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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, August 11, 1949
The Eagles' Iron Lung
The local Fraternal Order of Eagles has acted to pro
vide an adult-size iron lung for possible use in the Greater
Salem area. This step is a precautionary one in case a
polio outbreak should occur here.
For this initiative, the Willamette aerie No. 2081 de
serves proper recognition.
The state has been spared any outbreak of polio on an
epidemic scale. Idaho and Texas, among others, have been
less fortunate.
But, for the health and welfare of the community, the
bringing here of an iron lung will relieve the anxiety that
might arise if the disease should strike. The wisdom of
taking such safeguards in advance is so obvious.
This helpful move of the Eagles is similar to the one
taken several years ago by the Salem labor council in
leading the campaign to make the first aid car possible.
It is another example of local people sizing up the needs
of the community and acting to meet them.
It is that same kind of initiative on a regional scale,
for instance, that can develop the Pacific Northwest and
make a Columbia Valley Administration unnecessary.
Records so far this year indicate that 1949 may be a
banner recent year for polio. More than 3000 nevn cases
have been reported already in August boosting the na
tion's total to over 11,000, roughly 4000 ahead of 1948 at
the same date. Last year, with a total of 27,680 cases
reported, was the second highest on record for polio inci
dence. The worst year was 1916 when more than 30,000
cases were counted.
Case figures, health authorities say, however, indicate
that many of the polio cases reported are so mild that they
would, a few years ago, have been diagnosed as colds in the
head. The 11,000 cases represent a ratio of 1 victim to every
15,000 persons. There is as yet no accurate check on the
number of deaths this year, but they are expected to
run between 6 and 9 percent of reported cases one fatali
ty to more than 150,000 persons.
An Associated Press survey shows that eight states
had reported more than 500 cases since the first of the
year. They were Arkansas 577, California 626,'lllinois 720,
Michigan 669, Missouri 597, New York 1,110, Oklahoma
592, and Texas 1,339.
Texas' health officer, George W. Cox, said the heavy
polio incidence in his state continues baffling. This month
and next are still expected to be the worst. Indiana re
ported 10 percent deaths, with no slackening in new cases.
Wisconsin counted three times as many cases this year
as in the same period of 1948. Minnesota noted fewer
cases in some areas. California, despite its high figure,
reported only about half as many cases as last year, and
noted 101 new cases reported last week compared with
250 for the same week last year.
Oregon in 1948 had 63 cases and 4 deaths. Up to (late
in 1949, there have been 89 cases and 2 deaths.
Neglecting Our 'Achilles Heel'
The military appropriation bill containing Alaskan de
fense projects, carrying $137,738,712 for defense construc
tion, has been shelved by the House of Representatives.
This in spite of the fact that Alaska is almost entirely
defenseless and an inviting field in case of war with Rus
sia, as has been testified to by numerous members of
Congress who took junket trips to inspect the territory.
Congress has just voted $5,797,000,000 to check Rus
sian aggression in Europe and the advance of communist
totalitarianism in Europe 3000 miles away but is not in
terested sufficiently in our back door, only 54 miles from
Russia, against invasion of the United States to appropriate
two and a half percent of that amount to defend a region
that practically adjoins Russia in Asia.
Governor Ernest Gruening, commenting on the action,
says that it is "nothing short of unbelievable that Congress
should perpetuate Alaska "as America's Achilles heel."
He continued:
"Alaska was (he onl.v part of America Invaded by the enemy
during World War II, it could be taken tomorrow by a minor
scale airborne invasion. Congressional action means the loss
of at least a year and a half in military construction that should
have been completed by now. Postponement is moreover the
height of wastefulness. It will mean all work will have to be
. stopped, construction crews shipped back to the States and
recruited all over again if and when congress decides to act
probably not until June, 1950, if then."
Congress is not much interested in the Pacific as is
shown by its refusal to grant statehood to either Hawaii
or Alaska yet an invasion of either territory would cause
as great a panic in the United States as the fictitious
"men from Mars."
