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4i Salem, Oregon Thursday, July 7, 1949
The Southern Pacific Franchise
! An ancient resolution, adopted by the Salem city council
81 years ago, is the Southern jracuic company s auinomy
ior its main line operations on 12th street.
I The status of the railroad company's franchise on 12th
street has been questioned in connection with the city's
effort to relieve the city center from a four-sided girdle of
railway tracks. Either a change in location, or grade sep
aration by tunneling or underpasses, for the main line have
been proposed.
! If a resolution adopted by the city council May 12, 1868,
L still effective, and it seems to be, it appears to give the
Southern Pacific company, as successors to the Oregon
Central Railroad company, authority to operate on all
streets in Salem except Commercial, Liberty, State and
Court. A letter to C. A. McClure, engineer for the long
range planning commission, from James A. Lathrop, tax
ttnd right of way agent for the Southern Pacific, quotes
the resolution as the authority "under which our main line
iji operated along 12th street."
J An extract from the minute records of the city council, May
iz, xooo.
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
Keep 'Em Home
By DON UPJOHN
The county court in. its new order covering parking on the
courthouse block has clamped the lid down close on parking at
night there and from July 16 on will keep the block free of cars
from 6 p.m.
to
7 p.m.. Maybe
bv a little amel
ioration of this '
order the block
quency in folks
not so juvenile.
It might be the
fighting mad. On a visit to Port
land, he left his car in a parking
lot not far from the Heathman
hotel. When he returned for
the car the caretaker on the lot
was missing and so were four
of his hubcaps. On the seat of
his car Gabrielson found his
keys and a note which informed
him that when he paid his park
ing bill, 60 cents, the hubcaps
would be returned to him. Ga
brielson says it looks like plain
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Truman Cabinet Split on
British Pound Devaluation
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Before Secretary of the Treasury Snyder left for
Europe he had a highly important and secret talk with President
Truman in which he outlined his plans for getting the British
to devalue the pound.
This is the real purpose of Snyder's sudden trip despite all
the publicity camouflage about
consultation with U.S. financial thus creating a tie and a chance
break the tie. Three senators, ac
cording to Senator Lucas, were
pledged to vote with labor, but
switched at the last minute
Capeheart of Indiana, Margaret
Chase Smith of Maine, and Hen
drickson of New Jersey.
Senator Lucas' skillful handl
ing of the Taft-Hartley fight, ev
en though he lost, will help his
difficult re-election chances in
Illinois.
The man who really defeated
Lucas was Byrd of Virginia who
omy, had informed Washington ad. Promised Senator Taft to
even before Snyder left that If "" vines vi n soutnern
the United States insisted on de- democrats, and did.
valuing the pound he would re- Salin's Successor State de
sign. This would probably mean Partment cables report a bitter
a general election in ningiana. oB"'s v"imi wc fumuura
Three members of the Tru- ver who shall succeed Stalin as MacKENZIE S COLUMN
man cabinet also disagree with un;unur ui ivussia. une poiit-
Snyder Secretary of State buro group supports Molotov,
Acheson, Secretary of Agricul- another Georgi Malenkov, who
ture Brannan and Secretary of is emerging as the new strong
man in tussia. Malenkov has
burst into prominence by suc
don.t ceeding Andrei Zhdanov, re-
ucctu uuuer mysterious
circumstances.
Colin. 1.1. n J ' 1 .
has the less it will buy of Ame- " amirai
r,nan -nftnn tnhaccn. Dork. etc. " Up With
experts.
Reason for
the camouflage
is that the trea
sury doesn't
want the British
public to know
that we are try
ing to run their
currency from
this side of the
Atlantic.
Sir Stafford
Cripps, head of
British e c o n-
Drew Pearaoa
"'"Ll IFSOME0NalNT
WK EVER SEE A
rJ? 7 1 ' fCj RM WALKIN6?-
OVii IfNT ODDS ARE A MILLION
ZC?LjSsA& TO I AGAINSTA DREAM'S
r. kTi C0MIN5 TRUE.Psy-
rfals&fc, h CHIATRISTS MAINTAIN.
i VV M'Vjy (YOUX ANSWER, .
fe, ..S ' JOSEPH BEZACH, CHICA60)
Labor Tobin.
