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BY BECK
A Dog's Life
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Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Sept, 21, 1949
j The Wait Has Been Long
i So many months have passed since the Baldock traffic
i plan for Salem was revealed that actual and final ap
1 proval of the plan by the State Highway Commission Tues-
day oomes almost as a let-down. Because there was
1. noticeable disappointment that the commission didn't also
1 approve the Mehama-Mill City road or a four-lane high
!j way north is no reason, however, that the importance of
I the Baldock plan approval should be minimized,
t The Baldock plan eventually will mean four things to
Salem: A bridge across the Willamette river, improved
Pacific highway through the city, a one-way street grid
system, and an entrance for the North Santiam Highway
I into Salem.
Each one of these Items Is important in itself.
(Of course, only a start will be made with the granting
of $2,385,000 on these four projects which have been
estimated to cost ultimately $7,600,000. But the start
will be significant.
' Those in West Salem and Salem who have worked these
j many years to get another span across the Willamette
can vouch for the importance of that one project alone.
And that bridge, with remodeling of the present span, is
1 included in the funds approved Tuesday.
An imnrnvpH PnpifiV hlirhwnv thymic)! the citv. nllls A
WHY CANT YOU
TRAIN YOUR 008
TO STAY Rl
AT YOUR HE
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pension Plan Issue
Threatens Social Security
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Washington social security experts are worried
about what the steel fact-finding board recommendations will do
to the old-age pension and social security program now before
congress.
What they fear is a series of special old-age pension plans for
certain indus- Twi;. a.7.iUZ l-j ii
Zealand to let bygones be by
gones and invite the Japanese to
join.
Latin Loans Secretary of
State Acheson is telling Latin
American delegates to the Unit
ed Nations who complain about
not getting economic aid from
the U.S. that the international
bank and monetary fund has
made 70 percent of all its loans
to Latin America.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
SIPS FOR SUPPER
You Figure It
By DON UPJOHN
Summer's slipped out and fall slips in. The old equinox is with
us again and instead of being bold and blustery was just like
spring today. An interesting connotation may ba noted that this
is an occasion of the year when the day is just as long as the
night and vice versa, there being just as much darkness as there
la daylight and
trial groups that
have the strike
power to get
them.
This might
leave millions
of less-organized
workers who
have less power .4
to strike with a
inadequate old- f A
age p e n i i o ns fc V .
and meagre so- " "
cial security protection.
Under the Doughton bill, now
pending on the house calendar,
nearly 50,000,000 employes
would share contributions with
employers to double present so
cial security benefits. The steel
board, however, favors a pen-
PIANISTS PPECIOOS HANDS,
I fte I BECAUSE OF CONSTANT
if Vll ! EXEPCISE, ARE 3 TIMES LESS
Paratrooper Tells Truman
Master Sgt. Jim Hendrix, who
fell 1000 feet from an airplane
and lived to tell about it, called
at the White House for the sec
ond time the other day.
On a previous visit, President
Truman had pinned the Congres-
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. by-pass route generally following Lancaster drive, will
' mean eventually an adequate route all the way to Port
, land. Only the Salem section is included in the Baldock
I plan, but, of course, when that much of a step forward
i has been made, the route north can be considered only a
I matter of time
The one-way grid system, another point in the Baldnck
I plan, offers the basis for an easing of the traffic troubles
1 of the city. The suggested street plan came from traffic
4 engineers who know the city well. If an outside engineering
I firm had been hired by Salem to make the study, the cost
would have run close to $50,000 for the plan alone. But
j this study was given the city.
The locating of a proper entrance to the city for the east
t west highway leading to the North Santiam route will
become more and more important as that route, suddenly
I opened up by the new link between Gates and Mill City,
I offers a direct road through Salem to the Coast.
