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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 31, 1950
An Atrocious January
The present cold snap at a time when rose bushes are
usually trimmed and camellias in bloom, has Salem, the
Willamette valley and most of Oregon in the deep freeze
class, perhaps another gift from Major General Vaughan,
that needs congressional investigation. The thermometer
has dropped down to the lowest level since in December,
1919, when similar temperatures were recorded and wide
spread damage to fruit trees resulted.
The official McNary airfield station reports a low of 10
degrees below zero, some 6 or 8 degrees lower than ther
mometers in the city itself recorded. But the airport is
located in a draw some distance from the city and consist
ently has lower temperatures in winter and higher in
summer than Salem averages.
The same' condition exists in Portland and draws a
month-end protest from the Oregonian, which remarks
from a publicity standpoint:
"When an airport minimum reading is 8 degrees above, read
ings In the city proper, even in the northeastern suburbs, may
be several degrees warmer. But the temperature which is offi
cially recorded, and publicized, is that of the airport. Whatever
the advantage may be to the weather bureau, in restricting its
readings to the airport, this scarcely concerns a great city of
the northwest which finds such service inadequate to its inter
ests. This raises the question of whether it is sound economy to
record temperatures not truly representative of the city proper
and give these--improperly? nationwide publicity as Port
land's very own."
It will be some time before an estimate can be made of
the damage of the freeze, but we have the 1919 record to
go by. Then the record cold of below zero killed off many
of the valley's fruit and nut trees as well as cane fruits.
The 10 degree below zero temperature was fatal to peach,
apricot, sweet cherry trees and-did irreparable damage to
some apple, pear, prune and walnut trees, damage from
which they never recovered. Many old trees were so irre
pairably injured that they had to be pulled out and new
ones planted and in some instances the owners after
wards realized that the entire orchard should have been
replanted at once.
Of course, much depends on the condition of the trees
and their vigor, upon the thawing conditions, whether
gradual or sudden as is usually the case with winter killing
from freeze. In 1919 however, there had been a mild fall
and the sap was still In the trees and the sunshine split
the bark. We will have to wait and see what proportion
survives.
In Salem the principal loss will be to residential gardens.
A temperature of 15 degrees above is usually fatal to camel
lia blooms, but zero weather is fatal to camellia plants. In
1919 the 17-year-old camellia trees at the state hospital
were killed to the ground, but they came up from the roots
and are now much larger than before the freeze.
Zero temperatures are fatal to many shrubs, such as
Mexican orange, Portuguese laurel, daphne and some ever
greens, natives of tropical countries. Many rose bushes
are also killed below the grafts though the briar roots
survive. Many other shrubs will also have to be replanted,
and they will be.
Shivering temperatures have prevailed since January
13, when the blizzard struck. But we have had fresh snow
every day but four in January, a total of 35.8 inches, a rec
ord for one month in Salem.
It has been a most disagreeable month, with every vari
ety of weather winter can offer, blizzards, gales, fog, rain,
soggy and powder snow, sleet, silver thaw, and then slush,
have contributed their misery to a country used only to
alternate rain and sunshine. We are glad it is over and
wait for the ground hog to summon spring. The weather
man is on a strike.
The Quiet Before the Announcement
There is a strange quiet preceding a decision by the pres
ident as to whether or not the United States will build an
H-bomb.
The quiet docs not indicate a lack of interest in what
the decision will be. Nor does it cover the deep concern
over the consequences of putting the nation's top scientists
to work figuring a way to put together a bomb 1000 times
more powerful than the A-bomb.
The usual loud-mouths in congress have been strangely
silent about the momentous question before Truman. The
flag-wavers have been too impressed with the consequences
of a "go-ahead" signal to break into a patriotic demonstra
tion. The leftists have been rather stunned by the terror
of the decision that puts aside all consideration of cradle-to-grave
programs with a weapon that would have con
sideration for absolutely nothing on earth not even votes.
As mentioned by General Wedemcyer, Sixth army com
mander who was in Salem last week, the next war, if it
comes, will make a potential battleground of everyone's
backyard.
