THE WEATHER HERE
CLEARING AND COLDER to
night; in creasing cloudiness
Thursday with rain or snow by
late afternoon. Lowest temper
ature tonight, 17; highest Thurs
day, 36.
Mailraam reilerdar. St; minimum I,
day, S. Total 21-honr precipitation: .08!
for month: .10; normal, .10. Scaion precip
itation, la.lfti normal, IR.03. River height,
5.3 feet. (Report bx U.S. Weather Bureau.)
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62nd Year, No. 3 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, Januar) 1950
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Heaviest Snow
No Objections
Filed Against
Salem Bridge
Truman in 'State of Union'
Message Urges Old Program
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Of Season Now
Covers Valley
Miniature Blizzard
Quickly Subsides
New Storm Due
By MARIAN LOWRY FISCHER
Heaviest snowfall' of the sea
son swept in over the valley
regions late Tuesday in minia
ture blizzard proportions, a
strong cold wind accompany.
ing the storm as the white stuff
piled up.
Clearing skies and colder tern'
r peratures are the forecast for
the Salem area tonight with a
new storm due to break by af
ternoon Thursday to bring more
rain and snow. The thermome
ter is due to drop to 17 degrees
here tonight, states the local
weather bureau.
Snow in the Salem vicinity
was measured officially at 1.4
inches, but in drifts it meas
ured five inches and more. The
storm began late Tuesday after
noon, a stiff wind preceding the
snowfall late in the evening. The
cutting wind was recorded up to
37 miles an hour velocity in
minute averages and as high as
53 miles an hour
Warmer Weather
The minimum temperature
Wednesday morning was 29 de
grees, recorded at 6 a.m., against
the 11 degree mark here Tuesday
morning. The Tuesday maxi
mum went only to 32 degrees,
freezing point, that figure be
ing recorded last midnight.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 3)
Blizzards Strike
Middle West
fBT the Associated Press)
Winter let loose with a triple
punch of snow, cold and strong
winds today, landing solid blows
across the nation's midsection.
The Rocky mountain region
still reeled from the impact of
the season s most severe weath
er. The central states and south
into the Texas Panhandle braced
for the frigid attack.
Blizzards howled across the
Dakota prairies and into neigh
boring Minnesota. Highways and
country roads were blocked. Air
liners were grounded. Hundreds
of rail and bus passengers and
motorists were stranded in parts
of the storm belt.
Snow plows in sections of
Minnesota quit work because of
poor visibility. Winds of 35 miles
an hour velocity whipped newly
fallen snow and highway travel
in many areas was virtually
halted.
Snow fell on Texas and the
mercury slid down under the
zero mark in the Lone Star state.
And the mercury tumbled sharp
ly over the midcontinent as the
cold front out of the Rocky
mountain region moved across
the great plains.
The cold mass moved slowly
eastward through the Great
Lakes region and southward
through Texas. Sub-zero read
ings were reported in the north
ern plains, the northern and cen
tral Rockies
National Debt
$257 Billion
Washington, Jan. 4 W) The
government's debt bounded
above $257,000,000,000 on the fi
nal day of 1949, as the current
deficit mounted to $3,299,798,
921.52 at the midway point of
the fiscal year ending June 30.
The treasury, reporting this
today, showed a $615,712,000
burst of spending for 1949's final
operating day, December 30.
Big items that day included
$335,000,000 spent by the veter
ans administration, $90,750,000
by the air force, $74,162,000 by
the agriculture department, $43,
948,000 by the navy and a $109,
536,000 payment of interest on
the debt.
In over-spending its income by
nearly $3,300,000,000 in the first
half of fiscal 1950, the govern
ment moved well on the way to
ward the $5,500,000,000 deficit
President Truman has estimated
for the 12-month period.
' A further deficit of more than
$4,000,000,000 is expected to
shape up in the president's bud
get message next Monday for
fiscal 1951, figuring revenue
prospects at current tax rates.
