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4 Salem, Ore., Thursday, Nov, 3, 1949
How Badly Off Is the Pacific Northwest?
To hear some advocates of a Columbia Valley Adminis
tration, one would think that the Pacific Northwest had
no chance f being developed except by an all-powerful
three-man CVA directorate. And the way President Tru
man acted h few months ago, the region would get no
further development unless it went along with his valley
authority plan.
The impression is given that existing federal agencies,
with private enterprise, bungle along, accomplish prac
tically nothing. A booklet has just been published which
should prove to be an eye-opener. It is aptly named, "The
Untold Story of Pacific Northwest Progress."
Despite the biased backing of the Pacific Northwest
Development Association, the booklet is a pictorial answer
to the CVA claim that the region will shrivel without an
over-all authority. It is the first time the facts on develop
ment have been presented simply for the average person
to grasp at a glance.
What does development in the region amount to now?
Already in operation are 86 major power dams in the
Columbia basin. The basin area is that included in the
proposed CVA. Notes the booklet: "So many power plants
have been built here that already each resident of the
northwest has twice as much power generating capacity
installed for him as does the average American."
Sentences sprinkled among pictures of the power proj
ects keep repeating the story: "The Columbia basin is
already the most highly electrified area in the nation . . .
The average home and farm here uses three times as
much electricity as the U.S. average."
In addition, there are 32 major irrigation dams in the
Columbia basin. Further note: "Thanks to projects al
ready completed, 3,800,000 acres are under irrigation in
the Columbia basin." Practically all of the 32 dams were
built by the bureau of reclamation. "Today 20 percent of
all irrigation in the U.S. is in the Pacific Northwest."
In addition, there are 12 major multi-purpose dams in
the Columbia basin. Built by the federal government, they
provide irrigation, navigation, power or flood control,
in planned combinations.
Is the land of the Tennessee Valley Authority, upon
which a CVA is based, better off than the Pacific North
west? The facts at the1 back of the booklet report a tell
ing "no."
The population increase in the Columbia basin has been
ten times that in the seven TVA states since 1940. The
facts favor the Pacific Northwest over TVA-land on all
these points: per capita income, average pay of farm
workers, income tax paid per capita, output of all power
plants, average wholesale rate for power, farms electrified,
average use ol electricity by homes, and average price
of electricity used in homes.
When the reader gets through with this booklet, he is '
bound to scratch his head and wonder how a triumvirate
of CVA directors could have helped him any better than
have the existing agencies, teamed with private enterprise.
The criticism that can be said of the book is that it
does not give enough emphasis on building for the future.
After all, there still are not enough power facilities. The
region needs to continue its fight for development with
out a CVA.
Russian Genocide in the Baltics
Representatives of the Baltic peoples, including the
clergy, who hae settled in the United States and are now
American citizens, have petitioned the senate for speedy
ratification of the convention for the prevention and pun
ishment of the crime of genocide. They assert that thou
sands of American families are directly affected by the
Russian conducted genocide in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia
and the Ukraine.
While the text of the United Nations genocide pact
was not as broad as it might have been, none the less
the definition of genocide includes willful destruction,
in whole or in part, of "a national, ethnical, racial or re
ligious group" and embraces such acts as: "(a) Killing
members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or
mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately
inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within
the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group
to another group."
The petition states that the pattern of genocide in Lith
uania and other Baltic states conforms to the letter of
the definition of the crime in the convention under all
five counts. It continues:
"The direct Kil.ing.s and mutilation of the clergy and Intel
lectuals of this predominantly Roman Catholic country failrd
to bring aho'it a surrender of the remainder of the nation to
barbaric alien rule. So. the Russians deliberately inflicted
'conditions of l'fc calculated to bring about its physical destruc
tion in whole or in part,' by intensified mass deportations and
forcible collectivization.