So, a start on at least two of these four parts of the
( Baldock plan is no cause for a let-down or a singing of
the blues because the highway commission didn't approve
more projects. It's unfortunate, it is true, that neither a
; four-lane route immediately north of the city nor the Me
: hama-Mill City road were not backed by the granting
:of funds. Both are urgently needed, but the commission
1 didn't see fit to cover the projects.
' Nevertheless, actual approval of the Baldock plan is
, reason alone for soma rejoicing. The wait has been long.
'Veterans on the Right Track
A group of young businessmen veterans of World War
i II in Detroit, are launching a nation-wide program to as
: sure success of ex-Gl's who have gone into business for
1 themselves or are contemplating doing so. The idea is
for ex-servicemen with business experience to pool their
resources and lend a helping hand to other veterans who
' want to lie their own boss.
The World War II Veteran Businessmen's association
was organized as a local Detroit association last June and
its success has inspired veterans from eight midwest states
to form a national organization. Delegates are present
from Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and
Kansas.
Mayor Arthur W. Wermouth of Wichita, Kansas, has
' been installed as national president. He was "the one-man
army of Bataan." He says:
"Ever since the end of the war, veterans who have asked
: for a little help in buying a home or starting their own bus
iness or going to school have been painted by some inter
ests as 'the Give-Me Boys,' Now we're going to show them
what we can do for ourselves. Our plan is that every vet
eran help every other veteran. It makes no difference
whether it's with advice, by channelling business to him,
or whether it's with hard cash."
Some 200 Detroit oorators of small businesses, from
automobile agencies to photograph studios and butcher
shops, Inst June contributed enough money to start a re
volving fund. The federal government granted permis
sion to the non-profit group to loan money at low interest
rates to veterans who needed it in operating newly-established
businesses. And the idea mushroomed over night.
This is a well worthwhile effort. Too many veterans
have been too willing to accept a dole in some form or
another and the free scholarships and other forms of as
sistance, even pensions, have militated against develop
ment of personal initiative and in many instances have
led to a wnste of precious time.
After all success in whatever business or professional
course is followed, rests with the individual and no college
can supply the needed essentials for success and develop
ment that the school of hard knocks does. Sooner or
later everyone must be "on his own" and the earlier the
tart the bettei.
First You See ItThen You Don't
Birmingham, Ala. (U Joseph Rrvll, a Negro, told police
today that he sold a nlrkel-plated revolver to an unidentified
Negro for $25 last night.
Bevll said tha Negro then turned tha gun on him and took
kark tha 12S.
Cut by Knife by Cow's Kick
Taconta Uft Jeu Benn, SI, was treated at a loeal hospital
for a knife wound received as the result of his cow's kirk.
Ha told doctors tha cow kicked out, striking a knlfa which
Hipped Into tha air and struck his upper arm.
Soaking a Neighbor Costs $25
Spokane, Wash. (U.RVMr. Mary T. Fay was fined ItS for
Making her neighbor, Mrs. Sarah Burns, with a garden hose.
The victim testified that tha squirting came alter an argu
ment over the Kay shrubbery which Mrs. Burns aald dropped
t kit bar yard.
also the other i.
way around. It
would seem to
be an occasion
that would
stump the day
light savers and
re q u i r e some
heavy mathema
tics to demon
strate where
they could save
an hour either
J. " , '?. sional Medal of Honor on Hen
?dIa .t,,u' " drix after he had smashed a
in addition to government so- German machine.gun nest ,,
cial security. glehanded, killing seven enemy
,L . , ,. , , soldiers and capturing 13 others.
What a so worries the social The lde. ha(?n.t f
,eCwr;,ty.JUnn.er? th'i: a te" is first meeting, and when
Will the steel worker, and he saw Hendrix the iecond time,
other well - organized labor he recalIed.
groups push as hard for higher A those wh
2taJ5f"h rated w y 'hat day was a
kj v-y boy in a wheel chair who had
Senu your "Udds questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of tha Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
of gathering up the funds around
the building and also to attend
a meeting. Judd is away just
now so the letter will be laid
away to determine on his return
who it's meant for, what with
him being county clerk.
