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4 Salem, Ore., Saturday, October 29, 1949
The Nation's Highway Problem
The November issue of the magazine Fortune contains
a comprehensive survey of the nation's highway system
which discloses that much of the most important mileagi
Is now wearing out all at once, that putting the roads back
in shape will cost some $30 billion to $60 billion over the
next 10 or 20 years, but the only alternative is a "crush
ingly costly obsolete system."
This year the United States is spending a record-breaking
$1.7 billion in new highways, and thereby bringing
its road network up to 1933 requirements. But to bring
the system up-to-date, road building must run well beyond
that amount for years to come. But where is the money
coming from?
This year, Fortune explains, total receipts are running about
$3.5 billion from state and federal gasoline taxes, registration
fees, and excise taxes on new cars, parts and tires. Expendi
tures on roads and streets will come to about $3.2 billion of
which only ibeut $1.7 billion will go for new construction, $1.5
billion for maintenance and administration. "To cover the
greatly expanded construction program present traffic requires,
the U.S. is certainly going to see more toll highways; gasoline
taxes must inevitably go higher in many states."
Some $35 billion have been invested in our present sys-
BY BECK
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Steel Companies Are Divided
Over Footing Pension Plans
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Here are some of the things that are taking placo
backstage in the steel strike discussions:
1. Inside the steel companies The major companies are di
vided regarding the contributory of non-contributory pension
plan. Inland Steel already has good pension plan, while Jones
and Laughlin,
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
dercover campaign against us
ually gentle Gen. Omar Brad
ley. They enlisted the powerful
voice of Walter Winchell, long
time naval reserve officer, in a
campaign against Bradley. Win
cheU did his best for the navy
during the war, got kicked
around for his pains, but Is still
loyal.
Also it was considered no ac
cident that Congressman John
McCormack of Boston unloosed
an out-of-the-blue blast at Gen
eral Bradley. The Boston navy
yard is about to feel the effect
their contributions 01 Secretary Johnson s economy
which entails com- move, and some of McCormack's
constituents will lose their Jobs.
Drew htrin
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Why Belong to a Church?
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector. St Paul'a Epueopfcl Cbureb
A friend of mine had often mentioned that he wanted to be
come a member of the church. But not once did I ever see him
in church.
So the last time he talked about it, I asked him why, if he
wanted to become a member of the church, he didn't attend church
occasionally.
together with
Bethlehem, fav
or a pension
plan whereby
labor does not
contribute; for
the following
reasons:
Only 10
cent of
wo r k e r s con
tinue in their
employ until
they reach the age of 65. When
they leave before that age under
a worker-contribution plan.
they take
with them,
plicated bookkeeping. But when
they do not contribute, the
amount set aside for them by I s?
company stays in the fund and
mounts up. Thus the company,
over the years, contributes less
and less money.
Flatly opposed to Bethlehem,
Jones and Laughlin, 'and Inland,
is the giant of the industry, U.S.
While most authors
produce tveir best works
between the ages of ao
mo 44,, few poets
accomplish much after 55.
OftYllN 11,000 AMERICANS
CAN NAME EVERY STATE CAPITAlr
CLWM4 A GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
(mam, iurir,aU!amfreM,mP(UiHC
QUIZ SHOW I
3
HIGH SCHOOL STIIDEKTre-OMj
ARE 1 IN 8 VOULL BE KILLED BY
AN AUTOMOBILE BEFORE "YOUfeE
65
3X9
aS
Ce7
UNDER THE DOME
Michigan's congressman Les
inski, the Detroit democrat who
staged a sitdown strike against
the aid-to-education bill, is al
ready in for re-election trouble.
Walter McNary, a Wyandotte,
Mich., shoe retailer, will run
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Too Old-and Sophisticated
At 1 2 Years, So She's Retired
He seemed very much sur
prised. "It would
be a little ir
regular, would
n't it?" ha ask-
tem of streets and roads, and Fortune thus explains what ed. Before I
l,..l,n,.nNi,.r. culd answer.