David Lilienthal, atomic energy commission chairman,
is correct in his implied complaint against the H-bomb as
being a poor use of the nation's resources, scientific skills
and money. But, regretably, the question of the H-bomb
has now resolved itself into the mere question of survival
of the nations believing in the freedom of the individual.
Those western democratic nations would be helpless if
Soviet Russia were to put out an ultimatum a few years
hence that the western democracies would have to give into
communist rule or be blasted by H-bombs monopolized
solely by Russia.
Trend of events since World War II still verifies the con
sidered opinion that only United States monopoly of the
A-bomb kept Russia in check. With the Soviets now build
ing a supply of A-bombs, the period of freedom from at
tack because of a monopoly is no longer present.
As reluctant as Truman was to order the A-bomb used
against Japan, the president obviously has an even greater
reluctance to make the same type of decision only of even
greater importance. When the decision is made, he should
make it publicly to the people of the nation who are re
spectfully quiet during the waiting period.
BYH. T. WEBSTER
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KRISS-KROSS
Kiss on Willamette Campus
Was Absolutely Shocking
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Hollywood produces many passionate love scenes, but none
quite as electrifying as the one between a jpair of Willamette
university love-makers on the porch of Lausanne hall last week.
A Willamette male was escorting his blonde co-ed sweetheart
to the girls' dormitory just a few minutes before Lausanne's
dead- I 1
men s dormitory at Willamette:
"Unless all visitations are of
the utmost importance and the
continuance of life in the bal
ance all frequenters intent upon
discourse with the inmates of
this enclosure will please reserve
such intercourse until after
February 3, by reason of prepar
ation for final examinations."
We'll bet a bucket of grade-A
snow that those fellows won't
flunk any vocabulary tests.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Truman Gets Rugged Pointers
From Rep. Dingell on 'Economy'
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Before President Truman cut loose against tax
evaders in his message to congress he got some rugged pointers
from Representative John Dingell of Michigan.
"The costliest 'economy' move ever made by congress was
when it lopped 7,000 internal revenue agents off the payroll two
years ago," Din- "
gell told the1?1!, tav"-' i j reading Einstein and the Smyth
President. "This j report.
was an open in-jan..., IJ Douglas, incidentally, said
vitation to dis-""!,? it""! that ne "ad Pondered long over
honest taxpay-lt ft jf j the hydrogen bomb and had
ers to cheat the ? j V- 1 come to the conclusion we must
government. ItjV'lM make the bomb.
"We saved! If,' J I ft Meanwhile, Chairman Lilen
$20,000,000 by J VlJM A- thai will soon be available for
that cut, but itJl!Y y g i a lecture tour in opposition to
cost the govern- i$B&Mamanj9 the H-bomb,
ment about Miners Oiumble
$600,000,000 in A $33-a-week cut in wages
uncollected taxes. In other and a sick Industry are back of
words, for every dollar saved by the swelling chorus of miners'
the penny-pinchers in congress grumbles against their onetime
we lost $30 in tax frauds." god, John L. Lewis.
Dingell added that most of The revolt against the aging
the discharged agents have been Lewis is so strong in Penn
rehired, "but we are still pay- sylvania and West Virginia that
ing for the mistake." As a re- his old crony, CIO President
suit of the cut, he said, some phij Murray, could snatch the
300,000 cases of tax frauds, miners away from him. Murray
many of which were close to js a former UMW lieutenant who
completion, had to be dropped broke with Lewis,
or pigeonholed by the internal The miners are chiefly up in
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
revenue bureau.
Millikin Joke
Solemn - looking Senator Eu
gene Millikin of Colorado is
arms over the three-day week
which reduces their take-home
pay from $78 a week to $45,
but the three-day week is
10 p.m
line. The cou
ple paused out
side the front
door for brief
parting cere
monies. It was one of
those slushy
nights, and the
L u s a n n e hall
porch was cov
ered with a
sloppy and very ""' Ko,lu' ''
wet substance commonly known
as melting snow.