Chiang Betting That World
War III Is Inevitable
Brannan and Tobin
want to devalue the pound be
cause the less value the pound
... " i . . . A, 111 I ..unliitinni T3nclll.Or)
Alderman Luarite onerea inc wiiuwms ibuiuuuh.
That the City of Salem hereby grants to the Oregon Central
Railroad company the right of way for their road through the
streets and allies of this city with the exception of Commercial
and Liberty ttreets and State and Court streets, not to exceed
two tracks unless with the consent of the city council.
The yeas ann nays being taken resulted as follows:
Yeas: A. J. Brown. J. C. Brown, Carr, Clarke, Gray, Holman,
Hoyt and Miller. Nays: None.
So the resolution was passed.
Attached is an affidavit from City Recorder Mark Poulsen,
dated October 20, 1927, certifying that the above is a true and
correct extract from the city records.
One wonders why the city council did not place a time
limit, annual fees, or other safeguards for the city on what
the Southern Pacific now claims its franchise for operat
ing on 12th street. But it must be remembered that in
1868, when Salem's population was only 1139 (1870 cen
sus), the railroad was regarded as more important to the
city than city streets, and was considered essential to its
future and any price to secure it deemed justified.
Even in 1880, some 12 years later, when the Oregon and
California railroad company, successor to the Oregon Cen
tral, was granted a franchise by ordinance No. 126 for sev
eral railroad tracks and operation on Trade street, from
the Willamette river to 12th street, no time limit was
stated and the franchise made perpetual, though minor
stipulations were imposed. The ordinance was passed
August 3, 1880, signed by Mayor W. B. Wait and Charles
W. Barrie, recorder.
Ordinance 1121, passed August 6, 1912, granted a 35
year franchise to the Portland, Eugene and Eastern rail
road, a Southern Pacific subsidiary, designed for electric
line competition with the Oregon Electric. It was a gen
eral franchise for railroad operation in the city, specifically
mentioning 12th street, from the south to north city limits,
including the operation of street car lines. It provided an
nual fees, but was never utilized and repealed in 1929, and
a new franchise for five years granted the Oregon Stages,
later succeeded by Oregon Motor Stages and still later by
the City Transit Lines.
Salem Needs An Explanation
i Salem's case to hold United Air Lines service has enough
merit to raise questions as to why the capital of Oregon
is put on the spot: Will it keep Mainliner service or will
it get feeder-line service (West Coast Airlines) instead ?
"' The Civil Aeronautics board has asked United to show
jause why it should not cut out service to Salem. This is
a strange situation, despite the nationwide move of the
CAB to cut out duplication of air line service so as to pare
airmail subsidies to the lines.
In the case of Salem, however, there is no duplication of
service. Furthermore, Salem is the only city on the Pacific
coast on United's system that doesn't have another airline
also serving the city. There is no feeder-line service al
ready here as there is in the case of Bellingham, Red Bluff
and other cities where "show cause" orders have been is
sued. ' Since Salem is on the direct air route of United between
Portland and San Francisco, there is no deviation from
course, so as to be served by the Mainliner outfit. By no
stretch of the imagination could it be said to be costly
for United to maintain service here under those circum
stances. As a matter of fact, United's business has been
increasing here year by year, according to local records.
And a comparison with other United stations shows Salem
doing well for its size and position.
For that matter, Salem should have some sny in the
CAB hearings. How about the local shippers of perish
ables who use air freight? The feeder-line system, which
has a good record, still does not handle air freight. And
if it did, there would be the problem of transfer at points
which might force present enterprises using the air freight
system to move elsewhere.
