Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Thursday, March 16, 1950
New York to Nudge a Cloud
And Hope for Rain Downpour
By H. D. QUIGG
(United Preu Stiff Corrupondent)
New York, March 16 u.R) On March 22, if the heavens are
ripe, New York City will gently nudge a cloud. -It may rain.
Snow may fly.
Mayor William O'Dwyer and the city fathers came up today
with a $50,000 appropriation in a sly plan to urge rain clouds over
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new and greater efforts.
U. S. Spending
HeldTock-eyed'
The scheme of "spending our
selves rich" was termed "cock
eyed" by E. C. Sammons, presi
dent of the United States Na
tional bank of Portland as he
closed an appeal for widespread
purchase of government savings
bonds during Wednesday's
luncheon of the Salem Rotary
club, '
Sammons likened the govern
ment to a large corporation in
which the people are the stock
holders and congressmen and
senators are the members of the
board of directors. "It Is up to
you to see that they follow your
Ideas in the matter of what sort
of a government you want," said
Sammons.
During his talk Sammons urg
ed employers to cooperate with
their employes in the matter of
pay roll savings for the purch
ase of bonds. He said there were
approximately 8,000,000 persons
saving an average of $21 a month
under this program.
Sammons took occasion to ask
for support of the Hoover com
mission report which he said was
approximately 20 percent adopt
ed at this time.
Russell Tripp recently selected
by Rotary International for a
scholarship to New Zealand, ex
pressed appreciation for the ef
forts of Salem Rotarians in his
behalf.
Teacher Pay Bill
Set for April 17
Washington, March 16 VP)
The house labor committee pull
ed federal aid to education from
a day-old pigeonhole today and
set April 17 to consider a $300,
000,000 teachers' pay bill.
The vote to take up the meas
ure was 13 to 12, the same mar
gin by which the committee yes
terday shelved a senate-passed
$300,000,000 bill to help the
states with general school oper
ating expenses.
Before voting to consider the
teacher-salary proposal the com
mittee turned down a move to
go ahead with immediate study
of a bill to authorize $600,000,
000 in loans and grants for
choolhouse construction.
It also tabled an attempt to
consider a proposal for $136,
000,000 in school assistance only
for the few neediest states.
The pay bill by Rep. Burke
(D-Ohio) would provide funds
to the states to raise teaching
Itandards and provide "ade
quately paid teachers." It puts
state participation on the basis
of a minimum aid floor amount
ing to $70 per pupil per year.
But it leaves unanswered the
controversial question of letting
church and private schools share
in the aid. Like the shelved sen
ate bill, it leaves distribution of
the money up to the states in ac
tual teacher pay.
City officials decided yester
day that scientific cloud-wringing
might be one of the answers
to the city's critical water
shortage.
In a six-month "noble experi
ment," the city will sow the
seeds of cloudburst or, at least,
of April showers into every
likely lonely cloud that floats
over a 1000-square mile area
that comprises New York City's
watershed.
Mayor O Dwyer decided on
the program with the help of a
six-man advisory committee on
rain making, composed of scien
tists. The man they hired to
tickle clouds with dry ice and
silver iodide smoke is Wallace
Howell, research meteorolo
gist at the Harvard Blue Hill ob
servatory.
Dr. Howell planned to go af
ter some man-made rain or
snowfall in one week In an in
terview after the board meeting,
he said it was entirely possible
some man-made moisture might
fall next Wednesday.
Dr. Howell will command an
outfit that includes air crews,
two police department amphibi
an planes, a ground-control ra
dio station in the Catskills,
radar capable of "seeing" rain
developing in a cloud, and two
ground units with cars operat
ing silver iodide smoke generators.
Dr. Howell said he expected
to have four to 12 hours warn
ing from his weather depart
ment that the clouds are ripe
for "the art of rain stimulation."
The planes, operating from
Floyd Bennett field in New
York City, will reach the likely
clouds in about an hour Each
plane will carry about 50 pounds
of dry ice and one gallon of sil
ver iodide. The dry ice will be
crumbled in a hand-grinder to
cakes one-fourth to one-half
inch in diameter.
"You can dump dry ice into
the cloud with a kitchen cup
from a cardboard carton and it
will work," pr. Howell said.
But we will use little chutes.
Each plane will carry a gener
ator for silver Iodide, if we need
it. We'll fly above the clouds and
sow the dry ice into them."