"Since the infamous Scrov Instruction.' whose original is
In this country deportations proceed 'without fuss or panic'
In the dead of night, and families are invariably split up. The
Instruction provides that families be driven intact to 'points
of concentration.' and there be separated under the pretext
of 'sanitary nsrtction.' Thereafter, heads of the families are
put on board one ttain and members of their families are
boarded-up on other trains going to destinations thousands
of miles apart Such measures clearly 'prevent births within
the group' and disrupt the continuity of the nation. This last
form of genoci acts like a time bomb the nations subjected
to Russian rule are doomed to extinction. Finally, children
are taken away from parents, to be brought up as Russians
and atheists. '
Since 1041 when thousands of Lithuanian children were
taken to "summer camps," then removed to the Urals
and Turkestan and never heard from again, men, women
and children to the number of 700,000 have "disapieared"
from Lithuania alone under Soviet auspices prior to 1948.
Some 200,000 men "vanished" in 1948 and other victims
are still being rounded up. And the story is the same
in the other Baltic countries.
There seems no question but that the deliberate destruc
tion of the Baltic nations with their original culture,
their ancient languages and their proud traditions, their
devotion to western civilization and Christianity is as
much the polic f Russia as the destruction of the Jews
was the policy of Nazi Germany and it is happening to
other peoples as well in the march of the barbarians
toward world conquest.
BY BECK
Actions You Regret
THAT'S OLD 0O6,
ALL COOPED UP AND NO
WATER IN MIS PAN TO
DRINK THE POOR V (SOLD HIM INTO
PUPPY.. WAH..MAKE "EM 1 A 6000
TREAT HIM BETTER.. LJ HOME-i
YAH..
YOU OLK5HT U. J I SOLD HIAn TO
TO 8E ASHAMEOI) A KIND MAN, BUT
YOU 6AI0 YOU ( ) I CAN'T HELP WHOM
HE SOLD HIM TO...
WHY THE HECK DID
WE COME DOWN
THIS ALLEY..?
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Admiral Forrest Sherman
A Favorite of Forrestal
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Here's the dope on Admiral Forrest Sherman,
the man who favored unification:
He was Forrestal's favorite. Forrestal had him earmarked for
chief of naval operations, considered him the broadest military
man he had ever known.
A GUILD
Wizard of Odds
VVJAU
SIPS FOR SUPPER
A Wasted Nickel
BY DON UPJOHN
Diogenes should come to Salem, and h wouldn't need a flash
light. C. A. McClure, engineer for the long-range planning com
mission, saw a farmer's truck parked on the street a few days
ago, and the parking meter showed "violation." The owner had
parked longer than he had a right to for his pennies or his nickel.
Then the owner
In fact, For
restal sent Sher
man to the
Mediterran e a n
with the idea of
replacing Adm.
Richard Con
oily as fleet
commander for
Europe. But
Conolly begged
to stay on, and
Forrestal gave
in, expecting 'to
make the transfer later.
Sherman and Conolly have
never gotten along since, Con
ollly being an old-line, unim
aginative, battleship admiral.
Sherman is just the opposite
alert, aggressive, with his eyes
ahead.
Sherman is short, tanned,
ruddy with straight gray hair.
He wears glasses at his desk. He
was a champion fencer at An-
1
Drew teara
a p p eared. He
looked at the
meter. He got a
coin from his
purse, inserted
it in -the meter,
got in the truck
and drove away
C. W. Fitzger
ald, the well
known painter
and decorator
LMU
Lloyd Weeks gardens on the
North River road as being the
last Iris of summer. Now we
hear that Mrs. Laura Trachsel
of Carleton way has had iris in
bloom for the past two months
and others are still in bud and
getting ready to unfold.
napolis, but his favorite exer
cise now is walking. Aboard scalp.
ship, he paces the deck; on land, Didn't it mean something to
he'd rather walk a few blocks the company to be able to do
than catch a cab. business with a high-class, level-
Though he has a dynamic headed, responsible American
mind, Sherman's personality 1'ke Phil Murray? asked Ching.
falls short of Admiral Halsey's. "Well, this question of contri
He doesn't play golf or tennis, butory pensions is a matter of
but reads avidly for recreation, principle with us," interposed
He prefers weighty works, such Roger Blough, counsel for U.S.
as the London. Economist Steel. The presidental fact-
arguments that workers must
contribute to the pension fund.
"But your captive coal mines
have a noncontributory agree
ment with John L. Lewis,"
Ching told U.S.Steel Vice Pres
ident John Stephens.
"Yes, and look what happen
ed to Lewis's pension fund,"
Stephens replied. "It's been
bankrupted because it never was
set up on a sound, acturial basis
in the first place. We want to
establish a sound pension plan
for U.S. Steel employees.