The treasury report on the
mid-fiscal year position showed,
in round numbers:
Spending was up sharply at a
total of $20,974,000,000 against
$19,317,000,000 at the same
point i year ago.
Army Engineers Hold
Hearing and Receive
River Pilots Approval
By JAMES D. OLSON
Not a single objector appeared
at a hearing Wednesday on the
application of the state highway
commission to construct the Sa-
lem-West Salem bridge at Mar
ion street.
The hearing called by the ar
my engineers was conducted by
Lt. Col. D. A. Elliget, executive
officer of the Portland district
office. He was accompanied by
Robert Hixon, chief of the engi
neering department of the dis
trict office.
G. H. Merwin, representing
Albert Bernert of Oregon City
and Fred Meyer of Kanpton, tug
boat operators, testified that
they were well satisfied with
the bridge plans from a naviga
tion standpoint.
Satisfactory to River Men
G. S. Paxson, bridge engineer
lor the highway department.
said that several conferences
had been held with representa
tives of navigation interests and
final plans for clearance between
the spans of the bridge and the
heighth of the structure were
satisfactory to this group.
He said that the bridge would
be 69.4 feet above low water
which is just one-tenth of a foot
higher than the present Center
street bridge.
240 Foot Clearance
The clearance in the main
channel between piers, he ex
plained, would be 240 feet as
compared with 146 feet between
piers on the present Center street
bridge in the main channel.
iConcluded on race 5, Column 41
Coal Shortage
Hits Railroads
Washington, Jan. 4 (P) The
interstate commerce commission
today ordered a general one
third cut in railroad passenger
service on lines using coal as
fuel. The reduction is effective
at 11:59 p.m. local time Sunday,
January 8.
The order applies to all rail
lines having 25 or less days sup
ply of fuel coal for their passen
ger services "and not having
available a dependable source
of supply."
The ICC said the action was
made necessary by the dwind
ling supplies of coal due to the
recent disturbances and curtail
ments in the coal mining indus
try.
It was the second time in re
cent months that the ICC has
taken such action as a result of
the virtually deadlocked coal
dispute between John L. Lewis'
united mine workers and mine
operators across the nation.
The commission said all rail
roads having less than the stipu
lated amount of fuel reserve
must reduce coal-burning pas
sengers service to 33 Vi per cent
less than the same services pro
vided as of December 1, 1949.
New Exterior Plans
Loom for Courthouse
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Pietro Belluschi. Portland architect who is working under con
tract to design the proposed new Marion county courthouse,
presented an entirely new set of exterior plans to members of the
courthouse commission Tuesday, and once again his plans met
with the disapproval of commission members.
Previous plans submitted b
Belluschi had been criticized for
not conforming to the type of
design employed in buildings of
the state capitol group.
Commission members who
met with Belluschi Tuesday
agreed that the architect's new
plans were in contrast to build
ings in the capitol group, but
rejected the plans because of an
overhanging effect created by
the building's front end design.
In Belluschi's latest drawings,
the front of the first floor is sit
uated several feet back of the
front of the second, third and
fourth floors. A huge porch and
wide vertical columns would
support the upper portion of the
building's front.
County Judge Grant Murphy
complained that "it looks like
someone chopped a section right
out of the building."
A suggestion was given to Bel
luschi that he retain his present
general plan, with the addition
of two wings running out from
the front of the first floor. The I
New Timetable
For Rural Buses
As announced Tuesday by
Carl Wendt of City Transit Lines
the curtailed suburban service
will be effective Thursday
morning.
As a compromise four round
trip runs will be made daily to
accommodate the Swegle, Fruit-
land and Fisher road districts.
The route will be:
Out Center street, crossing
Lancaster, and continuing on
Fruitland. Back on Auburn,
turning right on Lancaster, right
on Market to Swegle school, left
to Sunnyview, left on Holly
wood drive, left to Silverton
road, left on Fisher road, left on
Sunnyview, then to Lancaster,
right to D street, and on D back
to the city.