British Workers to Decide
Experiment With Pound
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(i4t Portlio Affair Anit)
is. -:i 1 1 At l I ... Ua Vnirlnnit
il... uom ffrtm h m- J vnau wiiu uau vvnen me punaiis nave gov uiruugn r-"" "'0'o,iu
XlLr ?? inth1 lost both hi ,egs in battle- nl 8ing to fare with he? devalued pound sterling, the matter
p J Z I. ". " .. r. never forget something he said, likelv will be settled bv the British workingman and his missus
uu oecrewry ma o. arcy remarked that h harf ht jlu - :rt..A.:rt th.ir l..h whirh i.
warned the house committee on
one life, but that he was still
the local pub.
The success.
Dan UpJohH
Fun While It Lasted
Woodburn, Ore. U.B) A short
short story written on a piece of
ways and mean, in 1846 that rea(Jy ,0'give u fQr hjj c(j
. ...u i v. iruman questioned aergeant nr failure of
Kiciiritv. 'thpn labor oreaniza- tt , - ? or ianure ui
------ , nenanx cioseiy aDout nis 10UU- iu: Harino v
tions of the type of the United f t i,ln- , ,, . . "is aaring ex
Mine Workers will attempt to l0.0' , e.arth .wne" h, periment in de
.-cure securitv for their workers K"aVA"le " lo open " r0" valuation of the
7 7, penning, ua.
in some other manner. .., Unnw thtk . T . mn.
me from death," related the pa
i -tiH . j r is t, cuiieuuy was repurieu luuay uy
id .i ipii ".- Leonard Hewitt, assistant mana-
uon- ger of the Woodburn branch of
j .. . , the First National bank of Port-
Incid e n t a 1 1 y , maybe we'll land. Hewitt said he came across
take some time off this p.m., and a dollar bill at the bank. In the
hunt around to see if we can lo- upper left hand corner of the
cale the last rose of summer. "faee" side was P"nted in mall
letters: "The last of a million
Also Spring Is Hera SDent on slow horse" and fast
. . ., women.
Lebanon Mrs. Albert Carlson
of 313 Main street is displaying The Ministerial association at
a bouquet of bright red crab ap- Astoria has passed resolutions
pies and autumn foliage, togeth- asking that hereafter wedding
er with sprays of blossoms, all parties be more sedate. They
picked from the ornamental crab condemn the practice of "speed
apple tree in her yard. Blooms ln
of this species are traditionally suit of automobiles, which gen
one of the first to be seen in erally climaxes a wedding par-,DrmB-
ty," and the chief of police had
complained that wild driving af-
Some sort of confusion also ter weddings was becoming a
existent at the courthouse. A let- dangerous practice. But it seems
ter was received there today there should be some way to
from George Alexander of the have a last bit of fun before tak-
community chest addressed to ing on the final yoke. Maybe
"Harlan Judd, county judge." It they could get married at the
seems George wants whoever he fair grounds and race around the
wrote the letter to to take charge track.
River Sent Back to His Door
Seattle. U.Funeral director Cal Butterworth has thank
ed the King county board of commissioners for "sending tha
river back to my door."
Road crews dynamited a log jam which had diverted the
Tolt river from flowing past the front of his new house,
built with an eye to the view of tha river.
WAR EFFECTS STILL FELT
Blood Donors Still Needed
To Keep Wounded Alive
By JAMES W. HART
Pittsburgh U. The need for civilian blood Is as great or
greater today than at any time during the war.
Thousands of men are being kept alive in veterans' hospitals
by periodic transfusions. If they could not get a new supply of
blood every so often, they would die.