Thus icily titillated, a proper
cloud will bestow gentle rain on
reservoir, farmland and Mrs,
Murphy's wash on the line.
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Leaves for Derby California's brilliant 3-year-old "Your
Host" received a fond farewell at Del Mar, Calif., as he de
parted for the Kentucky Derby. The horse is wearing a
bright red and green blanket presented by Del Mar track
for his victory in the 1949 Del Mar Futurity. (L to R)
Louis B. Mayer, breeder of the colt; Harry L. Daniels, train
er and William Goetz, owner. (AP Wirephoto)
Weed Control
County-wide
An order which will lead to
the setting up on a weed control
district for Marion county was
signed by members of the coun
ty court Wednesday afternoon.
The weed control project Is
on a county-wide basis, ana
will be the first such district
ever established in Marion
county.
A hearing for the purpose of
hearing arguments for and
against the proposed district was
held before the county court
Wednesday. No one appeared in
opposition to the weed control
district.
Juke Nuefelt of route 6, Sa
lem, was to be named control of
ficer of the district. An order
was being made to appoint him
to the position, and that order
will be signed late Wednesday
along with the order to establish
the weed control district.
Once the orders are signed,
official notices of the weed con
trol project will be inserted in
the newspapers. Two weeks from
the Initial publication of these
notices, the district will legally
go into operation.
The establishment of the dis
trict has been pending for sev
eral weeks. Numerous com
plaints regarding tansy ragwort
and gorce led the court to take
action on a weed control project.
tion of the Northwestern Dis
trict of the American Lutheran
Church Brotherhoods will be
held at Emmanuel Lutheran
church at Walla Walla, Wash.,
Sunday, April 10.
As the evening's entertain
ment feature, a series of colored
slides of scenery and wild flow
ers of Rocky Mountain National
Park in Colorado were shown.
Refreshments were served by
Martin Albers, Allen Yost and
Ben Ingalls.
Evergreen Chapter
Social Club Meets
Woodburn A meeting of the
social club of Evergreen chap
ter, Order of the Eastern Star,
was held following the regular
chapter meeting Monday night
with Mrs. Evelyn Morris pre
siding. Plans were made to serve a
dinner for the Royal Arch Ma
sons and their wives Saturday
evening, March 18. Mrs. Morris
will be general chairman and
the kitchen committee will in
clude Mrs. Edward Schoor, Mrs.
Marian Anderson, Mrs. Mabel
Harper and Mrs. Jess Fikan.
Mrs. Freda Burt will be in
charge of the dining room, as
Lutheran Affairs
Scheduled Soon
At-'ora The March meeting
of t..e Men's Brotherhood of
Christ Lutheran church of Au
rora was held at the church. At
the business session with Presi
dent Martin Albert presiding,
the group discussed the selec
tion of delegates to attend two
forthcoming conventions of the
Lutheran Brotherhoods of this
area.
The quarterly meeting of the
Willamette Valley area Brother
hoods, of which organization
Paul Gooding of the Aurora
chapter, is president, will be
Sunday, March 19, at Faith Lu
theran church in Portland.
Salem Heights Troop
Has Charter Review
Salem Heights It was char
ter review Monday night at the
scout office for Scout troop 19
ot salem Heights. The troop was
reregistered with fifteen boys as
scouts and nine boys in the ex
plorer troop.
Ken Hills was registered as
the scoutmaster and Harvey Pe
terson as scoutmaster of the ex
plorer troop. Troop committee
was C. F. Southwick, Floyd Mc
Clcllan, and Bill Stinson, the
committee chairman. Institu
tional representative was Earl
Ahlers. The American Legion
Post 136 sponsors both troops.
explorers registered were
Boyd Aydelott, Don Blanken
ship, Mark DeCew, Lee Peter
son, James Ponsford, Frank Vi-
Taris, John Wilbur, Gail Mc-
Glauflin, and Louis Kurth, Jr.
Scouts under the leadership of
Ken Hills were Dick Colgan
James Lawrence, Roger Colgan,
Bruce Lethin, Edwin Keech, Jim
Lehman, Jerry Walling, Wilbert
Kurth, Ronald Coon, Rodney
McClellan, Lane Olson, Glen Da
vis, Martin Southwick and Fred
Bolton.
sisted by a group of members. The annual one-day conven
One of the newest words is
"radiothermics," defined as the
"application of heat generated
by radio waves," such as is used
in molding plastics.
