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61st Year, No. 168
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Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 16, 1949 .
Price 5c
Statutes of
1949 Session
Effective Today
Over 350 New Laws in
Force; Many Activities
Of People Covered
By JAMES D. OLSON
More than 350 bills passed by
1'ie 1949 legislature became law
Saturday. Of the 593 measures
passed by the legislature, 121
carried the emergency clause
and became effective immediate
ly after the governor had signed
-them.
I Five of the new laws will not
become effective until January
1, 1950. This group includes a
law providing for staggered in
surance of motor vehicle license
plates; the new law governing
regulation and rates for big
trucks; limiting set-nets in Til
lamook bay; amendment to the
state branding law and a law
'increasing out-of-state angling
and hunting licenses.
The more important laws
which became effective Saturday
included: Providing for creation
of the office of state milk mar
keting administrator to be named
by the board of agriculture; a
fair employment practices act;
increased industrial ac c i d e n t
benefits and licensing of prac
tical nurses.
New $7200 Job
v The new milk administrator
will succeed E. L. Peterson, who
as director of agriculture also
was the milk administrator.
The new administrator will re
ceive $600 a month and serve at
the pleasure of the agriculture
board.
An appropriation of $900,000
was made by the legislature to
the industrial accident commis
sion to provide for increased
workmen's compensation bene
fits. The fair employment . prac
tices act seeks to prevent dis
crimination by unions, employ
ers and employment agencies
, against 'anyone seeking empioy-
. mnnt Vipnnnar. nf pnlnr raliffinn
or race. The law will be ad
ministered by the state labor
commission with the advice of
Vc?n advisory committee.
"(The i legislature followed
trend in other states in licensing
practical nurses. The new law
will be administered by the
existing board of graduate nur
ses. A six-member advisory
board on nursing, including two
practical nurses, is also set up
by the law to advise on admims
tration. Voters Pass on Pensions.
By invocation of the referen-
dum on the old age bill passed
by the 1949 legislature, this law
will not become effective unless
It is approved by the voters at
the November, 1950, election.
Welfare work in the state will
continue under the old welfare
law. The new law contained
numerous benefits not contained
in the old law but old-age lead
ers were dissatisfied with the
legislation and obtained suffi
cient signatures on the petitions
to refer the law to the voters.
(Continued on Page 5, Column 7)
Merger Affects
Local Flax Mill
Stockholders of California
a Cotton Mills company, of which
Oregon Flax Textiles of Salem is
a connection, and National Au
tomotive Fibres, Inc., have ap
proved a proposed merger of the
two, according to J. R. Millar,
president of the latter.
With the issuance of seven
shares of National's stock for 10
shares of Cotton's, says an offi
cial statement, the merger is ex
pected to become effective July
31 when National's shares of au
thorized capital stock will be in
' creased to 1,500,000 shares from
1,200,000, and its issued and out
standing shares to 996,152 from
953,779.
While the two companies have
long held stock interests in each
other, the merger should result
in greater uniformity of earn
ings, and the combined compa
nies should be - able to enjoy a
more stable earning record than
either company has had in the
past, Millar said.
California Cotton was incor
porated in 1883, and manufac
tures cotton carded yarns, wrap
ping and seine twines, dryer felt
for paper mills, linen floor cov
erings, flax rugs, and mops. Its
plants in Oakland, Calif., Un
iontown, Ala., and Salem have a
combined floor space of about
350,000 square feet
I Directors of National Automo-
r1ive Fibres, Inc., declared a div
idend of 40 cents a share on the
company's common stock, paya
ble September 1, 1949, to stock
holders of record August 10,
1949.
New Silverton
Route Chosen
for
Construction
State Highway De
partment Petitions for
Overpass
By DON UPJOHN
The state highway de
partment isn't paying much at
tention to the controversy over
the proposed new routing of the
Salem-Silverton highway and is
going ahead with plans to Im
prove the road with federal
funds on the new route.
This is indicated by form of
petition it has sent to the
county court to make applica
tion before the public utilities
commissioner for permission to
establish an overpass over the
Southern Pacific railway tracks
between Middle Grove and Sil
verton. This overpass must be
built on the new route if built
at all and federal funds have
been expressly reserved for its
construction.-
To Provide Rights of Way
Under the petition as submit
ted by the state highway de
partment the county's duties as
to the overpass as listed will be
to provide all rights of way, to
maintain the structure and its
approaches and to enter into an
agreement with the railroad
company as to easement for
right of way over its property.