This revelation comes from
Aspinwall Veterans hospital, the Aspinwall authorities esti
largest in Western Pennsylvan- mate that nearly 10.000 pints of
ia. civilian blood have been poured
Battle wounds have been heal- into the veins of veterans at that
ed for many of the men in these hospital alone during the last
hospitals, but the need for blood three years,
goes on. Some of our ex-Gl's are Despite this enormous con
now fighting leukemia, cancer, sumption, and the ever-incrcas-blecding
ulcers and the after- inK nfed for more blood, there
effects of dangerous surgery, have been times when there were
Add this to the tremendous need not enough donors to keep ths
for emergency operations, and reserve supply at a safe level,
you come up with a lot of blood . .
that just isn't there. ... . , jj .
, , , One official added it up by
, . , . . , , saying, "Now that the war is
Th. use of blood In surgical ,e seem , f , ,hat
operations, and in fighting many ,he men ,re ,m , ,he h
diseases formerly believed to be The e h d
Incurable, has grown beyond ex- thinRJ ,hat you cmM ,ay bout
pectatlon. One doctor said that p,opi. who give their blood. The
a minimum of ten pints of blood on, troubl, l,. there aren't
Is needed for each lung opera- tnough giving...
tlon. Six pints is tha minimum ,
for abdominal surgery. Technicians, who tap a donor s
Leukemia victims and veter- veins and match the blood with
ans with bleeding ulcers put the hat of a patient, observe that
biggest dent in blood reserves, a great number of the donors are
The former use an average of SO "regulars'' who give a pint at
pints of blood a year. Recently, certain Intervals,
an ex-Gl with bleeding ulcers A doctor at the Aspinwall in-
was fed 210 pints of blood in stitution said. "Actually, for
four weeks seven and a half some, it would do their system
pints a day but he lived. good to lost soma blood."
A Few Thousand Miles Off
Los Angeles (41 "Battalion Chief Eleven," droned the fir
department dispatcher over tha short wave radio. "Fir re
ported at 26JI I.ak View terrace."
Battalion Chief Eelven returned th call a few minutes
later.
"There's no such address," he said angrily.
"You mean to tell me I don't know my Los Angeles?" th
dispatcher snapped back.
Titer was a pause. Th party en th other end chuckled.
"You may know Los Angelea, but this Is Cleveland. Ohio."
Sure enough. It was. A trick of th atmosphrr had tangled
up the two fir departments. They operat on th same wav
Ungth,
'The point that I am making
is just a simple one," continued
Carey, "that this program pre
sented by John L. Lewis to the scrcamed
operators is a type oi program
that we say should be adminis
tered by the federal govern
ment.'
national curren
cy rests on the
til r H v chnnl-
ratrooper. "When I was about ders of the folk
who run ma
500 feet from the ground. I
to him for help. Then -hin.. r rfi
i graoDea my leel so that I
would strike the earth in a V-
shape. When I hit the ground
in mines or per
form the hun
dred and one
i IA
OcWItl aUekmtl
valuation of th pound to re
sult in a rise in the cost of Eng
land's living how much no
body can forsee.
If there is an increase, it will
be because essential supplies
purchased from America will
cost more in pounds, shillings
and pence. This cost will be re
flected in the price of things
sold over the counter in England.
Already the price of bread is to
be raised 3 cents a loaf and th
eni. i roned i wa .hal..n ., - u'cu u," be raised 3 cents a loaf and th
Carey's prediction was right. rJ, , I1' ' . . !? "p,.f.r other tasks which entitles them average Briton eats a lot of it.
Lewis put across his welfare rv ' " to the ranks of "workers." Now ,h Brilish worlt.r ha
I 1. ...... 1. ; , vm... .-..cnAnH- - I hPV fan malrA nr hraalr th.
Now the British worker has
IUI1U IHUUKII lis iiuw auayciiu- i.Tk. iiL, 4U. j . -" .u-s un .I,,,,.!!.. ,:
ed-thus putting the miners in by acc dent, "he added iS-' f 'U? 'impl expedi- of living sFnce war days, and hi.
a favored position over other f.ntIv'..It wa, rri., wiII ' nT t of turning thumbs up or rtom.ch full of that.
..... ..... - iiiminff tnpm ti.n
be saved.
