Capital Journal. Salem, Ore.. Thursday, Nov. 8. 19493
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Be Discussed
Formation of a Salem chapter
of the Atlantic Union committee
will be the objective of a public
meeting called for 8 o'clock
next Monday night at the Cham
ber of Commerce. The announc
ed purpose of a group of inter
ested citizens is "further ac
quainting the public with the
Federal Union plan, and for
seeking speedy congressional ac
tion on the bill already intro
duced for this purpose when our
lawmakers reconvene in January."
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signals and gates which drop as trains approach.
Chinese Reds Open Drive
To Rule People's Thoughts
Shanghai U.R) The Chinese communists are trying to regiment
.thinking throughout the areas they have wrested from the na
tionalists.
They are organizing "learning groups" in factories, business
offices, stores, farming centers, women's clubs, schools," the armed
services, youth corps and, in
fact, everywhere but the home.
The groups are formed with
the aim of converting all Chi
nese except "capitalists, bureau
crats and reactionaries" to com
munism. Even the hated capi
talists are called into some
groups to be "educated."
The groups are dedicated to
the study of Marxism and the
writings and teachings of Mao
Tze-tung, president of the Peo
ple's Republic of China.
O f f i c e workers, especially
those in government depart
ments, are required to spend
their spare time in reading and
discussing communism.
In factories, workers gather
during lunch or rest periods to
discuss Mao's speech at the in
auguration of the new People's
Republic and other communist
dogma.
At Tsingtao, where U. S. Vice
Admiral Oscar C. Badger once
based his Western Pacific fleet,
communist political workers are
telling factory owners:
"Comrade manager, you've
got to learn the new demo
cracy." The underlying thought be
hind all the "learning groups"
was stated by Mao last July. It
was:
"We must be one-sided. We
must be either with the people's
camp or against it. There is no
third route."
Following the recent appear
ance in Salem of Clarence Streit,
author of the Federal Union
idea, a local organization com
mittee was named to further the
plan here. This committee in
cludes Guy Hickok, ' Loraine
Meusey, Dr. Henry Gunn, Steve
Anderson, W. E. Richardson,
Robert Letts Jones, Judge James
T. Brand and Laura E. Kellar.
Dr. Gunn, president of Ore
gon College of Education, Mon
mouth, will attend next Mon
day night's meeting.
Smog Worries Portland
Portland, Nov. 3 The city
smoke control commission v
ordered yesterday to start work
ing on the problem of clearing
the metropolitan area atmos
phere. Chairman J. Donald
Kroeker said he would attend
the national air pollution sym
poslum at Pasadena, Calif., Nov.
10-11 to get ideas. Smoke plus
early winter fog has created
smog conditions for several
weeks, slowing morning and
evening traffic in the city.
Sick Children Found
To Be Better Students
Boston (U.B The will to learn
Is stronger in youngsters confin
ed to sick beds than In most
healthy children.
That opinion is shared by two
former Boston school teachers,
Mrs. Helen Hannan and Mrs.
Margaret Kamp, after tutoring
some 750 Chilren's Hospital pa
tients during the past 15 years.
Seven-year-old David Spinney
of Milton is a typical hospital
student. Confined to an iron
lung 2214 hours out of every 24,
he must do all his learning orally.
TODAY'S BUSINESS MIRROR
Recapped Tires Come Back
In Style Again; Sales Up
By SAM DAWSON
New York. Nov. 3 The recapped tire poor relation in the
depressed thirties and about the only thing you could get in the
war years is back in style again. Sales this year are up m per
cent over last.
Demand for retreads started to revive last year, after the early
postwar tumble. The retread in
Four Babies Die
Of Starvation
Hanford, Cal., Nov. 3 U.B
Four babies have died of star
vation in California's fertile San
Joaquin valley during the past
month, according to testimony
before the Kings county board of
supervisors.
The infants were children of
migrant cotton pickers and farm
workers, many from the mid
west. The board called a meeting
to discuss the deaths of two of
the infants since Monday. They
heard an appalling story of "in
tolerable conditions of misery"
In the squalid tents and shacks
dotting the highways.