BYJECK
Nothing Perfect
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Brass Gets Off to Bad Start
In Testifying on Arms Bill
By ROBERT S.ALLEN
(Editor's Note: While Drew Pearson is on vacation, his old
friend, Robert S. Allen, will pinch Jilt for him.)
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
Washington Maj. Gen. Lyman D. Lemnitzer encountered rough
going in his closed-door testimony before the house foreign af
fairs committee on the $1,450,000,000 European arms bill.
The working-over was administered by Rep. James G. Ful
ton, R., Pittsburgh, a plain-talking navy veteran.
Lemnitzer is one of the prin- '
cipal authors of the giant arma- further, let's cut out all the
ment measure. A 50-year-old gobbledegook."
MEN, BY 3 TO I, SMOKE
AA0RE THAN WOMEN.
(put that in yom Wf,
jMHoam, us Amies)
Sips for supper
West Pointer, he is deputy com
mandant of the national war
college and chairman of the for
eign assistance coordinating
committee. In this latter posi
tion, he has played an important
behind-the-scenes role in for
eign policy.
Lemnitzer appeared before the was worked out
committe flanked by a score of arrive at this
Lemnitzer came to an abrupt
halt.
Fulton pointed out that Lem
nitzer was addressing the for
eign affairs committee, not the
armed services committee.
"What we want to know," he
said, "is how this arms program
How did you
$1,450,000,000
CITIES WITH INCREASED STREET
ILLUMINATION SHOW 5 TO 3 BETTER
SAFETy RECORDS
THAN POORLY
LIGHTED
CITIES.
Big League Stuff
By DON UPJOHN
This opening of the new Sears Roebuck store today in the new
business center out Capitol street way might all be termed as big
league stuff, as is the entire development, so it seems quite ap-
a p p r o p r I
senior army officers. They were figure?"
so numerous they filled all the Lemnitzer replied that an
front seats. arbitrary price was fixed for the
As a result, the ECA and state cost of weapons to be sent to
department delegations had to Europe. These arbitrary figures
remain in the rear. These dele- have no direct relation to the
gations were headed by two top original cost of the weapons,
experts, Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner "Are all the weapons to be
from our
i jay
5U
OCULISTS CLAIM ODDS
ARE 50 TO I A6AINST AN
ADULT HAVING PERFECT VISION.
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
ijf- eV
Si
and Edward T. Dickinson, but
of the com- Lemnitzer did most of the talk
on it when ing.
He got off to a bad start by
the committee
the only member
mission who was
Swart also Joined up.
A plat was filed at the court- addressing
Don Upjohn
house today for Sylvan Park, a thouuh it were a staff confer- surpluses sent to Europe. Fur-
proposed summer home colony ence he was briefing. Heavily 'her, that as a result of this re-
up the little North Fork just be- interlarding his comments with Placement, the actual cost of the
low Taylor's grove. If things military terminology, he talked European program would be
follow the course pursued around at length about logistics, tables $1,850,000,000.
here the last few years as soon of organization and equipment . ""so am-iosed, un-
as it gets built up somebody and other technical matters,
will probably want to annex it "Just a moment," finally broke
to Salem. in Fulton. "Before you go any
a t e that Jim1
Mosolf, manag
er of the new
Scars store
should be an ex
big leaguer l n
baseball as he is
now in the big
league business.
Jim played
baseball in his
younger days
with the Los An
geles Angels, Pittsburg Pirates,
Chicago Cubs and Boston Braves OREGON SCHOOL EXPERIMENTS
and he has a nostalgic look when
he glances at three small fig
urines in his air conditioned of
fice, a tiny umpire in the center
taking a beating from a tower
ing batter and a catcher not
quite so tall. Yea, the Sears op
ening has been getting quite a
play, even nationally, as we not
ed a headline in our favorate
paper saying it is "Searing Hot
in the East." That's spreading
it out.
surplus supplies?"
asked Fulton.
