. In any event, the way is clear now for both
the company and the city to throw suggestions into the
discussion. The suggestions, for the greater part, will
have come from the city. From continued meetings, how
ever, some solution should be able to be found that could
be made to be satisfactory to both.
Instead of being discouraging, the first meeting was
actually heartening. The railroad agreed to have its en
gineers check on proposals the city will advance to lift the
rail barrier. Salem can realize it is up to the city to pre
sent a feasible program to break out of the encircling girdle
of steel.
Disgusting Politics Cloud Real Issue
So much confusion is being caused by the current hear
ings in Washington on the proposed Columbia Valley Ad
ministration that the point of the dispute is being lost.
Walter Pearson tried to tell the hearing that Doug Mc
Kay, the governor of the state, wasn't speaking for the
state when McKay opposed a CVA for the region. But
Pearson, state treasurer, informed the committee that he
(for some unexplained reason) was speaking for the peo
ple in favoring a CVA.
It made no difference that previously one of the authors
of the bill to create the valley administration had opposed
holding elections in the Pacific Northwest to determine
how the same people Pearson was talking about felt on
the matter.
Nor did it seem to matter that the nation's governors
meeting in Colorado rejected the principle of a CVA. Of
course, the governors were elected by the people of the
respective states, the same people Pearson claimed were
ignored by such opposition to a valley authority.
In this political smear campaign that has arisen in the
Washington hearings on a CVA, there is only one point
that can be brought up : Would a CVA develop a region
better than existing government agencies ?
Ignored by CVA backers is the real fear of a regional
government that was answerable only to Washington.
Also ignored is the fact that representatives of the people
in congress can get money for their own areas better than
any super government. Also ignored is the probability of
a series of regional agencies, such as the CVA, gradually
taking over the various parts of the country itself. Also
ignored is the fact that these CVAs can exist only by build
ing huge bureaucratic regimes that become uncontrolled.
Regretably, the politics of the controversy have tried
to make the question of a CVA merely a choice between
public power and private power. Those who, in good faith,
oppose a CVA are criticized ridiculously as being in the
grip of the power trust. That is just as ridiculous as say
ing that those who favor the CVA are lackeys of Mort
Tomkins and his grange, who are ardent advocates of the
regional agency.
The choice of a CVA still is what it was months ago:
Can the Pacific Northwest handle the direction of its own
development, with the help of existing federal depart
ments? Or must the region admit the task is beyond the
intelligence of its leaders and people, so, therefore, the
"brains" of Washington must handle the helpjess ones in
the Pacific Northwest?
The Capital . urnal is still of the opinion, despite the dis
gusting politics uf the Washington hearing, that the people
of the region have the brains and desire to develop the
region themselves. Existing federal agencies will be called
on a they are needed to help.
Anything Con Happen in LA.
Los Angeles (AWThey say anything can happen here . . .
Ten-year-old Harvey Bronsteln sobbingly told police a man
tepped p to him aa he waa playing, snatched off hit (lames,
Jtepped back a pace and asked "How many fingers am I
koldlng up?"
"Two," answered Harvey, correctly.
"You don't need glasses," the man retorted, ground Har
y glasses under hiv heel and stalked away.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Sen. Morse Out to Stop
Tyding's Steamroller Tactics
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Oregon's wrathy Republican Wayne Morse has
served notice that he will block every bill Chairman Millard Tyd
ings of Maryland tries to steamroller through the senate armed
services committee.
Morse issued his warning privately after rowing with Tydings
publicly over
whether the na-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
vy should re
port to congress
its disposal of
surplus proper
ty. This is now
required by
1 a w, but Ty
dings wants to
repeal the law
and let the navy
dispose of prop
erty without any public report.
LYtJ
Ore Pckrsao
ning to descend on Secretary of
Defense Johnson to demand the
ousting of Paul Griffith, former
commander of the American Le
gion, from the defense depart
ment. Those who know Grif
fith and his chair-warming ac
tivities, agree wth the congress
men. Rootin' - Tootin' Congressman
John Rankin of Mississippi has
really dug into the history books
to sound the alarm about spies.