Officials said these conditions,
reminiscent of those described in
the novel, "Grapes of Wrath,"
prevail among the 150,000 mi
grant farm workers now harvesting-
California's cotton, veg
etables and fruits in the great
central valley.
District Attorney William
Harp demanded that Coroner J.
Larry Smith investigate me con
ditions under which the children :
died. He said he would file crim-1
inal charges against parents
found guilty of negligence.
Den Assignments
Given Cub Troop
Salem Heights The Pack
meeting of the Cub troop 19 met
at the Salem Heights communi
ty hall. Twenty-six boys present
were assigned to their Dens.
Many parents attended.
Leo Olson, Cubmaster named
the following Den Mothers, Mrs
Paul Harvey, Mrs. Clark Leth
In. Mrs. R. V. Miller and Mrs.
Harold Post of Salem Heights,
and Mrs. Roland Seeger of Lib
erty. It is thought that another
Den will be started at Liberty.
Named on the Cub Scout com
mittee were Paul Harvey, Erich
Leatsch, George Gregor, Lewis
Bartlett, Virgil Allen and Guy
Fagg as assistant cubmaster.
Den 2, with Mrs. Paul Harvey,
Den Mother, demonstrated their
Den Yell. Refreshments were
served later.
Fining Made Easy
Ogden, Utah, um Police have
a new wrinkle for collecting
parking violation fines. A com
bination meter violation-citation
envelope goes on the windshield
of the offender. The driver may
place his 50-cent fine inside the
envelope and take it to police
headquarters or mail it
dustry says that one reason for
the new popularity is that the
makers are putting salt, sawdust
or nut shells in them. And at
least one company punches little
holes in recapped tires to in
crease their sales appeal.
Motorists add that a chief
reason they are having tires re
done is that they have to watch
their personal budgets now more
than in the first flush postwar
years. They note that several
leading tire companies have just
hiked prices 3 Vi per cent on new
tires and there is talk of further
price increases before the end
of the year.
But tire makers Insist that a
leading reason for the Jump in
demand for retreads is that new
processes, materials, and methods
have made the rebuilt tire sup
erior to the one you bought ten
years ago, or even during the
wartime shortage of new tires.
The postwar retread, they say,
wears longer and holds the road
better.
Tiremen say they stumbled
upon the use of sawdust in re
treads mainly by accident. Dur
ing the war, when they were
trying to make a little rubber go
as far as possible, they mixed
in a little sawdust. As the tires
were driven, the sawdust fell
out. The pockmarked tread held
the road better. So now, B. F.
Goodrich and some others put
sawdust in its recap material.
U. a. Rubber, however, uses
rock salt for the same purpose,
As the salt or sawdust works
out of the tire, the holes that
are left- give the tire a better
grip, the companies say. They
scoff at the notion, advanced by
some drivers, that the salt melts
the ice on the road it's the hole
in the tire that counts.
General Tire and Rubber Co.,
which says it is retreading more
tires these days than at any
other time in its 34-year history
employes a new blend to two
distinct types of rubber, to get
the same porosity effect.
Goodyear plugs a tractionizing
machine. This punches tiny holes
in the recapped tread. The com
pany says this gives good trac
tion right from the start.
Goodrich has two types of re
treads. The ice-snow recapping
uses sawdust to provide the grip
on the road. The mud-snow re
capping job usee the tread itself
for the traction.
Passenger cars account for
about two-thirds of the total of
recapping but tire men say that
retreading of truck and bus tires
is now increasing.
It costs about $7.72 to recap
the common-size passenger tire.
The U. S. army ordinance has
a tire rebuild plant at Ober-Ram-stadt,
Germany, that has process
ed a half million tires since it
opened in February, 1946, at a
saving to U. S. taxpayers of $2 Vi
million a year.
American tiremen couldn't say
how the army stands on the sub
ject of salt versus sawdust.
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