The man, being a gallant sort
rnnwrvative republican but he desperate move by Lewis and
delights in cracking sly jokes the operators whom he curses
about the National G.O.P. lead- in Public and talks with in pri-
ership vate to stave off anarchy and
A few days ago, Senator Mil- a.cu,t-,tha,t price war m an
likin was discusing a big hue aiIlnin1du(stry- .
and cry in his home state of Coal i"?dust S"knef
Colorado over the proposed .Studle,s J the. bureau of
Echo Park Dam. One citizens' mines-locked up in the files so
group complained the dam lheJ wm ,be11 1,mtheLe
would cover up "dinosaur beds." name '. ?a'n bat"es- reYfal
.... ,. , , ..., . how slck the industry is. Pri-
., Auh ?e1 S'?.hed M'i' A"' vately, the bureau expects to see
"if the beds aren t covered, the a return of tne host towns that
republicans will come in and haunted the coal areas in the
uig up uie uuues ul a uinu&aui 30'e
The Help-Wanted Ad Said: "Splendid opportunity
for advancement"
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Language Alone Won't Bridge
Gap Between Gorilla and Man
By HAL BOYLE
New York W The late Arthur Brisbane used to contend
that if you sat a couple of apes down at two typewriters they
eventually would write all the books in the British museum.
So far this remains only a theory, as no one yet has managed
to keep an ape interested in a typewriter long enough to writ
a short story fori
One of the requirements of
and make him the national chair
man."
"Peace Offensive"
The state department, Pen
The trouble with coal is:
1. Over capacity.
2. High cost.
3. Competition from natural
of lad, allowed his girl friend to faculty members at WU is that
stnnrf nnrinr the eaves aeainst n tests be given during "dead
c- U11C1I31VC 11 U III 11
the building, while he stood " which the Russians would pre-
ankle-deep in slush.
The girl accidentally leaned last week- anyhow. It may be
against a loose connection in OI some comiort to you guys ana
a light switch. When her escort 8als in his class to know that
planted a goodnight kiss on her said professor has been severly
lips, the results were most sur- reprimanded by the higher-ups
prising. n the school administration.
The combination of her lean- . .
ing against the light switch and A person who identifies him-
his wet feet caused a spark of self as "Snowbound" asks "why
electricity to jump from Up to not get Ellis Cooley out In his
lip. straw hat to bring rain and get
The girl wasn't surprised that rid of this snow?" It might be
her date kissed her she was worth a try at that. Cooley's
shocked. wearing of a straw hat is white
man's most effective approach
Sign on door in Baxter hall to the rain dance.
tagon and atomic commission gas and oil.
have been alerted to a "peace In the war years, when Nazi
offensive" from Moscow, in subs were sinking oil transtMrts.
the railroads used 135.000.000
tend to agree to international tons of bituminous coal a vear
control. It might come in a now the railroads have cut to
dramatic announcement from the 70,000,000 tons.
the Saturday
Evening Post.
There is an s
interesting ex
periment going
on at the San
Diego Zoo,
though, that
may in time af
ford an oppor
tunity to see if j
Brisbane was
right.
Three young gorillas are get-
1 ws .f 1
mw mi
Hal Boyle
gain by learning to talk? Get
ting right down to the blunt
truth, what have captive gor
illas got to discuss?
Suppose all three gorillas turn
out to be mental wizards, I
still can see nothing but trouble
ahead for them. If Albert learns
to spell "Africa" at the age of
3, won't he at 12 be asking why
he can't go to Yale and become
the first gorilla to win a college
degree? Boy, what a halfback
he'd be he'd make Frank Mer-
ting a chance to see if they can riwell look like a monkey.
understand a college professor.
The gorillas-Albert, Bata and chan(,e3 aR! nQ
!-.U?Zf0m.e lH1Cv- matter how educated Albert and
"7;;j Tv r. r. two Pais become, their ny
Kremlin that the U.S.S.R. had
perfected a hydrogen bomb.
The strategy behind the
In the home-heating field,
while new residences have gone
up at an amazing rate, coal
comes from Yale, and he is a re
nowned authority on anthro
poid apes.