Lemnitzer admitted t h e v
would not. Also, that army needs
would require replacement of
How to Raise Blind Child?
Parents Get Lessons Here
By WILLIAM WARREN
(United Prt'jui Stall CorrJ-lpantieir.)
Don't mollycoddle your kiddie just because he's blind, if you
don't want him to become a spoiled child.
Remember, in every respect he's a normal child, who happens
not to see. Treat
Lebanon A night-blooming
cactus cared for by Miss Helen
Clem for 15 years, redeemed its
bloomloss existence this year
in the nick of time. Keeping it
in a south window these many
years without a bloom or sign
of a bud, Miss Clem and her sis
ter, Miss Dorothy Clem, reach
ed Ihe end of their patience. So
they decided to throw it out. Af
nim nice ini.
happy, normal ,
one he Is, and '
he'll grow up to
happy, normal
adulthood.
The point.
was stressed and:
stressed again b
over the past
week at Ore
gon's first pre-
tLk i
ner questioning, that army in
telligence had greatly under
estimated Russian m it i t a r y
strength two years ago and con
siderable doubt exists as to the
currenoy and accuracy o f
present information.
He sidestepped direct criti
cism of army intelligence, but
the import of his remarks was
unfavorable.
"There is a great deal of feel
ing in the country and in con
gress," observed Fulton, "that
the military are shaping our for
eign policy. If that is true, it is
not a sound situation."
NOTE: Before testifying, Lem
nitzer submitted his lengthy pre-
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Quirino Puts the Question: ,
'Well What About Asia? '
By JAMES. D. WHITE ,
fSubstltutlni for DeWltt Mae Kenzie, AP Foreign News Anelrst)
In the midst of a debate on how much to spend on arming
Europe against communism, congress paused Tuesday to hear a
question from another precinct.
President Elpidio Quirino of movement might well help him
the Philippine Republic asked,
in effect, what about Asia?
Quirino's point was that Asia
will be lost to communism by
default unless the "same cour
age and vision" is applied there
that went into the democratic Pacifjc union was Cnina.s chi.
get reelected next fall. He faces
very stiff opposition.
e
It's also worth keeping in
mind that the first Asiatic lead
er to whom he talked about the
defenses of Europe
ang Kai-Shek. Tuesday he didn't
Inelilntn
ter being set temporarily in the for parents of blind children,
back yard, the cactus got busy, hcld at the gtate schooi ior the
starting new growth which turn- blind here,
ed into a bud and bloomed for
the first time early in June .Last whiio 25 blind or nearly stitute?
week it bloomed for the second blind youngsters, from 7 months Let's go back to the begin- Symington
eir fmir nlhor tnrirtli-c anrl
couple of attendants. Mary and Parea Discourse to William rye,
Jane, the brown - haired twin defense department press direc-
girls, are playing besides the tor' 'for suggestions."
small, hand propelled merry-go- "
round. POINTED BRUSH OFF
Others are exploring the big Last month, Rep. James Van
doll house and still others are Zandt, R., Pa., telephoned re
scooting down the home-made tlred alr General "Tooey"
chute or wriggling through the Spaatz and invited him to parti-built-in
culvert at its base. Some cipate in the centennial celebra
are bucking the hobby-horses. tlon o Altoona, Pa., Van Zandt's
And in their buggies, the babies home town. Spaatz, also a Penn
are lolling off to sleep, bottles sylvanian, promised to try to
wtintv. come.