"The normal life of a first-class highway surface is regarded
as 20 to 30 years. Much of the most important mileage in the
U.S. system war laid down in the twenties, and much of that
Is now wearing out all at once.
"After 1931, spending on the highways fell off abruptly.
(Except for a period of make-work road-building in the mid
thirties, comparatively little was spent on the roads until 1947).
"Meantime, use of the highways expanded vastly. Since
1930 the number of vehicles on the road has increased by nearly
65 percent. (Trucking traffic has increased still more steeply;
even since the war, trucking ton-mileage has almost doubled).
"Cruising speeds of the lowest-priced cars have been in
creased from 45 or 50 m.p.h. to 65 or 70. The road, by and larnc,
has never caught up with the extra power that Detroit built
into the car during the highly competitive years of the depres
sion." In modernizing' our highways, engineers are not asking
for a network of super-highways all over the country. The
Bureau of Public roads proposes some 11,000 miles of di
vided four-lane highways, mostly near or in major cities.
Over the other 27,000 miles of the system, traffic does not
warrant more than two good lanes. This means the re-
he continued, "I
thought joining
a church was
something like
joining a lodge.
You cannot at
tend a lotl'ic un
til you have a. aeatr swin
Joined it."
So I found out that this man
had stayed away from church
because he thought one had to
belong before he could attend
the services.
I know of no body of Christ
ians that requires the show
ing of a membership card or
the whispering of a password 3S
a requirement of entrance to any
of Its services.
While participation in certain
sacraments is reserved for com
municants, a hearty welcome is
extended to all to be present at
of worship. Becoming a member
of the church will then be ac
complished in accordance with
the requiremants of that church.
If one without membership
may attend the services and be
building and enlargement of existing roads to bring visi- any and all services. The desire
bllity essential for safe passage, curvatures, gradients, L7 s do theTg'ooT
win wiuuib, ran crussingB aiiu unuge capacity up io iramc
requirements.
Thig will mean the conversion of a lot of two-lane mile
Age into four lanes, and the relocation of short segments;
widening of lanes from the old 9-foot standard to 11 and
12 feet; the widening of shoulders, and providing more
turning out places and resurfacing of long distances. None
of these operations should be confused with maintenance,
that is surface patching, shoulder stabilization, scraping,
oiling and rolling of unpaved roads, etc., which now cost
(1 billion a year.
Fortune concludes: "One-seventh of U.S. business lives off the
highway, and all U.S. business sells to that seventh. Road con
ditions enter into all business costs through their effect on
freight charges, and mobility of labor and customers. The bill
lor good roads will run into billions but they will be rela
tively cheap billions, considering what is at stake."
uplifted and inspired by them,
why should it be important to
become a member?
A foreigner may live in the
United States for a considerable
time without becoming a citi
zen. But if he loves the country,
he will eventually want to iden
tify himself with it, and assume
responsibility as well as enjoy
privileges. Apart from the fact
that, for instance, Baptism
makes one a member of some
thing far beyond and above a lo
cal and visible organization, be
coming a member of a church
lends strength to the group.
The cables on the Golden Gate
bridge would be useless if the
individual strands in their com
position were each acting alone,
but bound together as they are
in great cables, not only is the
bridge kept safe under all stress
es and strains, but the little
strands themselves are saved
from destruction.
All people in a community,
whether members of a church or
not, should attend services of
worship. It would not do them
any harm, but is almost sure to
Steel, which sets the competitive against him In the primary. Mc-
pace. Nary stands strong with labor.
Despite all arguments, U.S. Despite the need for economy
Steel has held out against a and the full coverage given the
company - contributed pension armed services row by the press
plan chiefly as a matter of associations, the navy insisted on
principle. It claims that labor sending small newspapers volu-
should not get something for minous verbatim transcripts of
nothing, that labor should con- every word the admirals said
tribute at least a small part of about the air force .... yet the
the pension. public relations offices of army,
Possibly this view is influenc- navy and air forces are supposed
In the meantime, remember.
the clergy will be delighted to
be given the opportunity to wel
come you to the church services
without a membership card or a
password.