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Increase in
Defense Budget
Washington, March 16 VP)
The defense department today
requested a $187,142,770 In
crease in its pending $477,974,-
410 public works bill for con
struction of high priority mili
tary projects, some of them
closely guarded secrets.
This makes a total of $665,-
117,181 which the army, navy
and air force now want.
In addition, Chairman Vinson
(D., Ga.) of the house armed
services committee, instructed
the marines to submit new proj
ects one for $2,476,000 for liv
ing quarters at Quantico, Va.,
and the second for a $25,000,000
new marine depot. This depot
reportedly may be located at
Albany, Ga.
With these two new items, the
grand total would be $692,592
410.
The amended defense depart
ment request was presented to
the committee by Assistant De
fense Secretary W. J. McNeil,
comptroller.
McNeil told the committee the
amended requests a number of
which step up amounts originally
asked are mainly for research
and development, communica
tion projects as well as general
operational projects.
Hint That Days of Fabulous
Salaries for Stars Is Past
Hollywood, March 16 VP) A hint of the bitter days which have
fallen on this fabulous city was seen today in the new contract
signed by a ranking movie star.
William Bendix, long a top box-office draw, yesterday signed
a seven-year contract with RKO which pays him less than $1,
000,000. He will make 14 pic-
tures at a rate of two a year.
That is only $70,000 a picture.
A few years ago studios were
paying more than that for mere
feature players. Even writers
got that much and thought noth
ing about it.
Some stars were making
$500,000 or more per picture,
especially if they insisted on a
percentage of the' gross.
Then along came the British'
ban on American movies with
the resultant loss of foreign rev
enue; and, finally, television.
Studios have been firing help by
the thousands. The number of
players under contract has drop
ped from 742 In 1947 to 315 this
year.
Studios have been pretty
cagey lately about disclosing
stars' salaries, and maybe this
is why. Seventy thousand a pic
ture doesn't sound nearly so ex
citing as the old days, when al
most anybody could count his
weekly salary in five figures.
RKO, in a statement announc
ing the contract, said It "may
well set the pattern for future
negotiations in Hollywood."
The statement was not refer
ring to the salary level specific
ally, however. A spokesman
said it was referring to the fact
that Bendix would be paid every
week instead of on a 40 weeks a
year basis or in a lump sum as
has been customary.
Comparative salaries for other
stars weren't immediately avail
able but the word in the indus
try is that Bendix is not an ex
ception. He's just another vic
tim of that new epidemic in the
movie colony. It's called "economy."
Veteran Portland Fire
Official Dies at 82
Portland, March 16 VP)
Charles A. Savariau, who set up
Portland's fire alarm system,
died here today at the age of 82.
He superintended the fire
alarm and police telegraph sys
tems here for a quarter-century,
retiring in 1932.
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John S. Service
Ordered Home
Washington, March 16 UP)
The state department has order
ed John S. Service back from
India to testify personally in a
departmental review of his loy
alty record.
Service, a veteran diplomatic
officer, was among four depart
ment employes charged yester
day by Senator McCarthy (R.,
Wis.), as being pro-communist.
His recall was ordered on re
commendation of the civil ser
vice loyalty review board. It
said the state department's own
previous investigation of Service
should have included his per
sonal appearance.
Press Officer Lincoln White
told reporters the recommenda
tion does not mean Service is
"under any new suspicion."
"We assume the board thinks
that Mr. Service should have an
opportunity to speak for him
self," White said.
Shortly before, Senator Tyd
ings (D., Md.) said the senate in
vestigators expect to get state
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Washington, March 16
Senator Tydings (D-Md) said
today senate investigators ex
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on persons accused by Senator
McCarthy (R-Wis) of commun
ist leanings.
He told a news conference
that John E. Peurifoy, deputy
undersecretary of state, had in
dicated to him that the files will
be made available.
Tydings is chairman of a sen
ate foreign relations subcommit
tee which is investigating Mc
Carthy's contentions that com
munists have infiltrated the de
partment. In four days of committee
hearings, McCarthy has named
nine individuals he called sub
versive or bad security risks. He
also has handed the committee
a list of 25 other state depart
ment employes he said are ap
parently bad risks.
The state department has de
clared that all those named pub
licly by McCarthy if they ever
worked for the department
were thoroughly Investigated
and found to be loyal.
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were state department employe!.
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