"I'm as sure of that as you
are, son," said the president.
(Copyright 1049)
workers.
Naturally the steel workers
didn't want to be outdone by the
miners. And millions of other
oldsters who don't belong to un
ions don't want to be outdone riffr u iiur m ,,, t , r-.
either. It would have been bet- POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
ter if congress had handled the
entire problem in the first place.
The point is this:
The experts expect th de-
TITO'S COMMUNISM
When a Yugoslav diplomat
was transferred from Washing
ton back to Belgrade, his wife
confided to a Washington neigh
bor: "I'm going to have to buy a
whole new wardrobe."
"But why?" asked the neigh
bor. "Your things are lovely."
"That's lust it." was the reply.
"If I should wear these clothes that wasn't thef
in Belgrade, all my friends intent,
would say I had gone capitalist. "We outfitted
I have to buy some very plain a girl like Cin-
things." derella on one
Then, in a still deeper tone of P r o gram a
regret, the Yugoslav lady added: kind of femin-
"Another thing is I won't see ine Horatio Al-
much of the children any more, ger touch. That
When we go back, they'll have was just one
to be put in a state school and stunt But the
we'll have them only at night."
Truth-or-Consequence Man'
Called Barnum of Airways
He was calling for higher
wages even before the devalua
tion of the pound, and an in
crease in costs might be expect
ed to result in fresh demands
for more pay. That could mean
strikes which would curtail th
all-essential production.
says it's
By HAL BOYLE
New York (At Radio's "truth-or-consequence man'
true he pioneered the giveaway program.
But Ralph Edwards denies he's responsible for the present con
sequences. "I originated the giveaway program in 1U40, alas and alack,"
ne said, "Dutir
give-away start
ed from that.
m m '"'ait
Sir Stafford Cripps, chancel
lor of the exchequer, has made
it clear that the government in
tends to hold down wages
whether the cost of living in
creases or not.
British newspaper editorials
insist that there must be no de
mands for higher wage to
counter-balance any increase in
egic veteran, Sportswriter " c"51 m living, iney agi-e
Grantlanri Rice .v.Rovr n.r. that tnis would nullify th cut
ney Ross, war hero Audi Mur- in the prices of British exports
phy. cuts which devaluation of th
j . , ,. , pound seeks to secure.
The producer got the scare of ., . , ...
his life when Murphy, surprised So B"tam s Socialist govern
to be confronted by his old ser- ment in t'ght spot, in having
i geant in the midst of the pro- ,nu" 10 n0,a oul me "Keiinooa
gram, stuttered happily: of further tightening of belt.
Why, you dirty old . . . ser- government nas i-
geant!" sued Its edict: Further austerity
and no Increase in wages.
lp.
CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES
Miffed at Truman CIO Pres
ident Philip Murray and his top
aides are not saying so pubhey
) Uepefrdabfe
r MffingSerrice
t ACROff TOWN OI ,
ACIOH TMI NATION M
FHwardl1 nwn r,rpor rtnulA a,tMAaa - -.a... a.i.
"Other programs picked up ,erve as , model for one o( hi, . , with labor th k
the technique and started giving dramas. He came here from er should refuse to accept this
gl,ls- California to crash big time ra- decision, and should curtail
"Our giveaways were for dio, but found the executives production bv strikina for hieh-
but they feel that President charitable purposes. But others were pretty satisfied with the er wages, the government's bid
Truman has fumbled the ball in took the Suts of our Idea with- talent they had. for relief through devaluation
averting a steel strike. out lts heart. It turned out to He quickly ran through his would go down the drain.