Peeping Toms Still Bother Godiva
Coventry, Eng. W) They've had to put a fence around
Lady Godiva's statue. It's to keep the Peeping Toms away.
A statue showing the lady clad only in her tresses and sit
ting side saddle on a horse, was unveiled last Saturday by
Mrs. Lewis Douglas, wife of the I1. S. ambassador.
Almost at once crowds wanting a closer look began tramp
ling over the surrounding turf.
City officials put up a three foot high barricade yesterday
to save the grass.
Godiva rode forth in the nude, legend says, some 900 years
ago to shame her husband, the lord of the town, into giving
tax relief to the people. The townspeople went indoors to
let the laily pass unseen. But one man looked and was struck
blind. Ills errant ways gave birth to the term Peeping Tom.
"The statue is proving an unexpected attraction," said
one city official.
Drainage and Sewage Programs for the City
Salem's drainage problem may be licked next year for
Borne time to come. The word "may" is used advisedly,
since many factors will determine whether or not the city
can go ahead with plans aimed at protecting sections from SIPS FOR SUPPER
water overflow.
Mayor Elfstrom has hinted at a program that will put Toiichv FOTmerS
improvements, such AS rirAinnirp And pwiiirp nn n idnnnprl '
year-by-year development basis. This type of appronch
is tho only logical one to meet the problem which faces
Salem. Oregon's capital has put off, or been forced to
put off, for one reason or another, steps to correct the
drainage and sewage situation. A sewage disposal plant,
for instance, was earmarked years ago with federal funds,
but the war enme along and killed the project.
ed by the fact that directors of
U.S. Steel include heads of oti f r
companies Walter Gifford, of
American Tel. and Tel.; Sewell
Avery, of Montgomery Ward
and U.S. Gypsum; James Black,
of Pacific Gas and Electric
which might be affected by any
pension precedent set for the
steel Industry.
2. Inside the White House
Presidential advisers have dis
cussed with Truman the idea of
invoking the Taft-Hartley act,
but he is opposed for this reas
on: The United Steel Workers al
ready have suspended a strike
for 77 days at his request prac
tivally the equivalent to the 80
day suspension possible under
the Taft-Hartley act. If the pres
ident now invoked the T-H act,
it is feared labor might refuse
to obey the injunction. And if
half a million men refused to
obey their government, the na
tion would face not only a
breakdown of democracy, but
reverberating ammunition
would be handed to Moscow for
use in every country in the
world.
Furthermore, the president's
fact-finding board's recommen
dations have been accepted by
the union, though rejected by
management. That is why other
White House friends, including
Mayor David Lawrence of Pitts
burg, Jack Arvey of Chicago and
Chairman Boyle of the demo
cratic national committee have
been urging Truman to put the
bee squarely on the steel com
panies. Note 1 Phil Murray, testify
ing before the president's fact
finding board, invited the steel
executives to appear before con
gress with him and urge passage
of a better old-age-pension bill.
They refused. Despite this, if
congress had remained in ses
sion and tackled the entire prob
lem of old-age pensions for all
old people, not merely those
who belong to unions, a pattern
Jury." On the program five ex
perts from four to twelve years
hear the problems of other child
ren and suggest how to solve
them
to be consolidated.
Newsman Burnet Hershey has
been studying Truman's health,
comes up with the inside story of
how he keeps fit in Look mag
azine this week.
There is an ironic twist in the
New York senate race between
John Foster Dulles and ex-Governor
Herbert Lehman. What
most people don't know is that
Dulles' law firm, Sullivan and
Cromwell, have been the law-
LaPI f n .- T oilman D nttA fn.
many years. Usually, the lawyer P0'"' where, th,f
v,i hi. n problems don't
Tito will pay off the United
States for helping Yugoslavia
win a seat on the security coun
cil by a Yugoslav peace treaty
with the royalist Greek govern
ment. (Copyrliht mi)
By HAL BOYLE
New York. WT After giving the best years of her life to radio,
Peggy Bruder has to give up her microphone Job because of
old age.
