2 Capital Journal, Salem,
Christmas Tree
Sheds Its Lights
The 72-foot tree on the Mar
ion county courthouse lawr. shed
its Christmas lights Wednesday,
perhaps for the last time.
The tree, which gained nation
wide recognizance in 1913 when
it was the first living Christmas
tree to be lighted, has become
so large that stringing lights on
it is hazardous, and the Salem
Cherrians, in charge of decor
ating the tree, have indicated:
that the tree may not be lighted!
again.
Members of the courthouse
planning commission, who met
Tuesday to discuss plans for aj
proposed new courthouse, ex
pressed sentiment for the tradi
tional Christmas tree. All com
mission members were anxious
to determine whether or not the
construction of a new courthouse
would necessitate the removal
of the tree.
Pietro Bclluschi, architect de
signing the new courthouse, said
that the fate of the tree would
depend on whether or not the
new courthouse would be set in
the exact center of the block.
Railroad Bridge
Threatened
Richland, Jan. 4 UP) River ice
is threatening another structure
just a few miles from the spot
where the 900-foot army pontoon
span was ripped loose yesterday.
Earth levees were constructed
In the Yakima river this morn
ing to protect temporary pilings
from ice floes.
The wooden pilings were
driven to support equipment
constructing a railroad bridge
over the river. The bridge is part
of a $1,000,000 contract held by
J. A. Terteling and Sons, Boise,
for construction of a railroad
spur into the atomic city.
Last winter ice, despite use
of
dynamite and heavy equipment,
snapped several wooden pilings
of a highway bridge a few yards
downstream from the railway
span site. The atomic energy
commission, which built the tres
tle bridge, was forced to remove
a section of the span. The sec
tion later was replaced with an
army Bailey bridge.
Terteling officials admitted
this morning that if the present
freeze-up continues there is
good chance they will lose the
railroad structure.
Portland-Oakland
Air Record Claimed
Portland, Jan. 4 (P) A com
mercial flight record of 1 hour,
30 minutes between Portland and
Oakland, Calif., was claimed to
day by Western Airlines. j
The company reported the
flight was made Monday on a
southbound trip of a Convair
pressurized liner flying at 19,000
feet altitude. Capt. Ed Schuster
of Los Angeles reported the
Dolls of the Past Mrs. John Gilchrist holds dolls for dis
play at San Francisco's Dc Young Memorial museum. Doll
(left) Is of wood and dates from middle 19th century. Other
Is of Inter period nnd has china head.
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Appointments Open
For Infant Clinic
V.'oodburn A well baby and
nre-srhftnl rhilrirpn rlinif will be
held at the Woodburn library Washington, Jan. 4 UP Sen
Tuesday January 10, at 12:30 ator Magnuson (D-Wash.) said
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p.m., according to Mrs. John
jj'ooncr local health chairman.
pcr, local health chairman,
A few appointments arc still
open for this date and mothers
interested should call Mrs. Hoo
per at Woodburn 1602. The
series of examinations for school
children has been completed and
no more will be held.
Railroads Ask
More Mail Pay
Washington, Jan. 4 UP) The
I nation's major railroads today
j asked the government to near
ly double their pay for carrying
the mails compared with levels
at the start of 1947.
The petition was filed with
the interstate commerce com
mission. The rail carriers have
been pressing the ICC for high
er mail pay for the last two
years. They contend that mount
ing operating costs over the last
several years make a perman
ent adjustment in mail pay rates
necessary.
Railroad sources estimated
that if today's revised petition
is approved it will yield the
carriers more than $100,000,
000 in excess of what they now
get for hauling mail.
The original rate boost peti
tion was filed in February, 1947.
That requested a 45 per cent
hike in rates. The ICC tempor
arily granted a 25 per cent in
crease while studying the mat
ter. The original plea has been
amended several times to ask
even higher rates.
Today's amendment asks that
compensation be fixed at 95
per cent above the January,
1847, rates.
N. Y. World-Telegram
Buys Rival Paper
New York, Jan. 4 UP) Pur
chase of the New York Sun by
the New York World-Telegram
was announced today. Both are
afternoon newspapers.
The two papers will be pub
lished under a joint title begin
ning with tomorrow's editions.
The Sun's outstanding features
and columns will be added to
those of the World-Telegram.