Warning the congress about
SIPS FOR SUPPER
If You Don't Know
BY DON UPJOHN
Quite a to-do is being made over the alleged fact that some
meat company in Portland has been dishing out horsemeat as members without a fair vote,
hamburger meat and in various restaurants customers who thought
they were get-
Morse obiected on the eround communism, Rankin recalled
that congress should not give up that Benjamin Franklin's secre
its check on the military. But tary, a subversive named Ban
in committee Tydings overruled croft, had slipped government
him. secrets to the British during the
However, the Oregon senator Revolutionary War.
is going to have the last laugh. Jack McCloy, now U.S. gov
For he can block most of Ty- ernor of Germany, was picked
dings' bills on the senate floor, and virtually appointed by Sec
and he has served notice that retary of State Acheson. They
hfi will do so whenever the will work well together.
chairman tries to jam legislation Gen. Harry Vaughn, the pres-
MODCL RAILROAD HOBBYISTS NUMBER 100,000-
WITH A TOTAL INVESIHtNl ur
110,000,000.
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ting hamburg
ers got horse
burgers instead
We have not
heard that any
of the customers
didn't like the
horseburgers or
suffered any ill
effects from eat
ing same. Some
of t h e earliest
of the visitors
he never did find out he was
chawing on good, clean white
rabbit meat all the time.
In fact we never even heard
of one of the worms In an Ore
gon cherry hurting anybody, as
long as the recipient of same
didn't know it was in the cherry.
English Humor
London, June 24 VP) What
kind of a joke gives a preacher
oon Dphn a reai belly laugh? This one
to Oregon such as Messrs Lewis m3d n' '(ncl.udln thfe
and Clark and later Mr. Wil- Archbishop of Canterbury guf-
son T. Hunt and his personally faw toJ. three full minutes today
conducted tour of this great but af'cr to d the a"nua
then virgin country, made no C1hurch of E"f and assembly of
bones about horse meat if they clergymen and laymen: A wom-
could find any. In fact, for a buBht a d,n bw fr
,. ' ,, ,u' , her dog. The clerk asked if she
time, as we remember the story,
there were some of these men
who grabbed It with great rel-
wanted the word "dog" painted
on it. "No thanks," said the
h,mt f if nrf who,, that wolc "u mc
down the throats of committee ident's military aide, is now
sniping at Defense Secretary
Johnson despite the fact that
BOTH SIDES ON HOUSING he, Vaughn, urged Johnson's ap-
G.O.P. Representative Jesse pointment.
Wolcott of Michigan, who leads Chiang Kai - Shek's brothers
the house fight against the pub- in-law, T.V. Soong and H. H.
lie housing bill, would like to Kung, reputed to head the rich
forget all about it, but he once est families in the world, are
strongly espoused what he now looking for a good public rela
opposes. tions man. They want him to
Back in August 1937, Con- sell the American people, on
gressman Wolcott was an out- shipping silver to pay Chinese
spoken champion of the Wag- troops. .
ner-Steagall housing act, which .IM AMpD,
also provided for slum clear- i;11! AMERICA
ance and low-cost public hous- FACES SLUMP
ing the same program which The continued downward
the Michigan republican now trend of prices on the U.S. raw
calls "socialistic " materials and commodites mar-
During the 1937 debate Wol- kets is making things tough for
cott declared: "I believe that the good-neighbor policy
the need for decent, respectable throughout Latin America,
and sanitary housing for the The recent 7-cent drop in the
underprivileged has been prov- price of copper alone struck a
ed beyond the preadventure of 10 ",e "a""n?f eY
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
OPEN FORUM
Mutual Interests of Farm, Labor
To the Eidtor: Your June 18 editorial entitled "Grange Leaders l
Inaugurate a Purge" contained the following:
"One of (State Grange Master)
Tompkin's fixed illusions is that . i..-. in , lorf i:.
the interest of industrial workers Many issues In the last legis
and farmers are the same whereas lature (including the defense of
their interests conflict, and he seeks the initiative and referendum
a common front politically," rf annrnval of the tax nrneram
which statement, confined to and approval of tne tax program
some economic conflict, is true, introduced by Rep Thomas and
but which overlooks, the wide myself ) had joint farm-labor ap
area of agreement within which Proval- am not saying that one
the two groups work shoulder n cal1 Jf necessarily an index
to shoulder, often effecting their f a man's fitness or unfitness
accomplishments through the rePfren' the peple; but 1
process of the Initiative f b,mlt at circumstances are
In 1947 I headed the State dal'y making more manifest the
Anti-Sales Tax committee, spon- "eu 1UI. a tu
nrH w tat nrniUtinn and agriculture, and that this
j ...v. n
of the AF of L, CIO, Grange and
Farmers Union all working to
gether successfully and in close
harmony.
unity in action is taking place.