Ching argued that Phil Mur
ray had proved his responsibil
ity by his relentless fight against
communist elements in the CIO.
In fact, Murray's leadership was
now being endangered because
of S-Lgedbo"cderpro! POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
posals for ending the steel
strike, which management had
rejected. As a result, CIO left
wingers were yelling for his
Miss tme old fabm?-
ODDS SHOW 1 IN 12 Or
MJUP CITY NEIGHBORS
DAISES CHICKENS.'
WANT TO BE A CENTENAB1AN?J
YOU MUST OVERCOME ODDS I
TO I TOLIVE
THOSE IOO
YEARS ' I
ventcs,auir.)
r-.
IT J PfL a J
'9
rrn amy fLCAHIEB THIS
VEA(PP-AMEPICANS BY ODDS
OF 16 TOl USED M0PC SOAP
IN 1948 THAN EVES BEFOPE.
ed mandolin
And now comes word from'
Jim McGilchrist, the capitol
guide, that he had two fine
camellias in bloom, oulside plant
ing uith nn nmlpflinn that lha
down at Brooks, or should we 0aks arc loaded with acorns,'
say up at Brooks was in yes- the mountain ash, madrona,
tcrday with some samples of crabapple and berry shrubs are
pussywillows which have been breaking down with fruit. Good
open for three or four days and ness, goodness, what is the coun
he dropped same on our desk try coming to? Mavbe the owls
as a challenge to Dick Severin, will be coming out' in the day
who for several years has been time.
claiming the early opening
championship in the pussywil- County Judge Grant Murphy
low marathon. We're sorry we was today bemoaning the loss
couldn't contact Dick to see ' the Stayton high school gym-
whether this beats any of his nasium by fire last night, and,
numerous past records, but no Perhaps, had a pretty good right
doubt will hear from him sooner ,0- He was construction fore-
or later if he still claims the man in charge of building the
glory. Dick has moved away structure in the old days when
from the scene of his numerous rle lived at Stayton. Our county
pussywillow triumphs so don't Judge has been quite a versatile
know how they are faring this nian in his day. We'd say if the
fall. It may be they've bloomed Precedent established by Harry
and withered away by this time Truman of making presidents
for all we know. ' out of county judges is to be
followed that Grant would prob-
And the other day we told of ably do a better job at it than
a late blooming iris at the Mrs. Harry.
strings. Mrs
CKn.n.. i.rnn finHars u7nnl4 hava in nm nn Drima cnirA horS
spect of Gen. Lauris Norstad with a different solution if they son was a gen-i
while writing the unification act. had to run a steel mill, he in- ius, rushed him
NOTE Sherman was ready timated.
to testify with the other admir- Maybe the fact -finders also
als on Capitol Hill. He flew took into consideration the prob
into town, and had his state- lems of those who work in a
ment all ready. But Secretary steel mill, slyly suggested Ching.
of Defense Johnson already had "But contributory pensions
him in mind for chief of naval are now an accepted fact-a part
operations, didn't want him to of our economy," argued Stcph
gct splattered with mud. So Cns. "Social-securitv pensions
Sherman was kept in the shad- are contributory. The railroad
ow, never tookthe stand. retirement act is based on the
same principle. Private indus-
trv rannnt he criticized for
Atomic - war preparations in gojng along with the pattern
cniain nave oeen lniensuieo. established by congress."
iui:c news ui ine nussian 1
Way to Make New Friends
Tokyo, Nov. 31P1 The Mitsukoshi department store one
of Tokyo's largest made lots of new friends today.
It was free taste day at the liquor counter.
Products of 14 Japanese distilleries were introduced.
There to meet them were thousands of Japanese lined
three deep. Clerks were lined three deep behind the counters,
too.
The accepted rule was one for the customer and one for
the clerk. Apparently the clenks won for they were still three
deep behind the confer when the last tipsy customer left.
Tomorrow the counter will sell liquor that is If the clerks
make It down In time to open up.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Will Chinese Reds Try
To Invade Neighbors?
