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Kiddies Take Over Five children, all polio victims,
atand close to President Truman two of them on his desk
in a photo arranged by the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis to publicize its 1950 March of Dimes
campaign for funds. Left to right, front: Wanda Wiley, 8,
of Austin, Tex.; Nancy Drury, 7, of Louisville, Ky.; Don
ald Anderson, 9, of Warm Springs, Ore. Back: Linda
Brown, 5, of San Antonio, Tex.; Mr. Truman, and Terry
Tullos, 5, of Laurel, Miss. Wanda is the foundation's 1950
"poster girl." Others have appeared on posters of past
four years. (AP Wlrephoto)
Post Office Janitor Caught
Robbing Mail; Inspector Shot
Robinson, 111., Jan. 17 U.R) A post office Janitor caught red
handed while ransacking the mail, shot and seriously wounded a
postal inspector Sunday night, severely beat another and then
keeled over dead from an apparent heart attack.
The janitor, Harry Taylor, 55,
-
Major
Bennett
Assigned Here
Major Charles Bennett of
Pueblo, Colo., has been assigned
to the Salem Salvation Army as
commander, succeeding Captain
R. P. Lesher who will leave in
the near future for a new post
In northern California.
The new Salem commander
has four children of school age.
He has been In Salvation Army
service for 25 years.
The annual meeting of the
Ealem army board, held Monday
night elected Leo C. Childs
chairman; Leo G. Page, vice
chairman, and R. A. Forkner,
secretary.
Captain Lesher was recogniz
ed for his servlcs during his stay
In Salem. Major Roderick Dur
ham, Portland, divisional com
mander for Oregon and southern
Idaho was in attendance.
Lebanon Electric
Service Restored
Lebanon Despite high vel
ocity winds and ice and snow,
everyone has electric service re
stored except in a few isolated
spots, according to Kenneth
Sims, manager of Mountain
States Power company in Leb
anon.
Service crews and linemen
near exhaustion from constant
battle with wind, Ice and snow,
were hampered by drifts and
fallen trees.
While the storm was at Its
greatest Intensity, power men
Avere cutting loose live wires
Priority was given to main
transmission lines. When trans
mission and feeded lines were
repaired, attention was set up
on repairs to lines supplying
large groups of customers.
Reconstruction work for serv
ice to individuals was complet
ed later.
La Grande Armory
To Be Dedicated Feb. 4
La Grande, Ore., Jan. 17 (U.R)
La Grande's new armory will
be dedicated Feb. 4, the commit
tee in charge announced today
Included on the program are
talks by Maj. Gen. Thomas E
Rilea, adjutant general of Ore
gon, and Brig. Gen. Harold Mai-
son, superintendent of the Ore
gon state police.
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described by postal authorities
as a "quiet sort of man," fired
five bullets into Inspector James
Thompson, 55, and beat Inspec
tor J. J. Shear, 34, on the head
with the pistol butt.
From his bed, Shear told pos
tal authorities that he and
Thompson caught the janitor
robbing the mails shortly be
fore midnight.
Shear said he and Thompson
had been Investigating thefts
at me post oince lor four or
five months. Sunday night, he
said, they "planted" a test let
ter and concealed themselves
in the office until they saw Tay
lor take it.
ine two inspectors, accom
panied by Assistant Postmaster
Roscoe Keenan, confronted Tay
lor and accused him of the theft
Authorities said the janitor at
first denied it, then asked per
mission to get a drink of water.
Instead, they said, he reached
under the stamp counter and
seized a .45 caliber government
pistol. The two postal inspec
tors were unarmed.
Taylor apparently emptied the
gun at Thompson and Keenan
and began clubbing Shear with
the butt. Authorities said that
Shear was beaten so severely
that the wooden butt plate of
the gun was smashed.
Keenan fled from the build
ing, and while Shear was un
conscious, Taylor got another
gun from the money order de
partment. When Shear regained
consciousness, the janitor tried
to shoot him, but the gun mis
fired.
Shear and Taylor grappled
and suddenly the Janitor went
limp. He was dead when Keen
an returned with Sheriff C. T,
West and local police.
Shear, reported in serious con
dition, lapsed into unconscious
ness at the hospital but recov
ered and told authorities he had
wrested the second gun from
the janitor and had struck him
when Taylor suddenly went
limp.
Sheriff's deputies said the post
oince Bore signs of a terrific
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Six-Day Gas
Well Fire Dies
Elk City, Okla., Jan. 17 U.R
stubborn gas well fire, flam
ing for six days despite the ef
forts of professional firefighters,
went out of its own acord Mon
day.
The blaze at Shell Oil Co.'s
Reynolds-Hubbard No. 1 well In
the rich Elk City oil field, died
only a few hours before a crew
of oil well fire fighters was
scheduled for the second time
to blast it out of existence.