CARL H. FRANCIS,
State' Representative,
Yamhill County.
can't
read."
of a hunk of it and when that
was gone proceeded to eat dog
meat or anything else they could Teacher Loyalty
lay their teeth to and made no Vinita Howard, 563 Court
complaints about same. They street, recently graduated from
didn't have any very high class the University of Oregon and at
horses or dogs either in those her graduation she had a real
days as far as their eatibility admirer. Vinita went to grade
was concerned. But apparently school back in Elsie, Neb., and
these days it isn't the fact that was a top flight student. She
it's horse meat that causes an- did so well in fact that her
noyance, it's knowing It's horse teacher, Mrs. Lucretia Hopper,
meat that causes folks to stick asked if she could be present
up their noses. We once knew when Vinita graduated from
a chap who said he'd rather die college. And Mrs. Hopper kept
than to eat a rabbit. Yet one her word, coming way out to
evening he thought he had a Oregon to see her protege grad-
chlcken dinner he pronounced uate. A never-to-be-forgotten
the best he had ever eaten, and tribute.
Free Oil Unappreciated
Long Beach, Calif., (P) Signal Hill's first gas blow in
recent years may be good news to oil men, but owners of
about 20 new automobiles say it's a sticky mess.
A General Petroleum well 1U a gut pocket at 10,000 feet
yesterday and oil spewed over the countryside for 10 min
utes. Police said several cars' wcr sp!.ttercd.
It was the first sign of gas deposits in the Desoto sand
level, and oil men took it as an Indication there might be
heavy-flowing oil beneath.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
World a Graveyard to Chas. Knight
By HAL BOYLE
New York () Tired of eating the same old things? Want
a new flavor thrill?
Then why not try some tasty marrow from a woolly mammoth
aged for 10,000
saurs has convinced him mod
ern man doesn't have too much
to brag about,
"Ancestral man has existed
for perhaps a million years,"
said Knight, "but he didn't as
sume his present manlike shape
until the C'ro-magnon man of
Europe, some 30,000 years ago.
"And the Cro-magnon was
just a good man as we are, men
tally and physically. The Cro
magnons averaged 5 feet 9 in
ches tall, but some were 6 feet
onomy of Chile, Peru and Mexi
co. On June 15, the Anaconda
Copper Co.'s two subsidiaries in
Chile announced an immediate
doubt."
In fact, Wolcott was so con
cerned about the need for ade-
nimfji nnhlin tinucintf anH cliim
ninmnra in 1037 that ho nriud one-third cut in operations.
colleagues who were opposed .. The cacao (cocoa bean) situa
to the bill to go home and "read "on also is creating alarm, and
the Bible" before casting their ven near-panic. Despite con-
iiuueu strung aemana lor mis
product in the U.S., its whole
sale market price has slumped
16 per cent in the past month.
In Geneva, Jos E. Sandoval,
HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE
Present Salem General Hospital
Building Set for .Future Use
votes.
.
LIFTING LITLE CURTAIN
Debated backstage during the
closing days of the Paris con-
years in na
ure's northern
icebox? You'll
never forget it.
Charles R.
Knight has
reme m b e r e d
the sensation
fnr 25 vpnrs
He is an artist j
famous for his
ploneeri n g
paintings of pre
historic life.
"About a quarter of a century 3 or' 4 inches.
ago the American museum of "You could bring a Cro-mag-Natural
Histor.y got some bones non to New York City today
and flesh from a woolly mam- and after you had shown him
moth, trapped in the Alaskan a few wonders, he'd be able to
Ice perhaps 10,000 years be- get along all right."
fore," he recalled. He'd be able to appreciate
"We were curious as to what television as well as the next
it would taste like, so we tried cliff dweller,
some of the marrow. It tasted Knight is convinced that man
exactly like rancid grease." kind's biggest defeat is his fail
Nobody asked for a second ure to develop spiritually,
helping. Knight feels he was "With all our advantages, we
luckier than some Russian sci- haven't advanced spiritually, as
entists who dined on the flesh spiritually we are better than
of another woolly mammoth we can and should and must,"
caught long ago In the Siberian he said. I don't think that
deep freeze. spiritually we are better than
"They got awful sick," he Cro-magnon. ,
"'d- "Confucius, Christ, Moham-
mcri these and other messiahs
All the world's a graveyard have told us a thousand times
to this 74-year-old artist, who what to do. We know what to
perhaps as much as any one do but we don't do it.