1 Salem merchants affected by this air freight are flor
ists, bulb growers, turkey and poultry hatcheries, and
specialties like mushrooms. These enterprises have spent
considerable money and time in developing a tie with air
freight fast service. It takes no effort to understand the
predicament they would be in if they lost the local United
outlet here.
: What about state officials, businessmen and others here
who need an easy system of air travel ? Perhaps a feeder
line is necessary, too, but, if anything, United's service
should be augmented instead of curbed. The Capital Jour
nal has repeatedly called for better service out of here.
Under the circumstances, the Civil Aeronautics board
hould explain to the people of the city and area why they
propose to cut off Mainliner service instead of having
United explain why it should remain here. Salem's case
stands on its own.
parking spaces could be thrown larceny to him, and he's asking
open to the local woo pitchers nis attorney to take over.
wno otherwise would seek the
lonely spaces on the suburban
nrMi in iha Inti.. T i
such likes. By "urate, the Bradstreet's should be triple
ivun n nut. cian aim. it
...... 1' ".. ...
That's no way to treat a lad
like Carl who's credit in Dunn
By JAMES D. WHITE
(Subslltutlnr for DeWitt MacKenzle, AP Foreisn NewA Analyst)
Chiang Kai-Shek has said it again.
If America doesn't come to his aid, the communists will take
rii u xj! j an unina ana eventually jsia.
Sir Stafford Cripps has some- ta ' - ch. sM Ms many chinese mainland ,s conditioned
what the same thing in mind- home Neither side has made the times. It still is true that, be- largely by how soon the Reds
though from a different angle. If slightest move t comemoaatym cause of the profound unrest decide to push it off entirely,
the pound is depreciated the Nimitz hL cabled the stae and poverty in both China and It got into this fix while get-
Bntish consumer will not be departmenZt That he's tired of Asia, communism has easy go- ting American aid, and the evi-
T timP1aSt idling his thumbVundlrthe' there. i. Jh-t one : o , , of
I'iZ : ..-.j hot Indian sun. But the generalissimo is talk- . "
Hard on Lobbyists The lob- ing about only half the question. ;r T8 ' V Y .lTu
byists are complaining the loud- He tells us what will happen if d,.to. su extent that it
est about th rrrmrf.llr,. ho rWn't Bpt AmPriran aid. He dldn do wnat " was supposed
Backing up Snyder against pitol Hill. while the senate does not say what will happen t0 d0-
the three cabinet members is chamber is closed down there if he gets it. Both are probably true.
Paul Hoffman, head of ECA, won.t be room in the tempOTary Maybe that would be because American aid to Chiang to fight
who fears collapse of his Mar- chamber for visitors or lobby- he has sunk to his present low the communists (one figure cited
shall plan unless the pound is ists. Incidentally, the temporary estate during a period when he ls 4 billion) was never more
devalued. In fact, Marshall Plan chamber will be so cramped was getting help from America. than a fraction of that voted
Ambassador Averell Harriman that the caoitol architect ha for Europe. And the story of
his
wants the food to be imported
from the British dominions and
Argentina, not from the USA.
parxing spaces on the court-
nOHSe DlDPk (tVPr in eilfVi nnnnln. IPL! . tl. - a
and mavbe station a rhnnpmn nr ...u v , u - ..u has been pressuring the British secretlv nrvWoH ,,i,, i At V-.I Dav he was still a wha happened to American.
two in strategic places, it would utility for the original purpose so vigorously, even before Sny- ber to remodel a larger room in national hero, symbol of China's equipped and trained Chinese
L"u.47 y g a ce moaeI ex" for which u was intended but
hibition of such like parking but comes in mighty handy in swab
also save gasoline. When we bing off the chin and lips after
" "ea t a young absorbing a hunk of luscious
woman this a.m., she seemed to boysenberry pie which, by the
der arrived, that lanky Sir Oli- the senate office building iust f'gnt against the Japanese in- armies is one of the most pro-
e senators won't put vader- Today Chiang is the Ioun.a stuaies in iutinty ana cor-
on the job,
courthouse block would stay
empty wimout tne need of pa
trolling it."
like all of it OK but the part way in oiir books, is one of the
abou. the chaperons. "Put them greatest triunmhs of nature.
she said, "and the
west oaiem, wnicn is plan
ning to vote on a possible mer
ger with Salem would make a
miphtv WPlrnmp nHrlitinn in iiik
.T,-Pnier ,s Vp fair city beinE 8 doggone nice
(B. Mike Column in Oregonian) hunk of a city in itself and be-
Carl Gabrielson, head of the tween the two there'd be a town
state motor vehicle division, is anybody would be glad to claim.