The CIO thought it had Tru- be 8 Kreedy thing without any smaii savings and was sleeping .
man primed to give U.S. Steel -""iy K:i3. now me in tne act0rs' church and eating
a big tongue-lashing last week whole business Is on its knees, penny soup at a depression res
for refusing to negotiate on the They are Killing themselves. taurant when he got his chance
basis of the president's own fact- to compete n an audition for
finding board on steel. Instead, And Edwards said that, unless announcrs. Edwards won
Truman was meek, mild, and the giveaways returned to their holding one hand over a hole
condemned nobody despite the original pattern, he would just in his sleeve as he talked into
fact that the steel workers ac- as soon see the FCC ruling ban- the microphone,
cepted the principle of the re- ning them upheld by the federal In a short time he was mak
port while the company has re- courts. ing $1,100 a week announcing
jected it. The red-haired 36-year-old 45 programs. But he found
Deal With Bevin Here is the producer feels the ruling doesn't this too much for a man with
inside story on an agreement affect his own two NBC net- only one set of vocal cords,
between Secretary Acheson and work shows "Truth or Conse- "I got so I was seeing box tops
Foreign Minister Bovin that was quences," and "This Is Your in front of my eyes," he said,
kept out of the official commu- Life." "That's why I started looking
nique. The first program, a variation for a program of my own."
Britain is going to get an ex- ot an old-fashioned parlor game, "After I got it, I really found
tra Marshall plan allotment for won him the nickname of "The out what work was."
expanding the production of Barnum of the Airways" for its He doubts if competitors will
manganese in her African terri- zany stunts. Edwards guessed be able to imitate his "This Is
tory of northern Rhodesia. The rightly that for a prize Your Life" show,
deal is to counteract a Russian America was full of people will- "It takes a staff of 20 to pro
squeeze when they stopped ship- ing to try to fulfill any screw- due it," he said, "and th costs
ping manganese to the United ball assignment. run up to $11,000 a week."
States last March because they Ten months ago he thought up Edwards avoids night clubs,
thought it was being stockpiled his second show, a half-hour spends his spare time at his west
for war against Russia. program which capsules the life coast home. He is married.
Senators Play Hookey So story of some unknown or fam- "I took the consequences
many senators have strayed off ous American. Among those three children," he laughed,
on vacations that leaders are dramatized hav been a para- "And I'm happy about that."
having trouble rounding up
votes on critical issues. GOP
Leader Kenneth Wherry sent
frantic telegrams to all absent
republicans to hurry back for
the vote on reciprocal trade.
GOP leaders moan that eight ab
sent republicans could have
changed the final vote which
gave the president a free hand to
cut tariffs.
Japan Gets Respectable
General MacArthur has cabled
the state department urging that
Japan be included as a charter
member in the proposed Far
Eastern defense alliance. Mae
Arthur believes that without Ja
pan's manpower and Industrial
resources, any anti-communist
alliance In the Far East is doom
ed to failure. So he's asked the
slat department to try and
Whathu you'r movie- fat towm
er to a distant city, w offer th
ft naat in worry-fra moving serr
ic. Our local stong and mov
ing facilities ara uncUd. And
m rapmanUtiTs for Allied
V Line in can plae at your
disposal tha know -bow of th
werld'a UffMt long-distant
snovBig riauacuM. AUM's
tpart pack, ka action and
dnv.
No More Drinks for Dogs
Prestwirh, England tX With bloodshot eyes and trembling
paws, the drinking dogs of Prestwlch scuttled Into their fa
vorite saloons today. They got a shock. Their drinks ar eat
off.
Dr. C. H. T. Wade, the city health officer, said the wave of
tippling by dogs at the local pubs has got to stop.
"They have dirty habits," he said, "and most pubs only
rinse th glasses."
Alderman A. L. Williams of the health committee agreed.
"We don't say our dogs are drunkards," he told a reporter,
"hut too many of them are drinking beer from the same glassea
used by other patrons."
Bernard Hadfield. proprietor of the Ostrich, said most of th
drinking dogs h knew were moderate about It half a pint or
so a night. But he said he had seen at least on who'd had
drop loo much.
".Mind you." said Hadfield. "he may hav been new to It,
but h certainly staggered home."
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Liberty Btlmoat Ph. Mill
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