How come this preschool in-
Several weeks later. Van
Zandt, navy reserve captain,
blasted air Secretary Stuart
and demanded a
time. Nearly six inches across, tn 5 years old. dozed in their ning, with the birth, let us say.
the flower has several rows of hnhv hneeies or romped merrily of Susie there are three Susies
pointed waxy-white petals with nrnund the olaveround of the among the 25
drooping stems. It began to show seven - acre campus, mothers ents take healthy, normal Susie
white petals as dusk fell and "went to school." Girl Scouts home ivith them. Then the time
was fully open shortly after and other capable attendants comes when her eyes should
dark. The Clems and their watched after the tots, who had start focusting, they don't.
neighbors sat up until after mid- come from all parts of Oregon, Concerned parents take her to ment and purcnase of the B 3g
night watching It and enjoying from Ontario in the east to their doctor and learn Susie . . ,
its fragrance. By 7 a.m. it was Astoria on the coast. will never see, witn ner eyes. ... Allnnna fnnrtinn
still fresh and fragrant, but one And a group of experts, tops What to do? What to do for onZfflqt 8 I al nnTa w
hour later the outer row of in their field, taught the mothers the best interest of Susie? ' . "
petals willed and by midmorn- the rudiments of care for the The preschool institute hence- f . , , ,,'"
ing it was gone. blind child, telling themin ef- forth will supply the intelligent, "J August 9 for
feet treat 'em normal and scientific answer. And so to "j " u gust ior
This is our old friend Hedda thovTl be normal. None of that school. " "eJ "JJtJ
Swarf s birthday, which one he ..oh. the poor little kid!" stuff. Crtaed
riocsn t opine. But by coinci- Throughout the one-week of That first Thursday night, ?hat make Tit iitota?
dence, it also is the 23rd anm- the institute, the note among Aug. 4, was get-together night, to accept your invTtion "
versary of his taking ocre as a mothers was one of jolliness and Blind Frank E. Saunders, mu- ... u,uu"'
member of the Salem zoning avid learning: among young- i iantr nt thL .hnni ninv,H .
probe of B-36 procurement. The
The proud par- gatjon -
Last week, Van Zandt wrote
Spaatz reminding him of the Al
toona invitation. Spaatz, who
had a big hand in the develop-
and planning commission, and stcrs. screams, scrambles,
during the entire 23 years of laughter and wailing for the
such service he hasn't missed a milk bottle same as in any
single regular meeting of the other gathering of 25 normal
commission. When it is consider- kiddies ranging from 7 months
ed how much his job of engi- to 5 years.
ncering has taken him out of Look at them.
town during that period, this Pat and Mike, the Wnnd twin
the
munu tur uieiii. iviuuicis .ij.- rt,l.,n, tr-i cu.i.
and ins ructors chatted and got dropped out o sight last .
acquainted. Then to bed. Moth- following the failure of hemis!
ers and youngsters were put up sjon t persuade President Tru-
fr iha u'onlr in tin hnve1 rinrm .
U. S. aid to her husband's totter
ing regime. But she is still in the
U. S., and still at work.
Madame Chiang has an estate
near Warrenton, Va., a mansion
in Washington and a large apart-
shows quite a job of meeting boys, are roughing it on the the tykes in tow, and mothers
attending. W. W. Rosebraugh is wooden swing, along with three went to school in the girls'
dormitory across the campus.
Walter R
Its Cooler in the Cooler
tory. Meals were in the school's
dining room.
Friday, the attendants took
He said Asia must first of all mention Chiang, who has lust
help itself, but that conditions been pictured as pretty hopeless
are so bad that western techni- as an anti-communist bulwark
cal aid and capital are needed by the American white paper on
if the job is to be done on time. China.
These are footnotes, and do
His sense of urgency, he said, not detract from the basic va
had led him to start a move- lidi'y of Quirino's basic ques
ment toward a union of Pacific tlon: what about Asla?
countries against communism. He makes it plain that the
It could serve as a reception spread of communism is forcing
center for whatever aid Ameri- this question into more equal
ca decides to extend. President Perspective with Europe.
Truman's "bold new program" Assuming that congress and
to help economically under-de- the American press and public
veloped countries is one way awake to the reality as Quirino
this may be done. describes it, the question of aid-
Tuesday, Secretary of the ing Asia is likely to boil down
Treasury Snyder asked congress to one of method,
to get one phase of this program The techniques of helping
started by guarantee.ng private Asia are ,ike t be differHent
American investments abroad. china has sho'wl or instanc(!i
President Quirino first sug- that aid like that for Greece, '
gested a Pacific union last win- dumped into the highly nation-
ter when the Atlantic Pact was alistic Asiatic picture, can result '
announced. He got little atten- in a debacle. Korea suggests the
tion at the time. apparently unbridgeable gap
To keep his proposal in per- that can yawn when the cold
spectlve, it is in order to note war is allowed to split an eth
that his leadership in such a nically coherent people.