It Was HOT in Als Greenhouse
Lancaster, Pa. (() Hot? Think nothing of it. After all,
you could have been hotter. You could have been in Albert
Reitz's greenhouse.
Reltz was mopping his brow, looking at the thermometer
that registered 101 degrees when suddenly, wham!
A terrific blast shook the greenhouse and 30 panes ot heavy
glass were blown from the building.
Reltz made his way carefully through the glass and entered
the greenhouse to find an unbroken thermometer register
ing 142 degrees.
Apparently, Reltz said, sunlight beating through the glass
kept expanding the air inside until the' glass was shattered.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
ver Franks, the British ambas- jn Case the
sador in Washington, was rush- up with the inconvenience.
ea to ijonaon oy air to neip taxe (Cop;rlht mtl
the heat off.
Despite the strong differences AUTHOR OF YUKON BALLADS
within his own cabinet, and the
above ramifications, Truman ni m A I f t
iooerr yy. service in txiie
rptirpH" lparier nf a vptioial ruption the world has witnessed
government whose hold on the or some time.
Would fresh aid be any better
used? The answer lies in an
other question is what is left
of the Chinese Nationalist gov
ernment any more capable of
using help effectively?
There is no concrete evidence
of that, and, in fact, the little
Vancouver, B. C. J.R A man named Robert W. Service li ves rpeistannp thrtt le lpff In r,U!T,
Governor Dewey telephoned in seclusion in an apartment overlooking this city, a changed depends upon regional chief
his old friend, Senator Irving man from the Robert W. Service who created "Dangerous Dan tains like the Moslems in the
Ives, from Albany the other day McGrew." northwest whom Chiang never
to get some advice on who he Service, gray-haired, florid- French retreat by the war. Now, could depend upon in the past.
snouia appoint to tne temporary iacea ana wornea, aamntea tnat he lives chiefly for the day Why, then does he ask again
gave Secretary Snyder a com
pletely free hand in dealing with
the financial crisis.
NO "SENATOR DEWEY"
Wants to Lead Free Life
senate vacancy left by retiring his Yukon ballads, written early when he can go back
itopert wagner. in tne century, seemed now like Seclusion is his watchword
"Why don't you come down to the work of a rtranger. here. Desk clerks and elevator
Washington yourself?" urged "It seems as if they were boys in the apartment house
Ives. written by another man," he are instructed to turn away cal-
"No," replied Dewey, "I don't said. "I remember little of the lers.
want to." Yukon, or what I wrote while The favorite word in his vo-
Instead, he said he was con- there." . cabulary is "virile." A story
sidering two alternatives one What is more, Service doubts must be virile to interest him
to appoint a personal friend that he ever again could capture And he thinks the public feels l-nlanf apparently tmnn
such as John Foster Dulles or the atmosphere of the Yukon the same way. still could command then
Roger Strauss to finish out the that inspired the most famous of
senate year; or to appoint a his ballads.
strong politician who would
have a chance to win against was a Die to take the money
the democrats next November,
for American aid?
While there's life, there's
hope, and Chiang said he is still
the leader of the Chinese revo
lution. Perhaps two hundred
million Chinese behind Red
lines will think this is a joke,
but Chiang apparently thinks he
re
spect and allegiance if America
The Poorest Dog Is
An Empire to a Flea
In the latter category he plac
ed General "wild Bill" Donovan,
famous World War I hero and
head of the OSS super-spy agen-
iic aiwctya una acuii ,nl.iJ. enh-n ui ,:
more of interest in vicp than tn ... . """"
Always a lone wolf, Service virtue. communist civil war.