"I don't feel too old to go on, but I guess they know best," she
said mournfully. ' "
Peggy is 12 temporarily forced retirement
"An old woman," she said. "I For a child trying to be clever
realize that." is rarely as funny as a child who
For three years Peggy has is spontaneous. Or as Jack Bar
been a star panelist on WOR's ry, program moderator, put it;
network program, "Juvenile "We depend for laughs and
pace on me uii-uic-tuii aiiswcu
What those five-year-olds ina broadcast.
of the kids. At 12 a child begins
to get a little sophisticated."
Sunday Peggy will make her
you wouldn't be-I
lleve, said Peg
gy, a blue-eyed
girl with long
blonde curls.
"It gets to the
seem serious
only comical.
We try to make
the audience
laugh if we can
think of a clever answer."
And that is the key to
I .-.'.jWik.
Bsl Burto
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
See Signs of Spiritual
Revival in Many Lands
By D.WITT MacKENZIE
UAt PoreliD AffAlrj Analyst) -
Russia soldiers at Helmstedt, in the Soviet occupied zone of
Germany, refused to let a truckload of Bibles proceed to Berlin.
"That's propaganda material," explained the Red officer in
charge.
And, of course, he was quite right about the "propaganda"
angle. The Bi
ble la the great
est piece of pro
motion ever de
veloped. That is pre
cisely why the
who are
battling reli
gion as the
dope of the
masses, are un
and
f r i g h t e n i ng
poultry. Two in-
Th other asnert tn the problem hna hppn that uteris stances reported
.... . . . ... . . . . . Inst week Inld of
wnicn nave been taken in tne past nave not been adequate fnrrmvjVrs 1Par. SV-fiy
in view of the tremendous growth here. Three years ago ing bullets whiz- I
BY DON UPJOHN
A column in the current issue of the Silverton Appeal-Tribune
reports that "many rural residents are finding it increasingly dif
ficult to maintain a complacent attitude during the hunting sea
son. Hunters with dogs in numerous instances are reportedly
tramping over private property without permission, stampeding
lives lock
xious t o pre-
vent distribution of the world's
most widely read volume. Hit
lerian nazism maintained the
same attitude.
thp Piitan Af f U rl
who belong to unions, a pattern , .
might have been worked out for "''""'j1 wa' "w-
the nation.
After that sne has nothing to
look forward to but adolescence,
high school, college, an acting
career, matrimony, motherhood
and children, middle age, grand
motherhood, some more old age
and then the final curtain.
That's all there is left when
you're already 12.
Miss Bruder, who is a star
student in the 8th grade, isn't
too dismayed at the road ahead.
i ' r ,! ; n i,n- U ,nn
derful to me," she said, just to
prove she held no hard feelings
her because the show must now go
on without her. "It's taught me
to face an audience and to ad
lib. I no longer have stage fright.
"Now I want to go on and be
a dramatic actress. I love it,
and I've been studying for it. I ,
think I'd rather be in the movieta
every girl looks forward tof
that. But right now I believe '
television Is the right thing to
be in.
"Sometimes I do my home
work watching television."
Her mother said, "Dear, we
have to take life as it comes."
"Yes," said Peggy, smoothing
her green frock, "but I know
planation of why half a dozen what I want. My heart is set on
religious books had climbed to being an actress. I'll just settle
the top of the non-fiction best- down and be a wife" she look
selling lists in the United States, ed despondent at that dreary
William R. Barbour, presi- thought "if I can't be an act
dent of the Fleming H. Revell ress."
company, book publishers since
1870, asked experts in the field
to answer the query.
The consensus was that this
call for religious books indicated
a large scale "return to religion"
in the United States.
"People are taking religious
thinking and the whole concept
of religion a little more serious
ly these days," said C. D. Jones
of the Albin & Don-Cokesbury
Press.
She won't face the future ex
actly penniless.
"I've been getting a $50 gov
ernment bond each week," she
said. "I put them all in the bank.