There was no official explana
tion immediately for the self -extinguishing
of the fire.
The flames, which had shot
200 feet in the air for nearly a
week, began to die down dur
ing the night. Early in the morn
ing they dwindled to 50 feet,
and finally disappeared altogether.-
The fire-fighters, who made
an unsuccessful attempt to snuff
out the sky-searing blaze, held
off their preparations for a
second nitroglycerin blast as
they watched the flames edge
closer to earth.
M. M. Kinley, head of the In
ternationally known crew of oil
well fire fighters, had said high
pressure water lines would be
pushed into the heart of the fire
before detonating the nitro
charge.
The fire, five miles southeast
of here, started when the well
blew out and a friction spark
ignited the 40,000,000 cubic feet
of natural gas which flows
daily. -
Stroble Killing
'Unthinking'
Los Angeles, Jan. 17 UJ9 A
psychiatrist testified Monday
that Fred Stroble was in an un
thinking panic when he killed
six-year-old Linda Joyce Glu
coft.
Dr. Victor Parkin testified at
the 67-year-old grandfather's
murder trial that Stroble was
thinking deliberately when he
lured the girl into a bedroom
But Parkin said Stroble was
panicked when she screamed,
lost the power of deliberation
and murdered her without pre
meditation.
Dr. Edwin McNeil, a prosecu
tion witness, testified under de
fense cross-examination that
Stroble was capable of both in
tent and deliberation when he
killed the child.
Parkin was the final defense
witness.
Prosecutors Adolph Alexander
and Fred Henderson said they
will demand the gas chamber
for Stroble, 67, accused of
choking, hacking, beating and
stabbing the tiny girl to death
when she resisted his drunken
advances.
The case was expected to go
to the jury of 10 women and two
men some time this week.
Hatfield to Speak
Instead Portlander
Silverton The speaker, E. B
McNaughton, previously an-
for the Thursday 7 o'clock Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce din
ner at St. Paul's Catholic school
finds it impossible to make the
trip.
Ronald Wood, chairman of
the affair when the junior first
citizen will be announced, stat
ed that Mark Hatfield of the
Willamette university faculty
will be the featured speaker and
will discuss the topic: "The
Hoover Report."
Ted Lovelace of Albany, Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce dis
trict vice president, will present
the first-citizen award to the
honor guest
John Middlemlss Is chairman
of the ticket committee.
Amity Schools Closed
Amity Amity schools were
closed Monday and may contin
ue to be closed for a day or
two because of bad driving con
ditions due to deep snow on side
roads. The snow fall here early
Sunday morning was the largest
amount that has fallen in one
night since the storm started
battle. Blood was spattered on
the floor, around the mail sort
ing cage and on mail bags.
Trainer Crashes in Street Flame still twirls from this
Air Force training plane which crashed and burned in a
Long Beach, Calif., street, killing the pilot and one other
crew member. Three were injured. The plane clipped a
house top, then hit two automobiles as it crashed on the
street. One of the cars is at extreme right. (AP Wire-photo)
Everybody Talks About Public
Debt But Few Understand It
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Jan. 17 VP) Everybody talks about the public
debt. But what is it and how
The debt is money owed by
it to meet expenses.
When for any reason its income mainly from taxes is less
than its expenses, the govern
ment borrows to pay the bills,
It borrows by selling bonds
or other securities 10 indivi
duals, banks, insurance compa-
es, corporations.
It pays interest on almost ev
ery penny borrowed. The debt
now is around ?237 muion, tne
interest is around $5 billion a
year.
Depending on the deal made
when the mony is borrowed, the
government must pay it aU bacK
sometime, from 90 days to , 30
years.
This public debt started In
1790, just after the government
began. Until recent years it was
never much. For example:
By 1917, Just before World
War I, the debt was not mucn
mnr (Vinn nno billion dollars.
By Aug. 1919 It had jumped to
$26 billion.
That's because the govern
ment had to borrow to pay for
the shooting World War 1.
Between 1919 and 1930 gov
ernment income was bigger than
its expenses. It used the differ
ence to oav off some of the debt,
So the debt, which was $26
billion in 1919, was down to $16
billion in 1930.
Then came the depression
The government's income drop
ped because millions of people's
taxable income dropped.
Nevertheless, to get the
wheels going, to create jobs,
such as through WPA, the gov
ernment spent billions beyond
its income.
That meant borrowing billions.
The debt, down to $16 billion
in 1930, rose to $48 billion by
June 1940. when the defense
program started and the gov
ernment poured out more bor
rowed billions.
By Dec. 7, 1941 after a year
of defense spending and just as
we entered World War II the
debt was up to $61 billion.