Duke Left High and Dry
London, (UP.) The Duke of Edinburg, a Lieutenant In the
Royal Navy, spent an embarrassing 10 hours pacing the lop
sided deck of the yacht Fanny Rosa.
The vessel was left high and dry on a sandbank off the
Isle of Wright In the English channel.
Hundreds of holidayers walked across a mile-wide stretch
of sand to the stranded yacht and milled around shouting
pleasantries to the duke, husband of Princess Elizabeth,
and three other crew members.
The yacht was following competitors in the Cowes Re
gatta when it ran aground about two p.m. near Ryde.
A fast out-running tide left the boat perched on its side
with not a drop of water for nearly a mile.
The Fanny Rosa was finally refloated at midnight on the
next tide.
A Moscow dispatch says the Vnkhtangava theater has
scheduled for autumn production a play called "Missouri
Waltz." The Transport theater recently announced it would
present a new play called "The Mad Haberdasher." Who
says the Russians haven't a sense of humor?
Boyd Should Have Gone Along
Chilliwack, B. C. flJ.RiC'ivic-ntinded Alderman Kurt Boyd
Interrupted a lawn-bowling game to rush his partner, a vol
unteer fireman, to the fire station.
Boyd then returned to the game, and the fireman helped
extinguish a blaie.
The fireman then returned to the bowling green to inform
Boyd it was his house that had been on fire.
Saying Upheld-Justice Triumphs
Wake Forest, N. C. (UB Justice triumphed at the law
chool of Wake Forest College.
Jame F. Justice was top man of the 1949 graduating
last.
Ossining, N. Y., (UP David Spurill, of Brooklyn, said
the onl.v way he knew how to bent the heat was to get back
in the cooler. t
Upturned to Sing Sing prison here for breaking parole,
Spurill was far from diseonsulate.
"What a relief to get away from New York City," he
said. "Hot as a furnace down there."
'DIAMOND LIU VACATIONING
Mae West Wows 'Em
In Colorado Mining Town
Central City, Colo., Aug. 11 (IP) Brooklyn-born Mae West,
who says she brought sex out of the back room, is wowing 'em in
this state called "culture crazy Colorado" by a New York critic.
The musty old Central City '
Opera house, dark 10 months it attracted world
out of the year, is crowded intellectuals and was one nf th
summertime events that inspir
ed John Chapman, New York
Daily News critic, to dub the
ing in the background, she car
ries on a large correspondence
urging U. S. arms and money for
the Chinese nationalists.
FLASHES
As the defense department's
new "unification coordinator,
Lt. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney
now has for his office the ante
room of the Pentagon suite he
once occupied as deputy to Gen
eral George C. Marshall, when
nightly for Mae's saga of sin
titled "Diamond Lil." She in
troduced the play 20 years ago
in New ork when she was in state "culture-crazy Colorado.
ner nnuaie ous.
Her scheduled three-week
run, which opened July 30 has
just been extended another
week to meet the demand.
"I've got the feel for this one,'
she told an interviewer.
v, auiJCMiucnu- m , . -T -,, .. .
ent nf the sehonl and th man lu'' " mle KeeP-
who initiated the institute, wel
comed the mothers. Gov. Doug
las McKay extended greetings
on behalf of the state. Betty
Ann Swanson, counsellor at the
school explained the aims of the
institute. Miss Vlasnik began
her daily series of instructions
in preschool training for blind
children.
Saturday Miss Vlasnik con
tinued her valued instructions,
and Dr. Lowenfeld sDoke on
"The Blind Child and His he was army chief of staff.