Buses will leave the terminal
at Court and Commercial at 6:55
and 9:45 a.m. and at 2:35 and
5:40 p.m.
They will leave Fruitland and
Auburn at 7:15 and 10:05 fun.,
and 2:55 and 6 p.m.
Thev will leave Hollywood
drive and Silverton road at 7:30
and 10:20 a.m. and 3:10 and 6:15
p.m.
They will leave Fisher and
Silverton roads two minutes
later than at Hollywood and Sil
verton roads.
They will leave Lancaster and
D street at 7:38 and 10:28 a.m.
and 3:18 and 6:23 p.m.
(Concluded on Pace 5, Column 8)
Chains Needed on
Oregon Highways
Driving conditions on Oregon
highways were dangerous over
almost the whole state, the state
highway commission said in its
9 a.m. road report today.
The road report:
Government Camp Snowing
lightly, packed snow, plowing,
carry chains; 7 inches new snow.
Santiam Pass Snowing lignt-
ly, packed snow, plowing, carry
chains; 8 inches new snow.
Willamette Pass Snowing
lightly, packed snow, plowing,
carry chains, 5 inches new snow.
wings would rid the building of
the overhanging effect, and
make the building more symetri
cal, Murphy said.
Belluschi took his drawings
back to Portland, and indicated
that he would so redesign the
front end.
The plans the commission con
sidered Tuesday differed from
the previous courthouse plans,
which had drawn criticism from
Capital Journal readers, in the
following manners:
The entire building has a more
"unbroken" appearance in that
it features large sections of mar-
bie and massive use of glass;
windows, instead of louvres pro
vide a ring around the top floor;
the columns on and along side
the porch, 26 inches wide, run
the entire height of the building,
being a part of the face of the
building from the second floor
up; the building has a pyramid
appearance, with each floor be
ing smaller in area than the floorl
immediately below it.
Hundreds Sign Petitions People interested in suburban
bus service gathered in a mass meeting at Four Corners Tues
day night to protest curtailment schedules of City Transit
Lines and to sign petitions that will go to the city council.
H. G. Schnasse circulated a petition for regular and better bus
service north of Four Corners and was assisted by C. H. Coy,
J. C. Carpenter, Alice Forgaard, and Fred Mitchell. Several
hundred signatures were obtained in the Swegle district. The
picture shows names being signed at the mass meeting.
Suburbanites Protest
Bus Service Changes
Four Corners, Jan. 4 At a mass meeting held at the Commu
nity hall on Tuesday evening about 70 citizens of the suburban
areas of Auburn, Fruitland, Swegle, Fisher road, Silverton road
and Four Corners met to register a protest to the city council
of Salem about the proposed change in bus service by the City
Tugs Seek to
Free Pontoons
Pasco, Wash., Jan. 4 V-Two
tugs battled the swift Columbia
current .todayin. an .attempt to
free a 900-foot army pontoon
bridge jammed agr.inst a Union
Pacific Railroad span.
Ice floes ripped the pontoon
bridge from its moorings on the
Snake river yesterday. It drift
ed down the Snake river into the
Columbia and caught on the
railroad structure.
State highway engineers said
the pontoon bridge suffered
virtually no damage in its two
and three-quarter mile ride
downstream.
When it is freed, they said, it
will be towed to shore near the
railroad span and no immediate
attempt will be made to re
install it at the former site.
The pontoon bridge was put
in by army engineers after fire
last September 9 destroyed the
original Snake river bridge. It
was on state highway 410. con
necting the tri-cities of Pasco,
Kennewick and Richland with
Walla Walla.
Tom Doyle, district highway
engineer, said efforts would be
made to speed repair of the
burned bridge. Work was to be
completed March 15 under a
contract already made.