The duties of - the railroad
company will be to grant the
county an easement, to make
necessary revisions in its tele
phone and telegraph lines dur
ing construction and afterwards,
to furnish certain guard rails
along its tracks and to furnish
flagmen and watchmen during
construction.
(Concluded on page S. Column g)
To Transport
Bean Pickers
Transportation of pickers to
the bean fields on something of
a modified basis is expected to
start from the Salem office of
the state employment service
next .Tuesday, W. . H. Baillie,
manager, has been informed.
This will constitute the first
service of the kind' for the sea
son and will be expanded until
the peak of the harvest has been
reached.
The crop outlook is considered
excellent and acreage has been
increased approximately 25 per
cent over last year.
An unusual situation was
brought to the attention of Bail-
lie when Mrs. Gertrude L.
Hauth, farm labor representa
tive in the Mt. Angel district,
reported that picking of early
hops would start August 1, about
two weeks earlier than usual.
Reopening of branch employ
ment offices at Woodburn and
Silverton will be effective Mon
day with Julia Kallak and Al
ta Hall, respectively in charge.
An office will be opened in the
West Stayton school for the first
time under the supervision of
A. N. Arnold and another is due
to start functioning at Independ
ence where Mrs. Beth C. Mills
will be in charge.
Signs Housing Bill President Truman (seated) puts hii
signature on the housing bill first Item of his "fair deal"
program during White House ceremony. Watching are (left
to right) Sen. Burnet B. Maybank (D., S.C.), Sen. Ralph Flan
ders (R., Vt.), Sen John J. Sparkman (D., Ala.), Federal
Housing Administrator Raymond Foley, Rep. Brent Spence
(D., Ky.) (AP Wirephoto)
32 Foreign Spies
Given
Visas to
Enter Country
21 Involved Engaged
In Active Red Espion
age Abroad
Washington, July 16 W The
Central Intelligence agency re
ported to congress today that si
representatives of foreign gov
ernments given visas to enter
this country have records of spy
work abroad.
These 32 are among 100 for
eign representatives about whom
a senate judiciary subcommittee
questioned the CIA,
In the same group, the intelli
gence aeencv reported, are 29
persons listed as high-ranking
communist party officials.
Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillen
koetter. CIO director, wrote the
committee that 21 of the indivi
duals involved "have reportedly
or allegedly been engaged in act
ive communist organizational
work of an underground or sub
versive nature outside their
homelands."
Only in Foreign Activities
Hillenkoetter made it plain
that he was reporting only on
activities of the 100 in countries
outside the United States. H e
noted that the CIA has no police
enforcement powers within
this country. Records of activi
ties here would have to come
from the FBI and other agen
cies, he said.
(Continued on Page 5, Column 5)
Hawaiian Dock
Seizure Bill
Honolulu, July 16 (P) Ha
waii s governor xurneo. loaay
toward government operation of
docks as a solution for the long
shore strike that has paralyzed
ports in these islands for 77
days. .."
Governor Ingram M. Stain
back expects to call the terri
torial legislature Tuesday into a
special session to enact a dock
seizure bill. It will be the main
measure in a legislative program
being drafted to end the tieup
Government operation, said
the governor yesterday, may be
considered as "union busting"
by some and "free enterprise
busting" by others. He added:
"Perhaps it may be both, but
it certainly would be citizen
saving." Jack Hall, leader of the 2000
striking CIO stevedores, imme
diately asserted the proposed
legislation "follows the employ
er line." There was no comment
from employers.
The stevedores, members of
the Interna t i o n a 1 Longshore
men's and Warehousemen's un
ion, struck May 1 to boost their
hourly pay from $1.40 to $1.72.
Employers once offered to go as
high as 14 cents an hour, then
withdrew their offer. Negotia
tions have been broken off.
Recall Petitions Filed
Portland, Ore., July 16 (U.B
The recall movement against
Multnomah County Sheriff Mike
Elliott rolled forward today aft
er the first 300 petition signa
tures were filed for verification.