The
campus would remain a locked
cage. Even if they learned to
shave and wear clothing it
"peace offensive" is to confuse consumption has gone down
American opinion and delay the slightly. This is because oil and
H-bomb project. The Russians natural-gas heating is being in-
may say, for example, we know stalled in new buildings, partic-
how to make the H-bomb, but ularly along the eastern sea-
for humanity's sake we won't board.
make one if you don't. A surplus ot oil from the
All this came uo at a secret middle eastern and southern
session of the National Security American fields plus the new at-
around
work prob-
And what would happen to
the San Diego Zoo then? There
would be no discipline Alberta,
His Reelection No Surprise
Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 31 VP) Andrew M. Tolmic's re
election as treasurer of his union local didn't startle any
body. Tolmie, who'll be 80 next March, first was named to the
office in 1900.
Every year since then he's been reelected by Hill City
lodge No. 58, International Association of Machinists.
MacKENIIE'S COLUMN
council at which President Tru
man made it clear that we can
not agree to any international
control plan that does not in
clude inspection.
tempt by the British to shut out
American oil have increased oil
surplus in this country.
In addition, 25,000 miles of
natural gas pipelines have been
Meanwhile, it is definitely es- aPPr0Yed by the federal power
tablished that the theory of the j
hydrogen bomb is no secret. The A" !h,s, " why, a f've-day
first "leak" from the U.S. was w.f k ln the, coal fields would
an article by John McCloy, then Plle a su"p us . f coalt ?bov
asst. secy, of war, in 1946 re- grT and lead t0 what, Le,wis
vealing we had plans for such and the operators secretly fear
hmw ti,. ..... a cutthroat price war that
for an obscure army ordnance lIlve , but ,f 0?1 ef der in age, too young really for tell Dr. Yerkes, "No, thanks,
little gorillas are anthro- ,,.,. f thom ,rao,nm
poid apes, but they don't know . .... . " ..!,
this yet. If Dr. Yerkes has his ft" . .nriS. 3 H
way, however, they will find out looen ff he can wc
- W VV lems in Algebra,
OUT UVJUJ O
The professor hopes to teach
Albert, Bata and Bouba to talk.
T ho is enifnoccfiil iVmtr will VlO
the first gorillas in history to Bata and Boubi, would spend
employ the English language, their time drafting petitions de-
Until now gorillas have been manding equal rights for gorillas
able to get anything they want- r complaining about the quality
ed out of life by grunting or of the bananas. And they would
grabbing But from here on in make ill-natured remarks about
any gorilla that really wants to the visitors and the ancestry of
get ahead in the zoo will have to the visitors. They would take
be able to make a public speech. UP swearing.
No, language alone won't
Somehow the whole experi- bridge the gulf between gorilla
ment seems a bit unfair to the and man. All the knowledge In
gorillas, who, if they were hu- the world won't make Albert
man, would still be wearing happy. And if he is as wise a
diapers. All are a year or un- gonna as l tninn ne is ne win
publication
ConflfctBetweenCoinmiesand-SH5S.J
ficient operators out of business.
Actually and only a few
kindergarten.
professor" and remain a nor-
f Tw """J"' 8 eood years in the last 25 and
West to Continue Indefinitely XSSl t were a b f th
he had merelv figured it frnm
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(W) Forelsn Affair Analyst)
Major General Frederick H. Osborn, who has resigned (ef
fective today) as U. S. deputy on the United Nations atomic
energy commission, says he believes the world is still in for a
period of trial and Americans will be deluding themselves if they
feel an easy time is ahead.
(Copyrltht IBM)
The general
has been try
ing for three
years to find tho
basis for an
agreement with
Russia on world
atomic control ,
Never having5
got close to a
solution lie now
declares:
"I do n o tl
think the Soviet
spondents a t
CrMJ
DeWItt Markfnile
out of inequalities is taking so
many forms that it can't be pin
ned down with one characteriza
tion. The most clean-cut divi
sion, of course, is the political
and economic strife between
communism and democracy the
cold war which now reaches
around the world and is swell
ing daily.
The cold war is the chief bar
rier to world peace. This is
true because communism and
democracy are uttery irreconcil
able. That's the reason General
Union will come to agreement Osborn wasn't able in three years
on the control of atomic energy to find a basis for agreement,
until they (the leaders) reassess It's the reason the United Na-
thcir relations with the world tions haven't been able to get
as a whole and decide that they together, and aren't likely to do
want to live in a cooperative so.
and friendly world." ...