Meantime traffic was diverted
to the McNary and Patterson
ferries. The result was that mo
torists from the Xakima valley
have to travel an exlra su miles
via Patterson to reach Walla
Walla. Travel from Spokane to
Walla Walla via the McNary
ferry has to go an extra 50
miles.
Soviet Scientists
Militant Atheists
Moscow, Jan. 4 (P) The So
viet Journal of Science and Life
says many people in the U.S.S.R.
continue to believe in God.. It
called yesterday for education
of the masses in the spirit of
militant atheism.
The Journal, organ of the All
Union Society for the Dissemi
nation of Scientific Knowledge,
declared that the struggle
against religious prejudices
one of the forms of the struggle
for communism.
An article by F. N. Oleshchuk
said, however, that anti-religious
propaganda must strive at con
vincing the masses by remaking
their consciousness and not by
compulsions or prohibitions. He
said administrative measures to
curtail religious thought would
be "harmful.
Raft in Hospital
Hollywood, Jan. 4 (Pi Actor
George Raft is scheduled to un
dergo a gall stone operation to
day in Cedars of Lebanon hos
pital. His physician said Raft
had been suffering from the ail-
iment several months.
Transit Lines covering these
communities.
Petitions signed by several
hundred residents, taxpayers,
and property owners to the city
council "either to demand the
City Transit Lines to give prop
er dependable service as prom
ised and keep it so, or revoke
their franchise immediately, and
furthermore issue a license to
some one party who may want
to operate a bus route that will
give satisfactory, dependable
and adequate service at a reason
able fare."
Acting Chairman J. H. Gordon
of route 5 presided. The meet
ing was open for discussion.
Many of the residents of these
communities have purchased
homes in the last two or three
years because of the advantage
of bus service into Salem. A
very large percentage of these
people who live in the suburban
areas work in Salem business
and industrial concerns while
many more are employed by
the state. These people will be
left without transportation if the
bus service is curtailed to any
extent in the morning and late
afternoon hours.
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Egyptians Vote
Wafdist Regime
Cairo, Egypt, Jan. 4 (Pi The
mildly reformist Wafd party-
out of power in Egypt since
King Forouk dismissed a Waf
dist government in 1944 rolled
up overwhelming vote majorities
in yeste r d a y ' s parliamentary
elections.
Incomplete returns reported
by the ministry of the interior
today showed Wafd candidates
defeating Saadlst politicians,
who formerly controlled the
parliament's lower house, by
majorities running as high as 10
to one.
Although newspaper reports
said four were killed in election
day clashes, Egypt's first gener
al election in five years was un
usually orderly considering the
country's stormy political tradi
tion.
(Strict Egyptian censorship
presumably prevented direct in
terpretation of the Wafd party'?
topheavy victory. But outsider'
familiar with Egyptian condi
tions considered the vote a re
buke to the Saadist party and
perhaps indirectly, to King Fa-
rouk for the Egyptian armys
flop in fighting against Israeli
troops in the Palestine war last
year.
(Farouk, who has long been
on the outs with Wafd party
leaders, has had an extremely
strong hand in ruling Egypt
through Saadist and coalition
governments. The Wafd party
boycotted the last elections
1945 because Farouk ousted the
Wafdist govern m e n t a few
months earlier.)
Fair Group to Meet
Portland, Jan. 4 W) The
Oregon Fairs association will
meet here Thursday for its an
nual convention.
Message Draws
Praise, Blame
From Congress
Washington, Jan. 4 P) Dem
ocrats found much to praise,
republicans much to criticize in
President Truman's state of the
union message to congress to
day. But not all comment followed
party lines, especially on civil
rights and foreign policy. Sam
ple reactions:
Rep. McCormack (Mass),
house democratic leader: "It is a
courageous message consistent
with President Truman's leader
ship. Internationally, it shows
his determination to stop com
munism and aggression; from
the domestic side, the strength
ening of the family life in Ame
rica. '
Same Old Hash'
Rep. Martin (Mass), house re
publican leader:
"It is the same old political
hash warmed over in the hope of
fooling the people. It fails utter
ly to come to grips with two
great vital needs of the day
cutting down government spen
ding and lowering the tax bur
den on the American people.