Announcement of the transac
tion was made simultaneously
by Roy W. Howard, president
and editor of the World-Telegram,
a Scripps Howard news
paper, and Thomas W. fDewart,
president and publisher of the
Sun.
The purchase included the
name, good will and circulation
list of the Sun. No plant facill
ties, physical equipment or real
estate was involved in the tran
saction, and no purchase price
was announced.
plane averaged 360 miles an hour
and hit a top of 450 in clipping
59 minutes from the regular
scheduled time. The pilot report
cd he had taken advantage of
a tailwind.
POUND OF FAT
Rail to Alaska
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President Truman ha asked the
rresiuem ui .u u.e
secretaries o i ., ucn-i w diiu
interior to iaKe steps leading
to negotiations with Canada for
a proposed coastal rail line to
Alaska.
Magnuson said the state de
partment had informed him that
Mr. Truman had asked recom
mendations for:
1. The timing and method of
carrying out negotiations with
the Canadian government for a
location survey for the proposed
railroad.
2. Members of a commission
to carry on the negotiations with
a Canadian commission.
Magnuson said the commis
sion would act as an arm of the
state department in the negotia
te ns. He told a reporter the
plan is to hook up the Pacific
and Great Eastern railroad own
ed by the province of British
Columbia and the U. S. Alaskan
railroad.
"I'm very pleased that nego
tiations are beginning," Mag
nuson said.
He said the proposed railroad,
running about 1,400 miles
through northern British Col
umbia and the southern Yukon
would be a "great thing" for
Alaskan defense and open the
"last great frontier" on the con
tinent for economic develop
ment. Zink Files Suit
For $27,500
A suit for a total of $27,500
damages resulting from a freak
auto accident a year ago was
filed in the county clerk's office
Tuesday afternoon.
Plaintiff in the complaint is
Delmas F. Zink, who at the time
of the accident was an employee
of the Oregon state highway de
partment. The suit was filed
against George E. and Bcrnice
K. Conant.
The accident occurred on Jan
uary 4, 1948, on Highway 31 in
Lake county, Oregon. Zink was
adjusting the sanding equipment
on a snow plow truck parked in
front of another snow plow ve
hicle.
A car operated by Bcrnice K.
Conant struck the rear of the
rear vehicle, causing it to crash
into the snow plow ahead, crush
ing Zink between the two ve
hicles.
Zink sustained a broken leg,
which he alleges has developed
Into permanent injury.
The plaintiff seeks $2750 med
ical costs, $2500 salary loss and
general damages for $20,000 for
the disability he incurred in the
injury, a total of $27,750.
The complaint was filed by
Kay n. Lafky, Zink s attorney.
Cut Marshall
Funds $1 Billion
Washington, Jan. 4 u,R) The
Marshall plan nations of Europe
have been asked to slash al
most $1,000,000,000 from their
American aid requests for the
next fiscal year, it was announc
ed today.
Richard Bissell, Jr., deputy
administrator of the program,
said that all the recovery na
tions with the exception of
Greece have been asked to re
duce their aid requests by 25
per cent from the $3,776,000,
000 they requested for the cur
rent fiscal year. This would
bring their requests to approx
imately $2,832,000,000 for the
1951 fiscal year.
Bissell told a news conference
that an exception was being
made in the case of Greece be
cause recovery there was slower
than in other countries. He said
that aid to Greece in the past
two years had been mostly for
relief after her protracted civ
il war.
Last year, Greece was given
between $155,000,000 and $160,
000,000 in Marshall plan aid,
and Bissell said about the same
amount would be recommended
next year.
Earl Coc to Speak
Portland, Jan. 4 UP) Earl Coe.
Washington secretary of state,
will be the principal speaker at
the annual Jackson club dinner
sponsored by the Oregon demo
crats here next Saturday.
Airmatei R. Marlin Perkins, director, Lincoln Park zoo,
holds chimpanzee Heinle II, and stewardess Ellie Roman
holds orangutan Ling-Wong as the zoo additions arrive by
air in Chicago.
Is Governor McKay Angling
After the Norwegian Vote?
By STEPHEN A. STONE
Guvernor Doug McKay onsker at faa det Norske folks stemme
ved neste valg.
Here at this print shop there
But if you can put your own dote
that Governor Doug McKay Is
the next election.
