U.S. Dollars Bolster Fight
In Italy on Slipping Reds
Rome, Feb. 21 () Italy is winning her fight against com
munism despite the worst over-population, the greatest unem
ployment and the lowest average income in western Europe.
The Red leadership has played and lost its two best cards
labor control and the general strike. Anti-communist opposition
is moving ahead with a program
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on Silverton council.
Dickerson on
-Council Again
Silverton, Feb. 21 Cliff H,
Dickerson is back on the city
council by appointment of May
or Errol Ross. He formerly
served as mayor.
The announcement was made
at a special meeting of the coun
cil Monday night together with
that of Glenn Briedwell to the
planning commission to succeed
I. B. Alfred, who refused to serve
after the expiration of his term.
Assistance of the state high
way department in rebuilding
the James street bridge was
asked by resolution. The state
will be asked to contribute
$15,000 with the city having ear
marked $7000 for this purpose
and will raise another $4000.
Re-zohing of a portion of Wa
ter and First streets and Jersey
and Main streets was asked in
a petition presented by Mahlon
Hoblitt. Some of the area is in
the commercial zone and the re
mainder residential.
The council, upon request of
the chamber of commerce, ac
cepted an offer of $40 for the
parking meter take for March
IS to cooperate with merchants
in the annual spring opening.
The amount fixed will mean a
slight loss to the city.
Mayor Ross announced that
bids for the new addition to the
city hall would be opened at the
March 6 meeting of the council.
'Sfromboli' Offered
Without Opposition
Lebanon The controversial
Italian movie, "Stromboli" star
ring Ingrid Bergman, encoun
tered no organized opposition
when it opened Sunday at the
Park theater. No one knew it
Was coming.
Matinee goers were handed a
thange of program by Theater
Manager Ben Adams, who, up
until Sunday, had advertised an
other attraction. The theater
marquee was revised to "Strom
boli" that morning, however, and
by night throngs of curious pa
trons were crowding the thea
ter. The picture was slated to run
through Tuesday.
of currency stabilization and
postwar reconstruction which
has gone far to wipe out the
hopelessness and economic chaos
in which communism breeds.
James D. Zellerbach, Ameri
can ECA chief in Italy, says he
does not believe the communists
could even come close now to
tying up the country with a nation-wide
strike or putting any
major industry out of operation.
Up to a year ago the commu
nists could, and did
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Zellerbach said the European
recovery program, which has
poured aid into Italy at the rate
of almost $800 a minute, had
been a major factor in the sap
ping of communist strength. He
said although beating commu
nism was not the main purpose
of the ERP, it was "definitely
an important by-product.
Italy's communist party claims
two million members, although
previously the party had admit
ted declining membership in the
two years since it was frozen
out of the government. Actual
party strength probably is far
below two million.
The party's biggest weapon
was its control of the five mil
lion strong Italian General Con
federation of Labor (GCIL).
That is crumbling.
The communist-led nationwide
general strike wore out its
force a year agoi The commu
nists threw everything they had
into it in July 1948 after party
leader Palmiro Togliatti was
shot at the door of the chamber
of deputies,
While he was recovering, his
party loosed general strikes so
violent that opponents called
them a communist "rehearsal for
revolution." Twenty - one per
sons were killed and more than
200 injured in rioting before the
situation was brought back into
hand by tough tactics of riot-
trained police of Minister of In
terior Mario Scelba.
Never after that were the com
munists able to muster as much
strength.
Italy still has two million un
employed. Her population is
increasing faster than emigra
tion carries off the surplus.
The average earned income is
only $4.50 a week half the av
erage in other western European
countries. But currency has held
its value,
Zellerbach said employment
has made greater gains than
show. "More Italians are work
ing now, even though just as
many are unemployed," he said.
Italy's total population has in
creased almost four million , in
the last ten years
The average family is eating
better, too," he said. "They
still may not be eating well but
it is better than before the war."
The Italian is beginning to feel
this recovery. It is close to his
pocketbook, and to his way of
life.
"It has given him hope.
Zellerbach said, "and that has
had a strong influence upon his
political ideas."
Rev. Mann Speaker
Hopewell Rev. R. C. Mann
superintendent of the United
Brethren churches of the Wash
ington - Oregon conference, was
guest speaker at the Hopewell
E. U. B. church Sunday. Mrs.
Mann accompanied him here
from Portland.
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East Salem School Already
Feels Enrollment Pressure
East Salem. Feb. 21 A special guest speaker for the February
meeting of the Mother's club of Washington school Thursday was
Superintendent of Schools Frank Bennett. He spoke of the need
for more school rooms in the system using charts with statistics
that prove this need.
The new Washington school
need could be readily understood
by the mothers present, when
even the music room must be
used for a class room the growth
of the community changing to
require it in just a few months
between the time the building
was planned and erected.
A play, "Valentine Rivals"
was given by the Camp Fire
Girls under the direction of the
leader, Mrs. Don Goodman.
Lunch was served by the fifth
grade mothers with Mrs. P. H.
Brydon as chairman. Fourth
grade mothers will be hostesses
in March.
At the business meeting with
Mrs. Cleo Keppinger president,
presiding, mothers voted to spon
sor the latest play by' the Salem
Civic Players. Several mothers
were present for their first meet
ing.
Auburn The monthly meet
ing of the Mothers club was
held at the school house Friday
afternoon. Howard Pyfer, repre
senting the health department
was guest speaker, and used a
moving picture film on teeth.
These pictures are being shown
in preparation for the dental
clinics to be held in March. They
will include pre-school children,
three to six, and include those
of the first and second grades.
Plans were discussed for the
rummage sale March 16. Mrs. S.