To pay for World War II, the
government had to borrow as it
never did before. By Feb. 1946
the debt reached a peak of $279
billion.
In the years after 1946, when
government income was greater
than expenses, the government
paid off some of the debt. As
noted, it's down to around $257
billion now. But
This year and next together,
the government figures, its ex
penses will be $10 billion great
er than its Income.
To make up the difference,
the government will have to
borrow 10 billion, increasing the
public debt by that much more.
The government does its bor
rowing this way:
V 5 t" i .. SSL"- h -iiln 4
did it get that way?
the government which borrowed
1. Treasury bills. This is
when the government needs
money in a hurry. The money
borrowed on these bills must be
paid back in 90 days. Interest
rate: about one per cent.
2. Certificates of indebtedness.
This must be repaid in a year.
Interest: about 1V per cent.
3. Treasury notes. This mon
ey must be paid off in one to
five years. Interest: about 1
per cent.
4. Long-term bonds. Payable
in 25 to 30 years. Interest: about
2.3 per cent.
5. Unmarketable securities.
Savings or war bonds. Repay
able in 10 years or some other
fixed date. Interest: about 2.58
per cent.
(No. 5, once bought, can't be
resold by you to anyone. Nos.
1 to 4 can be resold.)
6. Special issues. The gov
ernment borrows from various
government trust funds, such as
social security in which money
has been collected by special
taxes to pay old-age pensions
and so on. The government pays
such funds interest of 1 'A to 4
per cent.
7. Miscellaneous Items. Under
this the government borrows in
various ways. For instance, it
can borrow from the interna
tional bank and monetary fund.
It pays no Interest on this.
Why doesn't the government
do its borrowing on one way
only, say by selling only 25-
year bonds?
Because treasury experts think
it's better to have several kinds
of debt, payable at different
times. The government would
be in a fix if all its debts came
due on one day.
Woodburn The Womens" Mis
sionary Society of Presbyterian
church will meet at the church
Wednesday afternoon at 2:30
o'clock. Mrs, Alice Hughes will
preside and all women of the
church are Invited.
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New Silo on
Kleman Farm
A silo for farms with four to
six cows has just been put into
use by Max Kleman and his sons
in the Keizer district north of
Salem.
The Kleman family is handy
with tools and build most of
their equipment and buildings
themselves. The proof of the
family's skill is well demonstrat
ed in the newly built silo.
The structure is seven feet in
diameter and 23 feet tall. Staves
are one by four flcoring. The
hoops which hold the structure
were prefabricated by use of a
pattern and a band saw. Scrap
pieces of pine lumber made the
12 bands. Kleman took no
chances on the strength of the
wooden bands and added a 'Ax
2-inch strap iron band just un
der the first six bands from the
ground up. These steel bands
gave adequate strength for grass
and legume silage.
The bill of materials for Kle-
man's 7x23 silo read something
like this: 700 feet of flooring for
staves, 700 feet of scrap pine for
prefabricated bands, galvanized
eight-penny box nails, three-
ply plywood for door, steel for
reinforcing bands and a yard
and a half of concrete for the
base.
Total cost for materials was
about $125. The silo will store
over 30 tons of corn or grass
silage.
Intallation Ceremonies
Amity Installation ceremo
nies scheduled for Amity lodge
No. 67 and Industry Rebekah
lodge, Tuesday evening by an
installing staff from Dayton, has
been cancelled until weather
conditions improve. The cere
mony scheduled for Dayton last
Friday night, by the Amity staff
was also called off due to the
storm.
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The friendly Southern Pacific
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Johnson Editorial Quoted
By Army Navy
The Army Navy Journal in its
View the News," has again quoted from a Capital Journal
editorial.
The quotation found in the December 7, 1949, issue of the serv
ices' national magazine concerns policies of Secretary of Defense
Johnson and is from an edi-'
torial "Johnson Boasts of De
fense Cut" in the December 12
issue of the Capital Journal.
Opening with the statement
that Secretary of Defense John
son is talking more and more
like a presidental hopeful, the
editorial in its second paragraph
notes that at the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers con
vention Johnson pointed out
that he and President Truman
were deserving of support for
the administration's financial
policies,
As it continues the editorial
told of Johnson's cut in expen
ditures as told to the conven
tion and then points to the fact
that Russia s increased military
strength serves to weaken that
of the United States.
The quotations in "The Edi
tors View the News" are taken
from paragraphs six and eight
of the Capital Journal and the
sections as quoted read:
"Salem, Oregon, Journal
'Secretary of Defense Louis
Johnson can take a bow for his
proposed economies providing
those economies have not weak
ened the nation's defenses. . . .
Johnson could be more effective
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