These must be done if we are to
have prosperity and jobs for the
workers.
Rep. Arends (111), assistant
republican leader in the house,
said the message opened "the
1950 political campaign." Arends
added:
(Concluded on Page 5, Column 6)
Moderate New
Taxes Sought
Washington, Jan. 4 WP) Pres
ident Truman advocated a "mod
erate amount" of new taxes to
day in a glowingly optimistic
Stale of the Union message
voicing hope of an eventual
trillion-dollar economy.
If America keeps growing as
it has in the last 50 years, he
told congress, the total national
production 50 years hence will
be nearly four times what it
is now, or at the rate of more
than one thousand billions of
dollars a year.
In a mixture of humility and
pride, Mr. Truman said:
"Today, by the grace of God
we stand a free and prosperous
nation with greater possibilities
for the future than any people
have ever had before."
The president's message was
one in which he (1) looked far
into the future when, he said,
the average family may make
the equivalent of more than
$12,000 a year and (2) dwell
ed on what he called the pres
ent day needs for such things as
continued rent controls and re
peal of the Taft-Hartley labor
law.
The president gave no inkling
of how much new revenue he
wants now or where he would
turn to get it. Nor did he dis
close what existing taxes he
would drop or lower to, as he
put it, reduce present mcqui
ties" and "stimulate business
activity."
2 0SC Athletes Die
In Campus Accident
Two prominent Oregon State college athletes lost their lives
in a winter sports accident on the college campus at Corvallis
Tuesday night.
They were Stan McGuire, 22, of Portland, captain-elect of llic
1950 football team, and Bill Corvallis, 21, also of Portland, a
candidate for professional base-'
ball.
Involved in the accident were
Budd Coons, 25, of Salem, and
Bill Austin, 21, of Woodburn.
Coons was bruised, Austin unin
jured. The students were toboggan
ing behind a tow car on the
campus when the accident oc
curred. McGuire, football end named
AP lineman of the week for his
stellar play against Michigan
State last fall, died at 7:11 a.m.
today.
Corvallis, 21, a pitcher for the
Santa Barbara, Calif., farm club
of the Brooklyn Dodgers last
season, died minutes after the
toboggan in which they were
riding swung from its tow car
Into the path of another automo
bile. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 4)
Budget to Call
$1.8 Billion Cut
For Next Year
Washington, Jan. 4 UP)
Speaker Rayburn said today
President Truman's budget for
the fiscal year 1951 will call for
a cut of $1,800,000,000 from this
year's spending.
Rayburn told a news confer
ence the new budget to be pre
sented next Monday will re
flect cuts of around $3,000,000,
000 in foreign aid and defense
spending and an increase of
about $1,200,000,000 in domes
tic spending.
The budget will be Mr. Tru
man's spending proposals for the
12 months beginning next July
1. Spending for the current 12
months is running at the rat? of
about $43,500,000,000 a year.
Since congress members got
back to town tor the new ses
sion there has been an increas
ing clamor for a cut in spending.
Fight Rages in
Senate on Oleo
Washington, Jan. 4 (PI The
senate headed today into a ses
sion-opening fight over a house
passed bill to erase federal tax
es on oleomargarine.
Supporters of the measure
predicted they had the votes to
win but admitted the outlook
was clouded by proposals to
link other excise tax cuts to the
bill.
Senator Fulbright (D-Ark.)
ready with the first major
speech for the bill, said he had
heard reports that an attempt
also would be made to tic a
civil rights rider to the legisla
tion. He denounced any such plans,
along with moves to attach a
general reduction in excise lev
ies to the olco measure, as "sub
terfuges intended to snarl up
the situation."