What other meaning can you
give the governor's extra-official
activity? He's author of an arti
cle under a two-column headline
appearing in Morgenbladet, big
daily newspaper published at Os
lo.
"Norway and Oregon Have
Much in Common," says the
headline. And the by-line is
"By Douglas McKay, Oregon."
The story is printed in English
with the Norwegian translation
beside it. The editors don't ex
plain which one Governor Mc
Kay wrote. It is assumed he
wrote the English version. But
maybe not. Doug has learned a
lot of things since he became
governor and it would be no
surprise if he's learned Nor
wegian. The Sons of Norway,
and the daughters, too, are strong
hereabouts and most of them
are naturalized citizens.
The governor mentions ethnic
ties between Norwegians and
Orcgonians, and perhaps he's
thinking of political ties come
election day.
Anyway, it's a good booster
story for Oregon and Norway
and extends Oregon's greetings
and congratulations.
"Norway and Oregon," he says
in part, "in their agriculture,
their timber, their fishing and
their people, have so much in
common. There are strong eth
nic ties between Norwegians and
Oregonians. The physical vigor,
industry and Initiative of the
many Norwegians who settled in
Oregon have been forces of in
calcuable good in tVie building
of this commonwealth to a posi
tion of world Importance.
And even better relation
ships lie ahead, to be fostered
and strengthened by such con-
structive facts as your great new
ship, the Oslofjord, and similar
vehicles, both material and
spiritual, for drawing our two
peoples together."
Midget Market to
Open Center Branch
The Midget market, which has
operated for many years on State
street between Commercial and
Liberty, announced today a sec
ond market will be opened on
North Capitol street.
The location is on the west
side of North Capitol across from
Capital Shopping center. It will
be known as the Capitol branch
of the Midget market.
The operation will be on the
same basis as the downtown mar
ket. Opening date is to be an
nounced.
Shattuc's
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Closed Til Jan. 17
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going after the Norwegian vote at
Soviet Fleet in
Port of Dairen
Taipeh, Formosa, Jan. 4 UP)
Chinese navy reports today said
parts of the Russian Asiatic fleet,
including more than 20 submar
ines, had moved into ice free
Dairen, red held north China
port.
Nationalist leaders here sus
pect that any attempt by Chinese
communists to invade Formosa
would come from Dairen and
Tsingtao, another communist
north China port, instead of
from the mainland 100 miles to
the west of Formosa.
Intelligence reports of the na
tionalists say the Chinese reds
have bought 20 British tank
landing ships and numerous mo
torboat engines in Hong Kong.
Reports say the Chinese com
munists in the north have been
concentrating ships for the ev
entual assault on Formosa ex
pected soon. Russian assistance
in the formation of the commun
ist amphibious operation is sus
pected by the nationalists.
Lowden Promoted
To Regional Position
Portland, Jan. 4 UP) The
promotion of Merle S. Lowden,
supervisor of the Fremont Na
tional forest since 1946, to assist
ant regional forester here was
announced today.
Lowden, who has been with
the U.S. forest service since
1934, will succeed John C.
Kuhns, retired.
Walter W. Wetzel, who has
been in chargr of postwar plan
ning, will be transferred from
forest headquarters here to San
Francisco.
Cache of $38,725 In Auto
San Pedro, Jan. 4 UP) A
routine police check of an old
automobile uncovered a. cache
of $38,725 in government bonds,
jewelry, burglar tools and guns.
Detectives identified the driv
er as William J. Nelson, 33,
former inmate of McNeil Isl
and, Wash., federal penitentiary.
The Department of Agricul
ture says veins visible on a
cow's udder do not necessarily
indicate the amount of milk
she will give.
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Gold Reserves
Jump in Britain
London, Jan. 4 UP) Sir Staf
ford Cripps announced today
Britain's vital gold-dollar re
serves jumped $263,000,000 in
the last quarter of 1949.
This is $348,000,000 above the
dangerous low point of last Sep
tember, just before the pound
was cheapened from $4.03 to
S2.80.
The reserves now stand at $1,-
688,000,000, the chancellor of
the exchequer told a news con
ference. This is still well below
what the treasury considers a
safe minimum $2,000,000,000,
Cripps cited three reasons for
the increase:
1. A flow of dollars from im
porters of British goods who had
held up payment until the pound
was devalued.