W. Burris is general chairman,
and the children of the school
will be asked to help in the
bringing of articles for the sale. .
Half of the proceeds will be
turned in to the student fund of
the school.
Arthur Myers, principal of
the school, reported Auburn's
share of the paper drive funds
as $13.36. Mrs. Glenn Laferty's
roopi won the attendance award
this month. Hostesses for the so
cial hour were Mrs. Harold
Bressler, Mrs. Elwin Pierce and
Mrs. Arlo McLain.
The February meeting of the
Edina Lane home extension unit
will be held Friday at the
YWCA social hall. Meeting
starts at 1 and Eleanor Trindle
will give the demonstration on
"Giving Home Sewing a Pro
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be Mrs. F. D. Thompson, Mrs,
H. C. Saalfeld and Mrs. Wallace
Guthrie.
Merry Minglers will meet
Thursday afternoon in the home
of Mrs. Leonard Malm on Sil
verton road.
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Liz Taylor, Screen Star, to Wed
Nick Hilton, Hotel Heir, in May
Hollywood. Feb. 21 (U.R) Luscious Liz Taylor, curvaceous 18-
year-old screen star, will marry hotel heir Conrad Nicholson
(Nick) Hilton, Jr. May 6 in a "big church wedding," her mother
announced today, but the actress is disappointed because her an
nouncement party has been spoiled.
"Elizabeth wanted to surprise
the girls, poor little thing," said
Mrs. Francis Taylor. "We're
having a tea tomorrow afternoon
and she wanted to surprise
everybody , but Mr. Hilton in
New York let it nut to some
columnists. He asked.the column
ists to wait a couple of weeks,
but they didn't."
Miss Taylor broke her engage
ment to William D. Pawley, Jr.,
several months ago, and pre
viously was reported engaged to
army football star Glenn Davis.
Her name also was linked ro
mantically with Howard Hughes,
but her mother said there was
nothing to that.
' Mrs. Taylor said Conrad and
her daughter have been "going
steady since about Christmas.
"They liked each other right
from the word 'go,' ' she said.
"They're so happy. Elizabeth
liked Conrad from the moment
she saw him, but she didn't want
much publicity on it because
every time she went out with
somebody, it was written up so
much."
Mrs. Taylor said Elizabeth in
vited "20 of her girl friends,
including actress Jane Powell,
to the announcement tea today.
She said they haven't decided on
the church yet but will start
making arrangements shortly.
Young Hilton, 23 is in the
hotel business with his father and
will work in Los Angeles, Mrs.
Taylor said.
"He doesn't mind her being
in pictures, so there's no conflict
there," she said.
She said Conrad met Miss
Taylor on the Paramount lot
after asking a friend. Pete Free
man, son of a Paramount exec
utive, to introduce them.
Wind-Borne Radioactivity
Might Have Staggering Effect
Chicago, Feb. 21 (U.B An atomic scientist envisages scorched
earth warfare on a staggering scale with wind-borne radioac
tivity from carefully-placed hydrogen bomb blasts.
Harrison S. Brown of the University of Chicago said that if
the hydrogen bomb works, radioactivity from it could kill every
living thing in an area 1,500-
miles wide and 3,000 miles deep.
"If the hydrogen bomb
works," Brown said, "it is easy
to visualize a series of hydro
gen bomb explosions carried
out along a north-south line at
about the longitude of Prague,
Czechoslovakia.
"The radioactivity produced
by the explosions would be car
ried eastward by the winds, de-
Amity Sets Clinic
Amity A pre-school clinic
will be held at the Amity grade
school Thursday morning from
9 o clock to noon. A Yamhill
county nurse and doctor will be
in' charge, assisted by members
of the Woman's Civic club who
are sponsoring the clinic. Cards
are being sent to parents of pre
school age children.
club will meet Thursday at 1
o'clock in the home of Mrs. R.
H. Ballard, 290 Evergreen avenue.
stroying all life within a strip
1,500 miles wide extending from
Leningrad to Odessa and 3,000
miles deep, extending from
Prague to the Ural mountains.
After the radioactivity passed
over the Urals, Brown said, it
would begin losing intensity.
By the time it crossed the Paci
fic to the west coast of North
America, he said, it would be
harmless.
The United States could be
attacked in a similar manner.
Brown said.
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Price Support
Meets Dated
Government farm price sup
port programs, now in operation
or proposed, will be discussed at
a series of meetings throughout
the state in late February and
March, Robert W. Schmidt,
chairman of the Oregon State
Grange agricultural committee,
announced this week.
The public will be invited to
the meetings, which are being
called as a result of action taken
at the last State Grange meet
ing. Delegates refused to take a
stand on the Brannan plan and
recommended instead that the
State Grange sponsor a series of
conferences for discussion of
that and other farm programs.
Vern Livesay, Portland for
mer member of the State Grange
agricultural committee, will pre
sent the Brannan plan at the
meetings. The agricultural act
of 1949 will be discussed by Jay
Wescott, state PMA f ieldman.
Ben Buisman, editor of the Ore
gon Grange Bulletin, will ex
plain the National Grange farm
program. Discussion from the
floor will be invited.
Initial meeting will be at Sa
lem February 17, in the Dairy
Co-op plant auditorium. The fol
lowing day, a southern Oregon
meeting will be held at the
courthouse in Medford.
Other meetings have been
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Dayton, Ore., Feb. 21 Grade
school bonds in the amount of
$249,000 were approved 203 to
90 at a special election of the
school district Monday. The
bonds will be used for the con
struction of a new grade school
building located west of Dayton
near the present high school.
Award of construction con
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possible, probably late April or
early May. The building will be
of frame construction with ce
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