man has helped the past come "I don't know what to make
come alive. of modern man. He throws
Since 1894 he has specialized away his possibilities. He is a
in painting prehistoric men and ' deliberate fool the worst kind
animals, and he was the first to of a fool."
do so scientifically based on
reconstructed fossils. But Knight thinks there Is
His large scale murals hang little use for man to trust that
In a dozen well-known natural nature will bail him out of the
history museums across the trouble he is getting himself in
country, and his work was col- to.
lecled by such nature lovers as "He will destroy himself un
the late J. P. Morgan, Governor less he returns to more spiritu
Pinchot of Pennsylvania, and al ways. He's a goner.
Historian Charles A. Beard. His "Nature never helped any ani
fifth book, "Prehistoric Man," mal rut of a hole. She won't
soon will be published. help man out either. And he has
His 55-year study of the earth problems just like any other
u it was in the days of the dino- animal."
ference was a point which may ?h'ef Cuban delegate to the 32nd
revolutionize U.S. policy toward international labor conference,
iron curtain countries. It was: askfd fr an immediate investi
Should the U.S.A. create a Bation of conditions in the world
"Little Marshall Plan" for the sugar industry. Cuba, he said,
satellite countries? ' ls facing black disaster as a re
Two schools of thought exist of uniuft. artifically cre
among American diplomats. ?ted competition, designed to
Both agree that Europe badly v "un
German Ruhr must have mar
kets in Bulgaria, Hungary, Rou
mania and other satellite coun
tries. However, one diplomatic
school opposes economic aid to
any iron curtain country. Such
aid, they argued, is only an in
direct way of helping Russia.
The other school argues that
aid to Czechoslovakia, Poland,
Hungary, etc., would win over
the people of these countries
already resentful of Soviet
rule. This group is prepared to
take the calculated risk of help
ing Russia in order to persuade
the satellites to break away
from Russia,
However, it was economic
unrest inside Yugoslavia that
helped induce Tito to pull up
his iron curtain. Therefore the
No.l school argues that our best
policy is to let the satellites
stew in their own economic
juice until they really realize
how tough life behind the iron
curtain really is.
NOTE Despite Foreign Min
ister Vishinsky's smiles at Paris,
Russia still has 172 fully trained
divisions of the Red army, plus
180 reserve divisions which can
be mobilized in sixty days.
PERLE'S PARTIES
Mrs. Perle Mesta, ex-republican
oil heiress from Oklahoma
whose loyalty to Harry Truman
has made her U.S. minister to
Luxembourg, threw a party for
Defense Secretary Louie John
son the other day. But the guest
list looked as if Mrs. Mesta was
specializing on Pan American
Airways.
It included Sam Pryor, G.O.P.
national committeeman for Con
necticut and vice president of
Pan American; Ben Sonnenberg,
astute public relations counsel
for Pan Am, and Senator Brew
ster of Maine, considered Pan
Am's best senatorial friend.
Louie Johnson, himself, of
course, used to be counsel for
Pan American, which has re
ceived more favors from Uncle
Sam than any other airline in
history.
After the party was over one
guest said it reminded him of
the late Louis Wiley's temark
after being kissed and decorated
by Marshal Foch. "It wasn't the
most thrilling kiss I ever had,"
said the late business manager
of the New York Times, "but I
guess it was the most important."
NOTE Mrs. Mesta is now
reading books on the steel in
dustry. For Luxembourg, her
new post, is the center of the
European steel cartel.
QUESTION: If you construct
of 200 beds what will become
hospital building?
ANSWER: The present build
ing is of A grade construction
material, fire - proofed, and
should stand for centuries. It
is not large enough nor adapted
to proper segregation of patients
or for time-saving service so
necessary in a general hospital
serving acutely ill patients.
The building ls quite usable
for special types of patients and
can be arranged for that purpose.
a new building with capacity
of the present Salem General
The Oregon state board ol
he-ilth is urging this service and
says the Salem area needs 303
beds for special patients thai
should not be taken to genera
hospitals.
The fact that this buildini
would be available for special
patients should add favorably t
Salem's request for federal aid
in the construction of the new
general hospital building.
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