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Mill Creek Now Paradise for Juvenile Fishermen Top:
John Baker, 9; Jerry Baker, 7; Bill Brown, 6; Jimmy LeBold,
9, and Donny Lebold, 11, make good catches of rainbow trout
near Turner, a section of the 17-mile stretch of Mill creek
between Salem and Stayton dedicated by legislative act to
juvenile fishermen, exclusively. Lower, left: Some of the 1104
rainbow trout eight inches in length released near Turner
by the state game commission Friday. Lower, right: Henry
Lebold holds the hose in midstream while Roy DeLosier of
the state game commission releases part of the quota of
10,000 trout assigned to this Juvenile recreation area, first of
Its kind in Oregon.
Fishing Paradise for
Youth Becomes
' Reservation of Mill creek between Salem and Stayton as a
recreational area, exclusively dedicated by legislative act for
juvenile fishing, became a practical reality Friday morning when
1104 raibow trout furnished by the state game commission and
averaging eight inches in length were released in the stream
near Turner.
This recreational area for
youth, exclusively reserved for
iuvenile fishermen to the age
of 17, was sponsored by the Sa
lem Izaak Walton league.
Patrolling the 17-mile stretch
of Mill creek and maintaining
good relationship with property
owners along the stream will be
a responsibility of those juve
niles who fish in this recreation
al area, first of its kind to be
established in Oregon.
Thirty-one streams and lakes
in Washington are dedicated ex
clusively to youthful fishermen.
Trout used in stocKing ivini
creek were obtained from the
Roaring river hatchery and are
one year old. They were deliv
ered to Turner in a mobile fish
tank and were released both
manually and by syphon into
the stream.
Trout of this size may be fish
ed legally and many boys from
the Salem and Turner areas are
expected to enjoy a pleasant
week-end angling between Sa
lem and Stayton.-
Present to receive the fish on
behalf of the Salem Izaak Wal
ton league were Rex Sanford
and Emory Lebold.
Army Suspends
Two Generals
Washington, July 16 (P) The
armv today announced tempo
rary suspension 01 juaj. uens.
Alden H. Waitt. chief of the
chemical corps, and Herman
Feldman, in connection with in
vestigations of alleged influence
in the award of army contracts.
Both men are army career
veterans.
An anouncement issued by the
national military establishment
said:
"Secretary of the Army Gor
don Gray announced today that
he had temporarily relieved from
their duties Major General Al
den Harry Waitt, chief of the
chemical corps, and Major Gen
eral Herman Feldman, the quar
termaster general.
"Following published reports,
certain information concerning
persons who claimed that they
were able to exert influence in
procuring army contracts was
secured by the subcommittee of
the senate committee on expend
itures in the executive depart
ments. This information was
further developed by the inspec
tor general of the army and a
(Continued on Page I, Column 4)
Reality
Curious Salem
Man's Question
Cartoon Feature
Have you a good idea for
"The Wizard of Odds," car
toon feature that appears daily
on the editorial page of the
Capital Journal?
Kenneth Burnett, Salem
fireman, whose post of duty is
at the North Salem station,
had an idea. It was featured
in the cartoon yesterday, with
credit given the Salem man by
Guild, the cartoonist.
"What are the odds," Bur
nett inquired, "against fatal
injury in a fencing match?"
The reply, accompanying
the drawing, was that fencing
is almost 100 percent safe.
The odds are 500,000 to 1
against fatal injury.
If you have a question send
it to the Capital Journal, and
it will be forwarded to the
New York Post Syndicate,
which distributes the feature
to newspapers throughout the
United States.
British Strike
Held Red Plot
(Br the Ajjoellted Preul
The British government call
ed in leaders of two waterfront
unions today in an effort to set
tle a strike that has dealt a
crushing blow to Britain's trade.
The labor ministry's top nego
tiator met with executive com
mittees of the lightenermen's un
ion and the dockers' union.
The government charges the
wildcat strike is a communist
plot to stifle international trade
and bring Britain to her knees.
More than 14,000 stevedores are
idle. Troops are now manning
the government-seized docKs.
The strike came at a time
when Britain is facing a stag
gering financial crisis and gov
ernment leaders have urged a
greater flow of British export
goods for national survival.