"The only society I like." hp .VasI wlnl.er n -nma- very
broueht in bv his earlv vpi-sp. atH i mn.h tnu Lninese with whom 1 discussed
and en intn spnlsinn nn u u tn,mh- u i mi the matter
o- v.. ...i. ..... wugiKi me uciitri. Alleles
told me of another
w;, get dowT to bedrock t
By HAL BOYLE
New York ffl Cuff notes by the poor man's philosopher;
After thoughts are what we have when we don't want our fun
spoiled beforehand.
A red wood
tree never hates
anybody and
it lives longer
than anything.
The poorest
dog is an em
pire to a flea.
A revolving
door is the best P-
example of seg
regation with
out discrimination.
HmJ Boyl
room a rouge gallery.
The biggest trouble with a
budget is you can't budge it.
Middle age is just a man's
compromise between a growing
sense of responsibility and a
growing sense of insufficiency.
A lazy man's boldest act is the
seizure of leisure.
Hollywood version of the
marriage vow: "For better or
else."
Lust is just love out of focus.
Everybody wants to get
A cat's conscience is in its what's coming to him without
claws. getting what he deserves.
The only community without Most men would rather part
gossip ls a cemetery. with their convictions than their
The hardest thing for a man hair,
to wear well is success and The louder anyone flatters vou
French Riviera.
"I have an intense dislike for and meet human people.'
artuiciai society." ne said. "In
cy in World War II, or Tom France, one could lead
Curran, New York secretary of life do what one wanted to do The public wants verse. If you
state. without interference or criti- have a talent for poetry, then
ivea susbcoicu cism irom ones neignDors." don't by any means mother it
snouia appoint tne latter type service was driven from his but try your hand at verse "
one who could use the four-
month period before November
to consolidate his strength and
and try to win against the demo
crats. Ives also added that, since
he was a Presbyterian, he
thought the new senator should
be a Catholic.
NOTE Dewey also mention- By JOHN ROSENBTJRG
ed two women as possible sena- New York, July 7 U-PJ The beauty queen is losing her bathing centrate on western problems
toriai cnoices jane ioaa ana auu. "u ucbicli muse in sia.
Mary Donlon. By 1954, she won't have it. No bathing suit. No cheesecake.
Several of John Foster Dulles' No "sexiness." Anvwav s man fhi
New York law associates were These predictions were made today by Grace Downs, owner of plained it to mey Chiang haw
discussing the report that Gov. a model agency and beauty staked everythSg on IrLnT
Dewey would nominate the el- school and sponsor of a double licly and in the future this, deli- ing the existence of his regime
derly New York lawyer to the entry in the M.ss America con- cate task wm be conducted in as the legal government of China
u- , ...j ';, .u. private bv femalP ton until war breaks out.
xi.-iuciiiuci ictat yecu, adiu ivnss uuwns saia tne Deauty - -
one, "we thought that Dewey contestant of tomorrow will we ve got to eliminate the
holds. This is his firm belief
lk.( tkM . . . 1 1 .
To budding poets, his advice tj. ...;.. j .!. j- i
a tree is: "Write verse, not noetrv. ki
In his request for aid he says
one is inevitable if he doesn't
get American help. Informed
Chinese say he thinks World
War III is inevitable no matter
what happens. His whole strate
gy is based on this idea, that
war is coming.
I might add that most Asiatics
seem to agree with him. Their
belief stems from the way they
think America and Europe con-
CUT OUT AURA OF 'SEXINESS'
Beauty Queen Is Now Losing
Bathing Suit to Evening Gown
nothing wears a man harder.
Memory is Just life's rear
view mirror.
Sex is here to stay, but are
you?
with his mouth, the more he is
laughing at you in his heart.