World." The dads who came Sulphuric Rep. John Rankin,
down for the week-end, and got Miss., is no longer a member
in on the group discussions and of the house Un-American activi
the individual conferences held ties committee. But he has an in
nightly by Miss Vlasnik. side contact in the committee
Sunday, the parents heard through Ben Mandel, onetime
John Taylor, specialist in handi- Rankin clerk. Mandel is still on
renowned capped children's programs for the committee's payroll and
the state department of educa- keeps his former boss informed
tion. of what's going on. Mandel sees
eye-to-eye with Rankin on his
Then, this week, through race views.
Thursday, the mothers heard Dr. Following Supreme Court Jus
Morrison discuss "Social and tice Murphy's death, a group of
Emotional Development of the top Washington correspondents
Child," Dr. Maynard Shiffer, Sa- were polled on whom they fav-
"r've been'7roClmdytheSsteaBSen 1 081 Development of the Child.' " votes for former secretary o" war
r l n' ,hi.-f,n.'""S They heard stressed and Robert Patterson. 2 for Senator
stressed again the objcctive let Joe O'Mahoney, 4 scattering.
me Daoy De normal, miss ttne w. Park Kennedy, new head
Mae offered
that. too.
"They say back
comment on
east you've
enough to know that culture can
be pushed off the wings by a
I ; ; li . un: LWUV I
"This mining town would - " Westensee. sightless herself and of the Brotherhood of Railway
have been home grounds for "uw "uw ' '"g ul an instructor at the school, war- Trainmen. assured President
ned against "Smother Love." Truman that the organization
Coloradoans and vacation vis- The theme was. don't isolate would continue the aggressive
itors are chuckling at the same the child. Let him play with liberal policies of the late A. F.
lines that tickled New Yorkers other youngsters in the neigh- Whitney. "We are going to carry
when Mae launched "Diamond borhood. on their terms, and 0n with the same tempo and
Lil." don't pamper him while he plays, drive as Mr. Whitney did," Ken-
The buxom stage veteran gets If kids push him around, he'll nedy said. "Our organization
one of her biggest laughs when soon learn to push them around, n.111 i.i,. L ,.ii.., T,-t i
honoring she purrs: "It s not the men In They'll all be on eaual terms if .v, men ; 1
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, my life but the life in my men the adults will just keep out of for liberal candidates "
German philosopher. that counts." n. icopnum
that gal (Diamond Lil). She
would have slept while the min
ers dug the gold out of the hills.
Then at night she would have
dug the gold out of the miners."
Central City is just over a few
14,000 foot peaks from Aspen,
Colo., site of last month's inter
national celebration
Cooperatives Build
Regular Markets for
Your Walnuts and Filberts
An overall record crop of tree nuts filberts, walnuts,
almonds and pecans will be harvested this fall.
The major portion of this largest of all nut crops will
be marketed through grower-owned and controlled mar
keting cooperatives. Without these organizations, such
record-breaking nut crops as arc expected in 1949 could
not be marketed in an orderly, economical manner.
Members of Northwest Nut Growers, through their
own associations, directed and controlled by the growers
themselves, have developed a marketing organization with
sales and advertising plans to sell their walnuts and filberts
Ibis year and in future years.
MEMBERSHIP ROLLS FOR 1949 CROP
CLOSE SEPTEMBER 15
H you agree fherf ong-ronge marketing and sales planning
Is Ihe best way to sell your Filberts and Walnuts, write
or get in touch with your nearest local unit listed below.
Amlly-Cotlon Nut Growers, Amity. Or. gon
DundM Nut Growers, Dundee, Oregon
lebonon Nut Growers, tebonon, Oregon
Oregon Not Growers. Nawberg, Oregon
logeno fruit Growers ss'n.(Nut Divi.ion) Eugene. Oregoe)
Salem Nut Growers, Solent, Oregon
Washington Nut Growers, Inc, Vontouver, Woihingtoo
Northwest Hut Growers
Dundee, Oregon