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4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, January 27, 1950
Sheldon Sackett Rides Again
Our old friend and former Salemite, Sheldon Sackett,
whom the San Francisco newspapers usually refer to as
the "radio and newspaper tycoon," is again in the linelijrht,
and on his triannual binge and favorite occupation of buy
ing or contracting to buy or promising to establish numer
ous radio stations and newspapers. At any rate he is adept
at securing free publicity.
Three years ago he was optioning and in some cases pur
chasing numerous newspapers and was on the way to estab
lish a grandiose chain of "librul" newspapers, also radio
stations, throughout the western coast to put out of busi
ness the old established press, but outside of a radio sta
tion or two the scheme died abornin', since then he has
been hibernating.
But a couple of weeks ago he came to life and started a
weekly tabloid in Oakland. Then he bought a radio sta
tion in Seattle. Then his three bank accounts were attach
ed to recover a $25,000 loan. Then the columnist of the
San Francisco Chronicle said, "Sheldon Sackett, the Pied
mont typhoon (and big J. Roosevelt backer) is about to
make a romantic come-back from his recent divorce; the
next Mrs. S. will be Liz Worthington, who talke like Tal
lulah Bankhead, but looks better."
Now it is announced in an Oakland dispatch that Sackett
has purchased the building and presses of the defunct
Seattle Star for $150,000, and that he plans to publish a
daily newspaper to be called the "Seattle World," with him
self as sole stockholder except for qualifying shares, "and
to which I intend to assign the contract I have recently
concluded as an individual." He is quoted as saying fur
ther: "In acquiring this property, I took action because I have long
and consistently felt that Seattle was entitled to a modern, pro
gressive liberal and democratic form of journalism. The start
ing date will depend on the results of a very thorough study by
my associates and mo, and only then will we know whether it
will be a weekly, semi-weekly or daily of standard or tabloid
size. I intend to be in Seattle shortly after my marriage here
on January 30, and will consult with Seattle leaders about the
entire project."
Sackett took an option on the Seattle Star in 1947 but
let the option expire four months later. The newspaper
suspended publication in August, 1947, and the plant with
the exception of the presses and stereotyping machinery
was sold off, the circulation being sold to the Seattle Times.
Sackett owns several radio stations as well as the Coos
Bay Times, was formerly part owner of the Salem States
man. All hope his second Seattle venture will be more
successful than his former one.
Cities Now Want By-pass Roads
When tho state highway program was first announced
80 years ago and frequently since, every city and town
in Oregon clamored for its location on its main street,
causing many projects to be delayed by a dog-in-the-manger
attitude of city governing bodies. This is one of
the reasons why auto congestion exists in so many
communities and has complicated the auto parking and
other problems everywhere.
Thirty years ago no one foresaw the day that every
family would have a car or sometimes two and every
merchant thought that, with through traffic speeding
along his street, his future was assured. But sad ex
perience has shown that he profited little and the effort
is now to switch through traffic to by-pass roads and
eliminate it to ease all-important local traffic.
The case of Vancouver, Wn., is the latest to realize
the mistake of using its business streets for main high
ways. Its city commission has decided that it wants a
freeway to carry Pacific highway traffic around the city.
It has endorsed the state's program which would take
traffic from the Interstate bridge, angle it northeast
ward to the western boundary of the old Vancouver bar
racks, then send it north to join 'the present Pacific high
way north of the city limits. Some residential buildings
will have to be moved and a considerable amount of busi
ness property affected by the route but it's the only
solution.
The adoption of the by-pass route was vigorously op
posed by those who feared its effect on business yet
actual count shows little business materialized from
through traffic it merely creates a congestion that has
the contrary effect.
The Vancouver freeway and clover-leaf plan has been
designed to coincide with future highway developments.
Salem needs a similar bypass east of the city and it is
hoped the highway commission will materialize it shortly.
There Can Be No 'Compromise'
Should the United States keep the draft program for tho
armed forces or should the draft law be permitted to expire
in June?