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
tin Forrlin Afliin Aiiritsii
The sweeping success of the communist armies In China has
set the chancelleries of the western world to pondering whether
the victorious forces are likely to halt at China's frontiers or
whether they may try to spread the Red ism bv invasion of
neignooring countries.
bomb. London would be the first
object of attack. Therefore the
British army has ordered 500,
000 vest-pocket geiger counters
to detect radioactivity. Air
raid wardens will use them to
report on what parts of the city
are radio active.
Chief result of the American
ambassadorial conference in Lon
don was to appoint 'Chip" Boh
len, ace expert on Russia, to
mastermind U.S. strategy be
hind the iron curtain.
Stalin recently called Tito
the "Little Hitler." The truth
is Stalin is shorter than Tito.
Tito's chief trouble in defend
ing Yugoslavia is ammunition.
So
the night.
iCopyriiht !
RUNNING FOR OFFICE IN 1910
Os West Recalls Financing
His Campaign on $3800
By OSWALD WEST
0vrnar f Orccsn from 1911 I Ml)
Reports covering the 1910 campaign expenditures of candidates
for State offices were destroyed in the Capitol building fire of
1935. But Dave O'Hara, of the Secretary of State's office, advises
me that he finds them recorded in the Secretary's report to the
1911 legislature.
tu:.. nnAi. .krnui 4hat 4hr was nnvinff for It all T4llt T
Yugoslavia's artillery guns and expended in my behalf in didn't let it cause me to stay
tank, were supplied by the So- h 1910 Gubernalorial cam- awake nights,
viets, so Tito cant get spare -i.,i tiiiu
60. Of which I contributed
$450.
The balance, $3,354.60 was
collected and disbursed by a so
called "West Boosters Club."
To this, Ben Olcott as I recall,
contributed $1,500. The balance
was collected in small amounts,
Look Out! That Banana Song
Coming Back, Prima Warns
By HAL BOYLE
New York lP) If you want your boy to be a great violinist,
don't make him study the violin.
A lady named Mrs. Prima made this mistake down In New
Orleans about 30 years ago.
She had a little boy, Louie, who made a violin out of a cigar
dox and borrow- '
went from the cornet to the
trumpet, and has dwelt ever
since in the kingdom of jazz.
"For years mah mother still
wanted me to be a violin vir
tuoso had her heart set on it,"
said the band leader. "But she's
happy now very happy."
For today Prima has a 16
piece band, a recording firm,
two sheet music publishing com
panies and a racing stable of 11
horses. He and his brother also
own a New Orleans night club.
His various enterprises have
grossed as high as $500,000 a
year.
"If you want a kid to go into
music," said Louie, "the best
thing is to let him learn a little
piano first so he'll get a basic
knowledge of chorus and har
mony. "Then, as he grows older, let
him take up whatever special
instrument he decides himself
he likes best."
off to a violin
teacher. For
eight misera
ble years, un
willing Louie
sawed through
endless Hungar
ian rhapsodies.
"All the time Ah wished Ah
had made a cigar box out of
a violin instead of a fiddle out
of a cigar box," he recalled.
j
One day he picked up a cor
net belonging to his older broth-
it went-sometimes into fr. Leon. He blew a few in-
loxicaung liuiea dim umift
his fiddle and bow for life.
parts and ammunition. The
Yugoslavs are dickering with the
Italians to manufacture ammuni
tion in northern Italy. And it
was only a short time ago the
two countries were rowing over
Trieste!
Secretary Acheson's planning
chief. George Kennan, has Just
As the campaign drew to a
close, I returned to headquarters.
Old "System" Olcott had
wound up office operations. The
clerical force had been paid,
thanked and dismissed, and on country again
Prima's own formula for sue- '
ce. is to "play pretty for the
people.
"The reason the band business
Is bad now is because too many
leaders have lost touch with
what the public wants. They
play to please themselves.
"But the one-type dance band
that plays a single style is a
thing of the past. People ex
pect more for their money
they want the band to give them
a novelty show as well as good
dance music."
In keeping with his theory
Louie has revived a 1923 epi
demic "Yes, We Have No Ba
nanas" hoping it will infect the
completed a secret study of what 1 think, by Jim Linn,
the cold war may cost.
to fifty billion a year.
It runs
of it handed to me to cover
traveling expenses.