The national economy of one
British dominion Australia-
on the other side of the world is
suffering a similar blow from
what the Australia government
also calls a communist plot
:
Fire Refugees
Fed and Housed
Cave Junction, Ore., July 16
(P) Sixty families, who fled
from a forest fire in this south
ern Oregon area, were being fed
and housed here today, while
crews fought to extinguish the
quieting flames.
. , A 'forest fife jumped a 100
foot wide river late yesterday
and swept along a four-mile
strip of farm and timberland,
burning several houses and
sending 60 farm families flee
ing before it.
Evacuees bedded down in the
Pentecostal church, the Holland
hotel, and many private homes of
this small community. The Am
erican Legion hall was thrown
open to store household goods
the farmers brought here for
safekeeping.
The refugees dined and break
fasted on Red Cross meals, serv
ed by the Legion auxiliary.
The forest fire, which had
blackened an area four miles
long and more than a mile wide,
calmed down during the night.
Foresters hoped that barring
sudden brisk winds would
spread no further.
At Portland, the weatherman
gave encouragement with the re
port that Oregon's hot spell,
which had kept fire danger high
all week, "was definitely brok
en over the entire state."
K. F. Man Named on
Watchmaking Board
Governor Douglas McKay to
day appointed J. C. Rcnie, Kla
math Falls, to serve three years
on the state board of watchmak
ing examiners. He succeeds
Hans F. Hays, Portland, who
died.
Hollls Hull, Albany, was re
appointed to a five-year term
on the same board.
Start Reforestation of
Tillamook Burn Area
By MARGARET MAGEE
Inaugurated Monday at a ceremony to be held at Owl Camp
in the Tillamook Burn will be the nation's largest lorest renaDiu
tation project, involving planting and restocking of some 725,000
flpni nf atate forest land.
The ceremony at Owl camp,
Grove on the Wilson River high
wav in the center of the Tilla
mook burn, is slated for 11 a.m.
(daylight savings time). Invited
to attend the event termed by
leading foresters as another mile
stone in the nation s forest pro
gram, have been representatives
citizens, foresters, lumbermen,
public officials, delegates from
Chambers of Commerce through
out this section and all interest
ed persons.
Giving the main speech at the
ceremony, marking the start of
a 15-year program to be financ
ed by $10,000,000 worth of long
termed, low-interest rate bonds,
voted by the people of the state
last November, will be Gov.
Douglas McKay.
The response to Gov. McKay's
speech is to be given by Ed
mund Hayes, chairman of the
Czech Reds' Manifesto
Calls for Liquidation of
Roman Catholic Church
Truman Steel
Board to Start
Work Monday
Washington. July 16 VP) A
presidential factfinding board in
the steel labor dispute took over
one of the nation's biggest eco
nomic questions today should
there be a "fourth round" ot
postwar wage increases?
The three-man board was ap
pointed last night by President
Truman to end a tense 72 hours
speculation over whether 1 the
steel industry, or a big part of
it, would be shut down indefin
itely today.
The board's first get-together
was arranged today for 10 a.m
Monday. At that time the mem
bers will confer informally with
Presidential Assistant John R
Steelman at the White House.
The board's recommendations
of wages, pensions and insurance
issues in the steel dispute won't
be binding on either the indus
try or Philip Murray's CIO-
steelworkers. But the White
House hopes it will point the
way to a settlement.
And how the steelworkers
fare on their fourth round de
mands may well become a pat
tern for all industry. It has hap
pened that way before.
(Concluded on Fag i. Column 6)
Use of Surplus
Arms Sought
Washington, July 16 W) Sen
ator George (D-Ga) said today
the senate may sidetrack Presi
dent Truman's $1,450,000,000
foreign military program and,
instead, authorize the army to
furnish arms to Europe from
surplus stocks.
This move could be made by
resolution, George told report
ers, without taking formal ac
tion on the disputed arms pro
gram. The veteran Georgian said the
plan is not yet under active stu
dy but it is one of the possibil
ities in sight to achieve an At
lantic defense against possible
attack from Russia. He added he
has grave doubts congress will
act at this session on the presi
dent's proposed arms plan.
George's statement came as
foes of the North Atlantic trea
ty counted on 11 certain votes
against ratification of the pact.