This is a question the house armed services committee
is considering now. A steady stream of prominent na
tional figures has been passing before committee question
ers. Perhaps the most significant statement of those ap
pearing was that of Defense Secretary Johnson who said
the administration prefers a three-year extension of the
draft law but would go along on a compromise "standby
extension." This would provide for the mechanism to be
set up on the law books but not operating until congress
gave the go-ahead signal.
This suggested compromise is hardly any better than
no draft law at all.
If the draft has been considered necessary in tho past
few years, there certainly is nothing present in the world
today to make conscription any less necessary now.
Russia's current successes in Asia are too menacing to
permit a relaxing of defense preparations by the United
States. Stalin and his ruling cliquo have shown repeatedly
that the only force they fear Is force alone. General Her
shey, who administered the draft in the past war and still
rides herd over the young men taken into the ranks, credits
the draft with forestalling World War III. Since the na
tion's defenses are less even than in 1941, the draft can
be given some credit for at least offering the basis for a
speedy mobilizing of the country's manpower if required.
Dropping of the draft law now would bo sheer national
suicide with Russia bound and determined to conquer the
world.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Taft Gets Criticism Deleted
From Demos' T-H Act Report
By DREW PEARSON
Washington GOP Senator Bob Taft has just shown himself a
real miracle worker this time by pulling wires inside the demo-'
cratic party.
Taft, generally considered the arch-enemy of labor, would be
the last person expected to dictate a democratic report on the Taft-
Hartley act. But
BY CLARE BARNES, JRi
White Collar Zoo
that is essential
1.. V.A slirl
behind closed bSSm
doors of the sen- TLS srs
ate labor com
mittee. Though the
democrats have
the votes to say
what they please
in any senate
report, Taft
managed to milk
Drew Peanon
Taft chucked in the wastebas
ket: Regarding the Russell Manu
facturing Co. of Alexander City,
Ala., the. original report de
clares: "The trial examiners (of
the NLRB) . . . found that
the company management plan
ned and carried out an assault
on the union organizer, that the
personnel director of the com
pany hired a man to beat up
a union employee, and that the
KRISS-KROSS
Morse Believes in Doing
Things the Right Way
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Senator Wayne Morse showed up for a speaking engagement
at a Portland breakfast club the other day sporting a day's
growth of whiskers.
The senator explained that he had left his electric shaver inside
i small traveling kit, and had misplaced the key. When he got
up in the morn- t JV 1 ' '
mg again, and the road Is ex
pected to join in a genuine land
slide any day. This time the
county will have to abandon the
road or move the hill.
the vinegar out of a senate re- iocai chjef Df police, acting in
port criticizing the Taft-Hart- behalf of the company, ordered
ley law. the union organizer to 'leave
Word by word, comma by town or he would be taken out
comma the democrats gave in and mobbed.'
Jo Taft until he slashed the origi- t.It was found that a Mr. Al-
nal, 49-page report critical of ford, acting for the company,
his T-H act down to 16 pages stated to a group of company
which weren't critical at all. employees that 'he would kill
All that is now left is an out- him (the union organizer) if It
line for future investigation, took him two vears.' addine
that he had 'plenty of ammuni
tion,' that he had 'killed peo
ple' before and that he would
ing and had to
hurry off to the
meeting, he had
n o alternative
but to wear
whiskers to
breakfast.
Upon return
ing to his hotel
room, he found
the kit standing
open. Apparent
ly it wasn't ""' K,",", "
locked in the first place. A bell-
1 0$tmvj
Did you know that it takes a
giraffe 34 seconds to swim 50
feet, but that an electric eel can
cover the same distance in 14
seconds?
C c a 1 o (pronounced Seal-o)
Mohawk, the underwater swim
ming specialist who is appear-
written in a gentle Sunday
school language.
Two democratic senators, Jim
Murray of Montana and Matt do it again."