I've got a pretty big bank ac
count." And then she said how much
she'd miss the excitement of her
radio job.
It's awful to be old and soph
isticated all at once.
some drainage stops were taken in north Salem. A com
parison of that section of the city three years ago and to
day gives an idea of how out-of-date three-year-old plans
can be in the face of rnpid expansion.
So the only logical way to approach the problem is the
way the city manager and mayor have outlined. That
administration in facing problems like airport development and the hunters wouldn't have to
and the others which call for long-range programs.
aides could find the key. At
length the janitor brought lad
ders to let the wedding party
climb over the partition. As the
bride descended the ladder a
chorus of courthouse workers
sang, "Here Comes the Bride."
the well-
a group of
"Frosty" Olson,
known florist, has
little plaster figures in his Court
street window, each wearing a
Willamette sweater and probab
zing over head
while at work
gathering w a 1
nuts and filberts
in their or
chards." This
Hiffirii!tv miltht
hp saiisfnrtorilv adjusted if the placed there In honor of home-
takes a long-range view of the drainage and sewage pro!)- fanners would he considerate coming at the grand old school,
lems. The sensible procedures would seem to be a year- ""' 'e their vacation, ..'J,.
by-year program with tentative allocation of possible hlintjn(, scason. That way they Players they should be able to
funds. That procedure has been followed by the new city would keep from getting shot ,CRre ,hp competition off the
iii-iu wiwimii even naving io
fuss around about not tramping
nvrr onrHrns nr shnotinff the
If the drainage program is to be successful, a special poultry. No doubt if the farm
bond issue for it will have to be submitted to the voters in ers would agree to such a plan
the May election to provide adequate finances. Ry then, ".r'io tn'ke"
the interceptor sewer should he completed. The line will out ,rom hunting to do the
empty into the river until the sewage disposal plant is chores and everybody would
built. Present plans call for the sewage disposal plant to hBve h'n-cxceptthe livestock,
be constructed as soon as the interceptor sewer line is Love and Locksmiths Again
Albuquerque, m M. w wai
ter B. Rogers and his bride-to
Note 2 Though U.S. Steel re
fused to go for noncontributory
pensions now, it was the same
U.S. Steel company which gave
a noncontributory welfare fund
to John L. Lewis and the coal
miners in 1947. This precedent
given to Lewis sets a goal which
Phil Murray and other union
leaders now have to equal.
PENTAGON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ironic twist of fate: The navy
is now bitter at Adm. Louis Den
field even though he went all
out for them before congress.
Other admirals felt his blast was
too late, that he had played foot
ing orders, and presumably his
own conscience as well, if he is
a loyal communist.
Still I have a notion he was
wasting his energy. I don't be
lieve you can kill religiou that
way any more than old King Ca
nute could make the tide recede
at his command.
Pretty Surroundings for Eating
Philadelphia (P) A Philadelphia restaurant has removed its
suggestion box for customers after a two-day trial.
The reason:
Of 35 notes deposited In the box the first day, 34 suggested
prettier waitresses. On the second day, 38 of 40 made the
same recommendation.
Not one suggestion mentioned the food being served.
As a matter of fact, religion (
Is doing all right for Itself.
There are many signs of mor
al and spiritual revival
ious parts of our war-:
world. This column called
indicatio'hatreligtous reviva! LlYGS L'lfQ Of Q COflf eflf G( COW
may be boiling up in England.
There is a widesDread feelina Pullman, Wash., Oct. 29 IIP) Don't talk about goldfish to Peep-
sie with the army and air force in Britain that the country won't hole Bossie, a local cow with built-in video. Compared with her,
NO SECLUSION FOR HER
idc,S Bossie, With Built-in Television
completed. Funds have already been provided, in a re
cent election, for the plant itself.
So indications at this time point toward a big forward
Ktep next year in meeting the aggravating and long-standing
drainage and sewage problem in the city.
Literature Tricked by Fate
Wctasklwln, Alt., Orl. 29 J( The hoard of trade apolo
gised today that literature It prepa'ed In advance for use
during fir prevention week was lost In a fire.
make a kickoff.