Four other senators were list
ed as doubtful and their friends
said they may go in either di
rection. The show-down will come on
the final vote next Thursday.
And senate leaders saw little
chance of any important change
of sentiment by then.
The opposition total is far
short of the 33 votes needed to
defeat the pact if all 96 senators
cast their ballots. The treaty be
comes binding ort the United
States if approved by two-thirds
of members voting.
located 12 miles west of Forest
- "
joint committee on forest con
servation. Dean Paul M. Dunn
of the Oregon State college
school of forestry and state
chairman of the Keep Oregon
Green association, will preside
at the ceremony.
State Forester N. S. Rogers
states that a loggers' feed will
be served the guests at noon fol
lowing the short ceremonies and
field demonstrations have been
announced by Deputy State For
ester George Spaur for the aft
ernoon. The field demonstrations, di
rected by John B. Woods, Homer
G. Lyon, Jr., R. M. Kallandar
and Edward Schroeder. will in
elude direct seeding from the
air helicopter, snag falling, hand
planting, and road and trail mak
ing.
Effort to Enforce
Excommunication
Declared Treason
Prague, Czechoslovakia, July
16 (Pi A Czech communist par
ty manifesto called today for li
quidation of "our greatest ene
my, the church."
The manifesto came on t h t
heels of a statement by Justice
Minister Idjpei Cepicka that
anyone who moves to put into
effect the excommunication of
communists decreed by the Vati
can will be arrested and tried
for treason.
(A Vatican informant said ex
communication requires no en
forcement, that it acts upon the
guilty in the secrecy of their
own consciences.)
Liquidation Imperative"
The party manifesto declared
it was imperative to "liquidate
the enemy" in order to complete
the communization of the coun
try. This, it said did not mean
liquidating the Roman Catholic
church entirely, but did mean li
quidation of chureh order. At
another point the manifesto
spoke of liquidating "the church
question."
It said this move to crush
church authority was especially
necessary because of the hierar
chy's hold on the peasantry,
which must be broken to make
way for the collectivization of
farms.
It called for the building of a
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well uciwccu uie uisiiups auu
the people. It urged a campaign
to turn the people against the
Catholic primate, Archbishop Jo
sef Beran, now a semi-captive of
the government.
Blasted at Beran
In a fiery speech yesterday
Cepicka blasted Archbishap Be
ran as a traitor and announced
that, a law Jiad been drafted to
take control of the church.
The justice minister is listed
as a Catholic in the archives of
the national parliament.
In the fast-moving conflict
government leaders have:
1. Publicly accused the Cath
olic hierarchy led by Archbish
op Josef Beran of treason against
the stale.
2. Threatened that anyone
who tries to carry out in this
country the pope's orders for ex
communication of communists
will be prosecuted for treason.
3. Announced the drafting of
bill for control of churches
which will give the government
a stranglehold rule over all de
nominations, including prior ap
proval of any pastor or high
church official, on political
grounds. The bill would make
any pastor, priest or high church
official as much a government
employe as any bureaucrat.
Vatican Says
It's 'Nonsense'
Vatican City, July 16 WP)
Excommunication needs no en
forcement.
That was the answer today of
a Vatican source to a Czecho
slovak threat to prosecute those
who carry out the papal order
against communists, denying
them the sacraments of the
church.
'Excommunication has no
need of a material executor who
could be traced and punished,
the informant asserted. "Ex
communication acts upon the
guilty in the secret of the con
science and it is irremediably
automatic whenever a person is
guilty in the sense contemplated
by the decree of the Holy office.
"Every Catholic, who is real
ly one," the source continued,
"could not refrain from feeling
the gravity of the excommuni
cation as a moral fact preclud
ing every way of salvation and
tainting with an indelible guilt
whoever does not return to the
truth of the Catholic church."
Che source called the Czecho
slovak threat of prosecution
"laughable nonsense."
New York Bus Strike
To Be Extended
New York, July 16 P) New
York City's giant network of
bus lines, already severely crip
pled, faces the threat of a great
ly widened strike next week.
With bus service of some 1,
125,000 daily riders now shut
down, the CIO transport work
ers union made plans for possi
ble extension of the strike to
lines used by 1,800,000 more
paisengers.