Neely of west Virginia, put up
a fight against Taft. But even Again, in the case of the
they backed down in order not Anchor-Rome Mills, the uncen-
to antagonize republican sup- sored report declared: "The
port for a $135,000 appropria- NLRB ordered the company to
tion to continue investigating cease and desist from 'instigat-
labor-management relations. ing, encouraging or assisting
The original report before physical assaults or threats of
Taft pulled out the stingers physical violence.' The trial ex-
won't be released to the press, aminer's report refers to 'the
but this column has obtained a shocking assaults upon two fe-
copy. male pickets and upon several
other male strikers.' The com-
The most important section Panv was als0 ordered to cease
i, ,, v... t-, ,ii ...i.i. and desist from procuring pistol
trade unionism in the south, and "sest management of- J t : a s e s '''ff5"
charts that "industrial union, ficials for the purpose of intimi- And they also M
ism (in the south) has lagged da"n? c? strikers." got tired oc pay
far behind other parts of the Not all anti-union activity in mg $40 to $75
countrv " lue 5UUin nas oeen so vioiem, .aW.
.
1
hop had opened it bv merelv ing at the Salem YMCA today,
sliding the lock mechanism a has made a life-long hobby of
bit to the left. timing fish and animals in wa-
Morse commented at a Salem ter. Cealo and his stopwatch
Rotary program later, "It may have traveled the world for over
be of interest to some of you 50 years timing rhinocerous,
here that I cannot even push a lions, barracuda, spiders, etc.
lock over to the left." He has compiled a pamphlet
The pun, of course, was di- showing the swimming times of
rected toward those who have hundreds of varieties of animals,
accused Morse of left-wing ideas, wild and domestic.
V,.. Toff KhneS
,m ... UMb .O.V lVtll WCCUCU UU, HIGH-
Desire for union organization tjon of ,he nonviolent practices, stores
has been successfully resisted by
a substantial number of employ
ers," declared the uncensored
version before Taft toned it
down. "Terrorism and intimi-
Taft scrutinized each word in
the report and knocked out al
most everything that displeased
datioii, often resulting in vio- h'm' For example, he deleted
Mother Nature is again cre
ating havoc on a certain hill
near Abiqua creek in eastern
Marion county.
A few years ago a portion of
tho hill gave way and tumbled
into the Abiqua, taking county
road No. 779 along with it. The
county reconstructed the road
40 feet further back from the
creek.
Now the hill has begun slid-
Marion county Republican
and Progressive parties held
their meetings simultaneously
Wednesday night at the court
house, the Republicans in one
circuit room and the Progres
sives in the other.
The inevitable "official coun
ter" tip-toed his way to each
room. He whispers there was
one more Progressive out than
the total at the GOP session.
lence, is still reported in some
cases, though this tendency i:
thought to be on the decrease
"On the other hand ... or
ganized labor feels that an em
ployer determined to resist un
ion organization can do so sue- j;.i. ii
cessfully and remain substan- management relations.
""V niHiiu uic -law, aim Uittd
an increasing number of at
torneys have developed expand
Hl BotU
ing practices advising employers cratio report which Truma
anything be
yond size 11 or
12.
Bernie Laza
rus became
aware of this
problem while
selling shoes to the army during
the war. He discovered about
3 per cent of the troops had
extra size feet.
"Why shouldn't someone cater
to these forgotten men when
peace comes?" he asked a sup-
In short, Taft struck out all P'v major.
the hostile references to the
demo-
the underlined phrases in the
following sentences: "Public
policy is committed to the pres
ervation and encouragement of
collective bargaining as a pillar
of free economy," and "the use
and effect of injunctions as a
labor-
n j i i n : - 4l. D J
r rcsiucm u ii u vnuirmun wi iiic Hvmy
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Bernie's Got the Answer
For Men With Big Feet
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) It is no joke having feet big enough to stamp
out forest fires.
And in pre-war days men with large kickers had real trouble
finding shoes to fit them.
They got a little weary of being told, "Why don't you wear
ers," "my teenie-weenies," or
"my little tootsies."
Lazarus he's a size 11 14 him
self has found even in a spe
cialty business it is commer
cially impracticable to stock
shoes larger than size 16. But
as a matter of sentiment he will
try to shoe mn with even "emperor-size"
feet.
"The only man I wasn't able
to do anything for was a fa
mous wrestler," Bernie smiled.