2. Release of a backlog of
orders from importers who had
anticipated a cheaper pound,
3. "An improvement in the
basic sterling area balance of
payments with the dollar area
Cripps said he figured each
reason had been "of roughly
equal importance in reducing the
deficit."
Scullum Talks
Bee Industry
The bee industry of the state
is in somewhat of a sick condi
tion, reported Prof. Herman A.
Scullum of Oregon State college
as members of the Salem Rotary
club listened fo a discussion on
the subject of honey production
and pollinization Wednesday
noon.
The Rotarians learned a num
ber of things they had never
heard of. For one thing. Prof.
Scullum told them that the bee
keepers had introduced artificial
ensemination in their efforts to
produce better queens. Then,
too, the drone is entirely useless
except as a mate for the queen
and since the latter's usefulness
is extremely short, there is every
effort to eliminate the drone.
The bee, from a honey produc
tion angle in Oregon is "pretty
small potatoes, said the speak
er. However, from the point of
pollinization the insect is most
valuable. Much of our fruit and
seed would disappear if the bee
were to become extinct.
He spoke of the importation
into Jefferson county of from
seven to eight thousand colo
nies of bees for the purpose of
pollinizing ladino blooms. Those
who hire the bees pay from $3
to S5 a colony.
Death of 2,000 colonies out of
10,000 inspected by the state bee
inspector constitutes a serious
threat, warned Prof. Scullum.
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Soviet Sfirs-up
Strike in Finland
Helsinki, Finland, Jan. 4 UP)
Premier Karl - August Fager
holm's government, harassed by
Russian charges of peace treaty
violation, today faced an addi
tional battle for its life over
trade union demands for a gen
eral wage increase.
A trade union federation
heaped more trouble on the so
cial democratic government of
this tiny Baltic country with a
demand for a 10 percent general
wage raise.
A special session of parlia
ment has been called to discuss
the wage question. Fagerholm is
expected to support the trade un
ion demands, but rightist par
ties oppose them. The session,
demanded by the rightists de
spite Fagerholm's opposition, is
expected to begin January 10.
The agrarians, strongest party
of the rightists, threaten Fager
holm's leadership.
If Fagerholm is defeated in
parliament on the wage issue a
caretaker cabinet will be ap
pointed until after the next pres
idential elections February 15.
The social democratic candi
date is the current president,
Juho Paasikivi. Strongly oppos
ing him is the rightist agrarian
candidate Dr. Urho Kekkonen.
Feed the Birds
During Snow
Feed the birds.
This necessity, says Mrs. Em
ma Kuhlman, must be called to
the attention of Salem people.
If they aren't fed, she says, they
are going to suffer when snow
is on the ground.
"We think of everyone and
everything but the birds," says
Mrs. Kuhlman. "Even the cats.
And you've got to look out for
the cats, or they will get the
birds."
She advises that it isn't good
to scatter food for the birds on
the snow, because the cats will
get them. Some safer way must
be used.
Mrs. Kuhlman is feeding the
birds at her home, 45S South
12th street.
"Why throw remnants of holi
day dinners into the garbage
can?" she asks, "when it could
better be given to the birds?"
69 Degrees in Capital
Washington, Jan. 4 UP) The
capital's temperature broke a
76-year record for Jan. 4 today
with an all-time high of 69 at
11:30 a.m.
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Russian Takes
Walk in Tokyo
Tokyo, Jan. 4 UP) Russia's
member of the allied council for
Japan took another walk today.
He thus avoided hearing an Am
erican charge that 376,000 Jap
anese war prisoners still are in
Soviet hands or dead.
Lt. Gen. K. N. Dercvyanko's
walkout duplicated his perform
ance of two weeks ago today.
Then also he refused to discuss
Russia's failure to complete re
patriation of Japanese captured
in World War II.
When the burly Russian stalk
ed out of today's special council
session, American Chairman
William J. Sebald went ahead
with the charge. It was in the
form of a note from U.S. Secre
tary of State Dean Acheson to
the Soviet ambassador in Wash
ington. The other members of the
four-power council British and
Chinese heard the note recall
that Tass, the Soviet news agen
cy, had announced last May 20
that only 95,000 Japanese pris
oners remained in Russian
hands.
To the contrary, it said, Jap
anese government figures of
"substantial reliability" showed .
an additional 376,929 still were '
being held by the Soviets.
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