Some weeks after receiving
the democratic nomination for
governor, I opened a modest
two-room headquarters in Sa
lem, sharing it with Thos. B.
Kay, republican
a desk was a full and complete
itemized statement of all office
nd much exPcnditures, with receipted
voucners auacnea, as requirea
by law.
The total amounted to around
$1,500, and had been paid with
Olcott's Alaska money.
That evening as we sat around
headquarters chewing the fat,
Ben made bold to inquire how I
ndidate for thought the election would come
oui. i naan i ine least iaea, dui
felt that I should give him some
thing for his money
Secretary of .
Slate Acheson
has expressed
concern that the
Reds might
strike beyond
China.
Howe Vf r
many diplomats
take the view
that the com
munists won't!
invade other na
tions militarily Dwl" "'
tr -5
efforts to convert these coun
tries to the Red ism. There al
ready are communist parties on
the Indian peninsula and in Bur
ma. Actually the efforts to com
munize India stretch back as far
as the revolution of 1917 which
brought Bolshevism to power in
Russia.
I spent several months in In
dia at that time and encountered
communism myself, although
but will depend on fifth column the British secret service
offensives, with perhaps later In- which covered the country like
filtration by guerrillas. a net was keeping close tabs
Whatever may be the proce- on all such movements,
dure, of this I think we may be Despite this generation - long
sure: Moscow is bound to take crusade, communism never has
advantage of the communist sue- made great headway in Pakis
cess in China to try to spread tan or India. In Burma, on the
Bolshevwm throughout the Far other hand, the Reds have made
East. considerable progress, though
' just how substantial that pro-
Naturally. thoughts immedi- gress may be is questionable,
ately turn to Burma and to the The Burmese are great in
Indian peninsula, which com- dividualists. and I think we may
prises the nations of India and assume that any lasting corn
Pakistan. This vast territory munism then would be of the
contains more than 400.000.000 Tito variety. That is to say, the
people close to a fifth of the Burmese are unlikely to sub
globe's population. scribe to an Ism which deprives
The Chinese nationalists still them of their sovereignty and
hold that part of Western China makes them answerable to Mos
adjolnlng Burma. But should cow.
the communist armies capture That the same thing i. true
this Chinese territory they of both Pakistan and India,
would have direct communica- They are intensely nationalistic
lion with Burma and thence and wouldn't surrender one iota
with India. of their sovereignty to another
It Is hard to believe that the nation. They made that amply
Chinese communists would ven- clear in their long fight against
lure any military invasion of England's domination.
Burma and India. It is equally As a matter of fart, much the
hard to believe that they would same can be said of many other
Intensify their already vigorous areas of southeast Ana.
LABOR-GO-ROUND
Truman will not reappoint J.
Copeland Gray to the national
labor relations board when his
term expires this year. Labor
is down on him.
Labor leaders now figure that sta,e treasurer,
if thev cant repeal the Taft- Bin8 without campaign
f..n4i. mm. rt 4i.A II...
Hartley Act, me ncsl tactic is j n(j i-uini! mv nenril wrote nn
to pressure for pro-labor men spent preparing form letter, for ' t , woTw
.u ... r,r vntor and in mh inn fa.mr. ,ne wa" lnal 1 wOUW Win Dy
on ine hlad, - - -
Usually John L. Lewis has able newspaper clippings, cover
made the mine operators sweat. lnK m.v Past official accomplish
Now the operators are lcttine ments particularly as
John sweat. He has been des- land aScnt and railroad commis-
peratclv anxious to settle the sioner these to be used to cir-
coal strike. cularize the voters.
Ben Fairlcss. president of While thus engaged. Ben Ol-
U.S. Steel and the son of a coal cott blew in from Fairbanks.
Alaska. And. "believe it or
not," he had $3,000 in his poke.
We had worked together in the
Ladd and Bush bank, and hunt
ed small game over my dog.
miner, two weeks ago urged his
company executives to sign a
one-year contract with the union
along the lines recommended by
the President's fact- finding
board.
CIO Boss Phil Murray, who
6.500 votes.
The next evening the night
,aje before election Ben dropped in
i m'ciMiiuHi ifi s aiiu auvisea us
that
had been deposited at Geo.
Water's cigar store, $5,000 to bet
on my opponent, and were giv
ing favorable odds of 2 to 1."