"He had a foot as wide as a
table."
stocked
He says there appears to be
no direct connection between
big feet and a man's own physi
cal size, race or occupation. So
far as he knows, only one of
in this field.
All this was blue-penciled by
planned to use against him in
the coming campaign.
It was like being given the
"It's a terrific idea," said the his customers is a detective.
maJr' Customer pressure has forced
Lazarus to enter the large sock
So Bernie and two friends fie'd. to"- J A ,,
launched the King-size Shoe w? had trouble getting any
Twraee HitfiiuiHciui vu to matte over-
Labor Relations board was cited ?" f eJ!f .uT.,, If .. They guaranteed to fit any gent i2ed socks because they thought
Woman, 40, Has 20th Baby
Bertram, Tex., Jan. 27 m The 20th child, a baby girl,
was born to Mrs. Enrique Fequcno, 40, here yesterday.
Her doctor said it was a record for child-braring in this
part of central Texas.
The child is the 22nd for her 49-year-old father.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Future of West Europe Setup
Depends on German 'Deal'
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
((A) PoreUn Affairs Analyat)
Twice in a generation Britain has suffered all but mortal
wounds from German aggression. It therefore is of peculiar in
terest to find the high commissioner of the British zone in Ger
many calling for the burial of hatreds and a renewal of Anglo-
German friendship.
Here are .som? ' to fire at you.
(Copyright 1950)
for proof.
the shocking case histories which
That's w h a tT
happened t h cis
other night'
when General!
Sir Brian Rob
ertson gave i
heart - to - heart
talk before the
Hamburg Over-,
seas Club. Ho
wasn't begging
for friendship
from his Ger
man audience,
'Li
DeWIU Mackrnuo
And why should these old
enemies want to be friends?
One good reason is the cost of
past wars to both of them, in
blood and destruction.
"A second good reason," said
Sir Brain, "is surely to be found
in the fact that both countries
today are menaced by a common
peril (a reference to the com
munist offensive). . . . The threat
to our security, our freedom
and our common civilization is
obvious for all to see. There
Willamette U. Fails to Live Up
To Sun-Tan, Man Surplus Talk
(Editor's Note Ann Stackhouse, 18-year-old freshman at
Willamette university, came here with her father and mother
last August. She was born in Michigan and spent virtually
all of her life there.
(It would seem that Ann will have to become reconciled
to Oregon's "unusual" climate since Coach Chester Stack
house recently sold the family residence in Coatesville, Pa.
However, the family still retains real estate holdings in Ann
Arbor, Mich.
(Her article appeared in "The Collegian.")
Bv ANN STACKHOUSE
It's not that I'm bitter, it's just that I think I've been deceived them as "my tender white kick" our hands tM now"
by my paternal parent. You see, I had planned to attend a college
in tne East, you know the kind snow, wind, sleet, and three men
to every coed. It sounded fine to me until my father started to
sell me on Oregon and Willamette.
I'd never been west of Michi-
gan. I believed him when he ance and kept waiting for the
told me that oranges grew all western sun that Bob Hope al
winter and you never lost your ways talks about in his "wea
sun tan. I believed him when he ther" jokes. This was just a
said it didn't snow. I even be- kind of Oregon "smog" and I'd
lieved him when he told me soon get started on my sun tan.
about the six men to every coed.
with a flapper between sizes 10 the market was too small," he
and 16. "J?- .
The firm had 1,000 customers fut " cu" COmplal X
. h j t ' 4V, ed to wear a standard-size sock
tomers and better than $250,000 under the arch o their fcot
turnover. which didnt make Jor comfort
Among the customers are a One hard-to-fit customer in
museum curator, a Broadway the Philippines, fearful the firm
producer, Hollywood stars, and wouldn't be in business long,
at least one governor. ordered 50 pairs of shoes at one
"The governor is Big Jim clip. Another wired to have
Folsom of Alabama," said Laza- his pair sent special delivery,
rus. "But I can't tell you the "as I can't get married until
names of the Hollywood actors, they get here."