It is funny how many families
become sophisticated on Amer-
t allure is only public accept- ica after crude oil is discovered
ance of a man's private opinion on grandpa's farm,
of himself. An ostrich that insists on
sicking its head in the sand may
People who always are trying have its own end in view,
to make an easy dollar gener- . It isn't life that keeps good
ally wind up looking for a hard men down, kid. It's death,
buck. AH great preachers aren't hu-
This country will never be morists. But all great humor
safe until somebody invents a ists are preachers,
seeing-eye umbrella. The best way to praise God
Definition of a ladies' rest is to have children.
Errol Said He Was Fooling
London 0J.R) Movie Star Errol Flynn, wearying of red
tape, wrote "sex" as his occupation when he filled out forms
to visit Britain.
And, lest there be any misunderstanding, he wrote "occu
pation" under the query, Sex?"
Liberal-minded Immigration authorities held him for ques
tioning briefly when he arrived from Paris. But he told them
he was just fooling.
"They didn't seem to liki it," Flynn said.
country against Russia, just as
he was against Japan.
His price for being an ally
will rise accordingly, they predict.
Then, they say, he will again
would be elected and we would parade about in nothing less aura of "sexiness." in order to 'Trl ZnTgJtl7 SUt
De aoie to a t v l a e up uulles than an evening gown. appeal to all girls and to elim-
share of the firm s profits?" "The bathing suit has been a inate any possible objection to
Yes replied another, "the detriment to the bona fide competing for beauty titles"
day after election we were beauty contest," she said. "It she said
afraid Dewey would join the has scared off hundreds of
firm, and we would have to cut beautiful girls who would corn
up our share to divide with pete under different conditions."
Dewey.
Miss Downs said the most
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES beautiful girls in America never -
Aftermaths of the T-H Battle have been brought before the
Senator Virgil Chapman of public eye.
Kentucky, who owes his election "There are thousands of
entirely to Alban Barklcy, voted beautiful girls who would never
against Barkley and the admin- enter a beauty contest, simply
istration right down the line. because it s against their prin
SUCCESS IN TEN YEARS
Two Texas Sisters Have
Made Fortune from Idea
(Prom Industrial New Review)
The business success of two Texas sisters during the past 10
years shows how, under the American system, an idea, a small
There was a lot of fuss over ciples to exhibit themselves in sum of money, and courage to take risks may serve as foundation
Senator O'Conor of Maryland, a bathing suit." she continued, for a thriving enterprise that
who was brought back to Wash- "The girls object to it. Their gives work to hundreds. and Indianapolis. They sold to
ington for the Taft-Hartley vote, parents object. And, in many In 1938 Elsie Frankfurt de- New York shops.
O'Conor lived up to his advance cases, the clergy objects." signed a maternity gown for her .. . .
billing and voted with the ad- Miss Downs said many beauty sister, Mrs. Edna Ravkind. of ' ,1. t ,?u Frf t
ministration. However, when the contest officials support her. Dallas. It won so much praise " ,,: T ,i' , D Z
ht . h :,u to.. Mi., a . ih.i th..;,ip..MMinn,,i,. furt' 3ned the firm. Business
ed over to Taft's side and voted the first time, was crowned in them for sale.
for the injunction that he had an evening gown, she pointed With $500 capital, they hired
earlier opposed. This was also out. two seamstresses and opened a
true of Tydings of Maryland, "Thats the tipoff," she said, retail shop.
Frcar of Delaware (democrats) "That's the beginning of the end Within a year their business creasing production 50.
and Lodge of Massachusetts (re- for the bathing suit. In five had grown so much that manu- They have a new idea too
publican). years, it will be passe." facture was transferred to a loft, for making maternity dresses
One vote would have changed Miss Downs said girls also ob- They opened branch stores in that can readily be reconverted
the entire Taft-Hartley picture, jected to being "measured" pub- San Francisco, Los Angeles, for ordinary wear.
grew to more than $1,000,000 a
year.
Now the partners are ready
to build their own factory, in-
A