"So. what?" said I.
"I called up the United Fruit
company, thinking they'd be
glad to know this," said Prima'
press agent. "But they asked
us, please, not to do it. Said
that song hurt the sale of ba
nanas. I asked them why, and
the man said:
" 'I don't know. I had a clip
ping that explained why, but I
lost the clipping.' '
"Ah can't understand it ei
ther." said Louie. "That was
So, I arose about tne b'KSest song hit of the
uemury. Ana An mink the time
is ripe for it again people need
something like those gang things
everybody can sing."
Louie's proudest memorv is
He had found that there of the way he played in the White
House' for President Rooscvclt'i
last birthday luncheon. Mrs.
Roosevelt invited him.
"Waiting in line to meet him
Ah got nervous for the first
He was curious to know why
knows better, has let his eo- I was not out campaigning, and
horts get away with an unfair I told him why.
habit which boomerangs against
labor. Though Housing Expedi
ter Tighe Woods has been casti
gated by the real estate lobby,
the CIO convention in Cleve
land also castigated him for be
"Hell." he said. "I can run
this part of the show. You had
better get out and circulate."
D..t " 1 : t.
mnnv m r,,n .h'i. ttJ. tw. showed around 6700 majority
money to run this office. There i,n,u u - i- u
will be typists and printers to
ng the friend of the real estate Pay and stamps and stationery
lobby. It looks like Woods was to buy. '
really trying to be impartial . . . "Oh. forget it." said he. "I'll
The CIO convention also castl- take care of that part of the
gated Jim Reynolds, conscien- show." And he did.
tious NLRB member as anti-
labor. Reynolds has tangled So, I walked out of headquar
with some labor bosses but has ters. not to return until just a
a long record of fighting for the few days before the election,
little guy. I had touched the "West Boosters
Club" for some cash and gather-
PAT1EXT CY CHING ed a little from friends along
Unsung hero of the steel ne- the highways and by-ways,
gotiations was long, lanky Cy Good friends provided most of
Ching who. at the age of 71. re- needed auto transportation and
signed from the U.S. Rubber paid hall rent for speaking en
company two years ago to help gagements.
his country as a labor concili- Thus did we campaign from
ator. day to day.
Citing's patience is that of Wherever I traveled. I saw
Job's. All week lon(. hour after evidence of Olcott's activities,
hour, day after day. like a Letters and circulars, by the
broken phonograph record, he thousands were reaching voters
listened to the same company w hich caused me to wonder who
"Well." said he, "I bet 'em time in mah life." said Prima.
$1,500. If we win the election, "He was one of mah heroes. Ah
I will rake in S3.000 of some- didn't know whether to say,
body's money which, added to 'pleased to meet you,' 'hody do,'
the $1,500 I bet, will make or 'the pleasure is mutual.'
$4,500." Finally, Louie got to FDR and
blurted out:
"Helly Daddy."
The president laughed out
loud.
"Ah think." said Louie, "he
With those figures in hand, """"stood hepcat talk."
Ben looked at the figures on the
When election night rolled
around, it appeared that I
would win by 5 or 6 thousand.
The official count, as I recall.
Cops Must
Be Protected
wall, and asked: "How did you
come to be so far wrong?"
"How much." I asked, "did
you have when you blew In from
Fairbanks?" New Westminster, B.C., Nov.
"$3,000." said he. 3 (U.Ri-We must protect our do.
"And now," said I. "you have lice now that It is difficult to get
good men for the force," Magis-
$4,500.
"That's right." said he.
"Well," said I. "it appears that
nobody owes nobody nothin'."
"That's right," said he.
trate J. Edmonds told John D.
Carrier. 27, Vancouver Tuesday
as he fined him $500 for biting
Constable Gordon Kemp. .
'Sorry, Judge, I'm Pretty Busy'
Dallas, Tex., Nov. S (.? District Judge Dallas Blanken
ship, cheeking a list of persons summoned for jury duty, rail
ed R. J. Dixon.
"I'd like very much to serve, judge," said the smiling Dixon.
"But I'm pretty busy this week."
Judge Blankenshlp took one look and quickly excused the
prospective Juror. It was his fellow Jurist, District Judge R.
J. Dixon.