They want to keep it a secret." Bernie has no desire to solve
He has found that many men the shoe problem of big-footed
are extremely sensitive about women.
their oversized feet. In self- "No thanks," he said, backing
conscious letters they refer to away at the thought. "We have
CapitalJJournal
but rather the need ot it in the is yet another reason of more
blunt language of a soldier.
general nature. Our world is
in the forthright question: "Can
England and Germany be
friends?" Then right at the
start of a down-to-earth talk he
stated his premise for an affir
mative answer like this:
. . . .,,,,. contracting. Man's inventions
ill..- gciii-iai B..VC ins ouujtv.v hA rrfJ rtirfn onrf tm
proved communications to such
an extent that the nations are
thrown together as it were, much
more than in the past. . . .
"England and Germany to
day live verv close one from
"Our spiritual mentors would the other and I am very clear
probably tell us that the qucs- that they should want to be
tion which I have posed is friends."
simple to answer. Englishmen Well, now, what interprcta-
and Germans are all God's chil- tion do we place on this speech?
dren and brothers. They can we have a right to assume that
be friends and should be friends, the general wasn't making an
You may feel that such an ordinary hands-across-the-s e a
answer is unpractical and un- address. Present in his audience
realistic. However, religion it- were prominent Germans. He
self is not unpractical and I undoubtedly was speaking with
believe It to be right to remcm- the authorization of his govern-
ber that the answer which the ment, and perhaps under in-
churches would give to my qucs- structions.
tion is "fundamentally right." sir Brain's talk, I take it, was
That's strong mustard, com- in effect recognition of the un-
Ing from a British soldier who doubted fact that Western Ger-
has spent some of the best years many is essential to the defen-
of his life fighting Germans. In sive system being created by
fact his speech tacitly rccogniz- Western Europe
cd that the taking of such a communist drive
position is indeed strong mus
tard. There is, as he stated,
"a somewhat long tradition of
enmity" between Germany and
England.
to meet the
To put it an
other way, Britain is maneuver
ing to gain for Western Europe
the balance of power. Germany
must be an integral part of
that set-up.
He even told me I could attend
every pre-season football prac
tice in an advisory capacity. I
trusted my father. I'd even for
given him for telling me there
was no Santa Claus.
My first disillusionment
came a week after we arrived
in Salem. It was cold. People
wore sweaters. I didn't have
any sweaters. Mine were all
back in Pennsylvania and des
tined to stay there for three
months. Next, I discovered my
"advisory capacity" during
football practice was to type
letters to sports manufacturers
and adhesive tape salesmen.
Once, I managed to sneak
to a window, during f.b. prac
tice, and glimped a score of
big bruisers racing around in
a circle trying to see which
one could fall on his face the
fastest when a whistle blew.
After this, I was satisfied to
type letters. -
School opened. Freshmen of 60 degrees temperatures and
class roll call read 138 freshmen shirt sleeve apparel. Here's the
women, 139 freshmen men. I twist. He left his treasured car
think my father counted the in my possession,
alumni for the past ten years How was I to know an engine
when he made his six-to-one es- block could freeze and crack in
timate. the tropical climate of Oregon?
Then it rained. Even in Penn- Whenever he gets that pained
sylvania it rains once in a while, look on his face at having to
but not that "Yes. I know my walk, I just suggest he ride his
hair looks like a dust cloth, and bicycle, or better yet, canoe
I don't care anymore"! kind, down the warm waters of the
Still I hkd a sort of blind ignor- Mill Stream.
And then ... Do you know
what it did? It snowed. Oh
yes it did. I saw it. Big, beau-'
tiful, fluffy, snowflakes.
Not only did it snow, but I
discovered a peculiar warp In
the personalities of Western
boys. They had been frustrat
ed in their childhood by lack
of snow and, therefore, could
not express their normal
snowball throwing tendencies.
These tendencies held over
into late teens and early twen
ties and usually were respon
sible for a good wet face full
of snow almost any hour of
the day.
I poured out all my sun tan
lotion. I even stopped writing
to my friends to avoid their
sneers.
However, this story has an
ironic ending: ,
My father made an extended
trip to the East. While there, he
sent back gay post cards telling
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