It's the Climate Again
Monmouth Harvey Young
has a peach tree which harvests
its fruit In late October. He
picked seven boxes from the tree
this year, completing the work
Monday. Some of them still are
a bit green. Asked what the
name of the variety it is. he said
It Is a seedling. Twelve years
ago he dug a pit In which to
be bought their marriage license deposit peach pits and like ref-
yesterday afternoon and asked use. From this pit sprang the
justice of Peace Oscar Walton peach plant which, now a tree,
to marry them at once. Walton produced the seven boxes this
led them and the witnesses into year. At that, he says he pulled
Countv Clerk Ramona Mon- off many in the late summer
fish in a bowl live a life of seclusion.
For two years people have been snooping through a hole in
her stomach to see what goes on Inside a cow. Only In the winter
does this veterinary school spec-
imen get any privacy. In the ly sheds the plug about April,
cold months she wears a rubber depending on the weather,
plug in her side to keep the Some 200 students have had a
drafts out. squint at Bossle's insides as they
Dr. Ernest C. Stone, chairman tudied the rumen of a cow,
of the department of veterinary what asses and other products
to unification. What happened had in New York with Madame physiology and pharmacology "re lormea in mis Iirsi oi me
was that Sherman was appoint- Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of t Washington State college, cut an aigestive processes 01 me
in the privacy of the joint chiefs
of staff.
Navy lobbyists pulled wires to
get Adm. William H. Blandy
appointed In Denfeld's shoes as
chief of naval operations.
Adm. Forrest Sherman isn't
overcome its economic troubles
or regain its old status as a
world power until there has
been a spiritual awakening.
There also has been a post-war
resurgence of religion in Hol
land and other continental coun-
popular with his co-admirals, tries.
Thev figure he was the first to Then recently this column re
drili a hole In the dike that led ported a conversation which I
ed by Secretary Forrestal to sit China's nationalist generalissi-
down with Gen. Lauris Norstad mo. We were discussing China's
of the air force and work out rehabilitation and she said:
unification. Result was the milk- "That can be achieved only
and-water unification bill of through moral and spiritual
197. now considerably growth."
strengthened. Brother admirals "You believe that moral and
never forgave Sherman for this spiritual change will come to
. . . . Admiral Sherman was top China?" I asked, and she re-
war planner on Admiral Ni- pnen:
the eight by three inch peephole
in the cow's rumen (stomach
four-stomach animal.
The hole is located high on
m,mw nnoi tu.'o vpam nn her side, in the hollow of the
.! stnripnu eonlrf et first- "ank behind the ribs.
toya's private office. He shut
the door to keep out noise. When
the ceremony was over. Walton
discovered the door was locked.
Neither the county clerk nor her
because they hung too heavy to
develop well. Harvey says this
October peach comes nearest to
possessing the characteristics of
th Muir.
mitz's staff in the Pacific. Is a
brilliant strategist, fought for
airplane carriers when other ad
mirals were still fighting for
battleships.
While the navy's friends in
congress are pleading for peace,
the navy is still waging an un-
"Yes. It is coming."
But we don't have to go to
Europe or Asia to find this fer
ment working. We see it right
here In the western hemisphere.
One of my AP colleagues,
John L. Springer, sought an ex-
get a
hand view of a cow's inner life.
Despite her public interior,
Bossie. age eight, is a normal,
contented cow, Dr Stone said.
She eats well, and last spring,
gave birth to a very healthy calf.
as that of any well-cared-for 111 llLZ Wilh ' TJ,"dS
She also serves In the re
search of Dr. Paul Klavano, as
sistant professor of veterinary
physiology and pharmacology,
who is studying the effects of
drugs on the rumen.
Dr. Stone admitted Bossie is
bovine, he said
When It's warm she doesn't
in her stomach. A couple of
other veterinary schools also use
this "live specimen" method of
need any cover for the cavity, teaching students about the di
but in the winter it is plugged gestive progresses of a cow, he
up to keep her warm. She usual- said.
I