So the conflict between com
This means, I take It. that munism and other ideologies
atomic control isn't the primary will continue indefinitely. Gen
consideration. World relations cral Osborn puts it mildly when
come first ln importance, ana ne says Americans win De ie-
atomic control depends on them
a thesis with which most ob
servers are likely to agree. That
hiding themselves if they feel
an easy time is ahead. Most
observers feel that the warfare
brings us bang up against the is bound to extend far beyond
troublesome question of what the present generation.
can produce "a cooperative and
friendly world.
There has been a slackening
off of the cold war in Europe.
Most people know the answer The communist offensive across
to that, but it is so disconcert
ing that they try to evade it.
The answer is that we can't have
friendship and cooperation un
til our world-wide politico-so
cial upheaval has run its course,
Europe has been halted, at least
for the time being. However,
simultaneously the conflict in
the great Asiatic theatre has
swollen to startling dimensions.
Having overrun China with its
That isn't confined to the cold vast population, communism is
war between communism and now using this as a base from
democracy. In one form or an- which to strike in many direc-
other this politico-social read- tions.
justment Is going on in every Asia may well be the decisive
thinking country. As a matter battle ground in this war of the
of fact you find it beginning to Isms, but obviously it will take
show Itself even among the many years to reach the decision,
primitive peoples. There is small prospect of
"Peace ln Our Time". "One
This struggl for tha Ironing World" is a long way off.
G us Got Warm Revenge
St. Louis, Jan. 31 (U.PJ A $400 fine and a 30-day jail sen
tence didn't bother Gus T. Andert, 45, one bit today. He
knew the taste of revenge.
Andert, who admits he has no real home, got cold just
hanging outside, so he went to the nearest fire station and
asked it he could warm himself. He was turned away.
Andert promptly made the rounds of fireboxes and turned
in five false alarms in quick succession.
Apprehended, he said that he just wanted the firemen
to know how cold it was outside. He said he not only got
even with the firemen but for 30 days he'd have a warm
place to stay.
Aga Khan Expects His Weight
In Platinum From Followers
By ROBERT BRANSON
(Unllad Prau Staff Corrtapondent)
New Delhi, India, Jan. 31 UM The Aga Khan, the fabulous
heavyweight Moslem spiritual leader, looked forwara Jubilantly
today to receiving his weight in platinum from his followers.
The aging Aga, father-in-law of Actress Rita Hayworth, esti
mated he would receive 675.000 pounds sterling ($1,890,000)
when he hits the scale again in
1954. weight matched in both dia-
When he weighed in last in monds and gold four times for a .
1946, the 220-pound Aga's total of $3,835,945.
weight was balanced in dia- The money received in the
monds. next weigh-in, he said, would be
The Aga indicated in a press spent on science instead of horses
conference, however, that he and jewelry,
has lost interest in diamonds, It will go for research, espe
even the $710,000 worth stolen cially in the field of nutrition, .
from his beautiful French wife, and for education to teach peo
the begum, in a holdup last sum- pie how to get more value out
mer. of food," the Ismaeli Moslem
Approximately half of the leader said,
diamonds now have been recov- He said his decision was
ered. But the Aga said yester- reached when he viewed the
day he was not the least bit in- widespread poverty in India,
terested. "I've been shocked to see how
"We are not going to replace thin the people of India are," the
the jewelry," the Aga said. "One Aga said.
is safer these days without jew- "It would be a crime for any
elry. I have no Interest in what one of Rita's ability and possl
the Surete National (French po- bilities to abandon her career."
lice) recover because that now the Aga said. "She expects to re
belongs to the insurance com- turn to films within a few
pany. months, when she Is completely
recovered from having her
Tht Aga, 72, has had hi baby."
And what have they got to mal ape.
Story for Shore Patrol
Portland, Ore., Jan. 31 (U,R) Portland's police station was
like a recruiting station early Monday when some 70
sailors came In to tell the shore patrol they oouldn't get
back to their base at Tongue Point, Ore.
The sailors, on week-end leave, were stranded when ice
and snow blocked transportation.
The shore patrol said it hoped to have the sailors on their
way back to duty during the day.
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