Democratic Leader Lucas, of
Illinois, moved to forestall any
filibuster against the bill by sen
ators from dairy states, whose
constituents don't want their;
butter market hurt by compet
ing bread spreads.
The legislation, passed by the
house last year, would wipe out
the 10-cents-a-pound tax on yel
low colored olco. It also would
remove the one-quarter cent a
pound levy on the uncolorcd
variety, as well as occupational
taxes on manufacturers, whole
salers and retailers.
Census Supervisor
Off for Seattle
Cornelius Batoson of Pratum,
who will be census supervisor in
this district, will leave Wednes
day night for Seattle where su
pervisors will be under instruc
tion for several days.
Batcson said today that Sa
lem headquarters for the district
have not yet been obtained, and
that he has not been informed
relative to number of person
nel. Stan McGuire, captain-clcct
of 1950 Oregon Biate college
football team, who was fatally
injured in a toboggan accident
Tuesday night.
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7 Point Foreign
Policy Stressed
By President
By JOHN M. HIGIITOWER
Washington, Jan. 4 (PI Presi
dent Truman laid a seven-point
foreign policy program before
congress today. With it, he con
fidently predicted that this coun
try will meet and master the
global challenge of communism
'at this crucial point in world
history."
He called particularly for con
tinuing billions of dollars to sup
port the European recovery pro
gram. The "greatest danger" of the
cold war a communist conquest
of western Europe and the
Mediterranean has receded,
he said in his state of the union
message. But to halt or cripple
the recovery program now, he
asserted, would play into the
hands of the "enemies of democ
racy."
Silent on Far East
While the president was spe
cific on his plans for strong eco
nomic and military cooperation
with the European democracies,
and reaffirmed American sup
port of the United Nations, he
had almost nothing to say about
the Far East.
What if any plans he has re
specting Formosa and the communist-menaced
peoples of Asia
generally he did not say. He did
call for legislation under which
the United States can try to help
raise the living standards in that
part of the world.
(Concluded on Page S, Column 7)
President Asks
CVA Creation
Washington, Jan. 4 (IP) Pre
sident Truman asked congress
again today to create a Columbia
Valley Administration in the
Pacific northwest.
In his state of the union mes
sage to congress, he listed a CVA
among "important resource le
gislation which should be pass
ed at this session."
"Through wise government
policies and government expen
ditures for the conservation and
development of our natural re
sources,' he said, we can be
sure of transmitting to our child
ren and our children's children
a country far richer and more
productive than the one we
know today."
It was Mr. Truman s second
request for an agency to de
velop the Pacific northwest.
Last year he made the proposal
in a special message to con
gress. Bills for the purpose
were introduced and long hear
ings were held, but there was no
legislative action.
A bitter fight over the pro
posal is likely. Opponents con
tend it would give the federal
government absolute control
over economic development of
the Pacific northwest.
Vandenberg for
Aid to Formoi
Washington, Jan. 4 WfjSen.
Arthur H. Vandenberg, (R.,
Mich.), has given his fellow re
publicans a go-ahead for a full
scale assault on the administra
tion's policy on China, it was
disclosed today.
Sen. Robert A. Taft (R., O.),
chairman of the senate GOP pol
icy committee, predicted that his
colleagues will lose no time in
airing new charges that adminis
tration "vacillation" in China
and Formosa may lead to com
munist control over most of Asia.
The issue came to a head yes
terday when a group of repub
lican senators showed Vanden
berg a copy of a United Press
Tokyo dispatch which disclosed
that a state department docu
ment has virtually written off
China and nationalist-held For
mosa to the communists.
These senators asked Vanden
berg if all-ou' republican criti
cism would embarrass him in
his role of a bi-partisan foreign
policy leader.
Vandenberg termed the doc
ument "amazing" and told his
colleagues in no uncertain terms
that he would not seek to shield
the administration from any at
tacks on its China actions.
V