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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, June 21, 1950
Expanding Social Security
By an overwhelming vote of 81 to 2 the senate has
passed a bill that would double benefit payments under the
old-age and survivors' insurance system, in the federal
security system. It would also add about 10 million per
sons to the 35 million now covered and liberalizes qualifi
cation requirements for benefits.
1 The legislation makes the first drastic reforms in the
security program since its inauguration 15 years ago in
the depression 30's. Final approval awaits settlement of
deficiencies between the senate bill and the house bill
passed last year by a vote of 333 to 14.
The house measure would extend full coverage to 11
million persons and increase benefits about 70 percent.
The senate bill doubles benefits and raises payroll taxes as
much as $ 18 a year.
The security act now covers 35,000,000 persons. The
senate bill would add 5,000,000 self-employed, excluding
farmers and certain professionals ; 1,000,000 full-time farm
laborers ; 1,000,000 domestics who work at least two days
a week for the same employer and 600,000 employes of non
profit organizations. About 1,400,000 state and local em
ployes without retirement plans would be included on a
voluntary basis.
The senate voted to increase maximum individual benefits
from $43 to $80 a month. Minimum benefits would be raised
from $10 to $20. The maximum allowed to any family group
would go up from $85 to $150 a month. A retired worker is
allowed an added SO percent of his individual benefit when his
wife reaches 65. He also receives added sums for dependent
children under 18.
The house bill would raise benefits on a less generous scale
but would allow a one and one-half percent "bonus" for every
year of coverage. The senate refused to accept that The
senate also rejected a house provision for federal aid to the
totally and permanently disabled.
The senate bill would liberalize eligibility requirements by
granting full benefits to workers with as little as a year and a
half of coverage It would not materially change existing federal
contributions to states for public assistance but would increase
amounts for care of dependent and crippled children.
Both bills would raise the taxable "wage base" for social
security purposes from the present $3,000 to $3,600 A year.
This would increase taxes collected on salaries of those
earning mora than $3,600 a year by $18. The tax is split
between the employe and the employer.
The house bill also would increase the payroll tax from
the present one and one-half percent to two percent start
ing next January. The senate voted to freeze the present
tax until 1956. After that, the tax would increase gradu
ally until 1970 when it reached a maximum of three and
one-quarter percent.
The Chamber of Commerce Moves
The familiar second-story location on North Liberty
street for the Chamber of Commerce will be changed the
first of the month for one in the Senator Hotel. When
headquarters of over 30 years in one place are moved, as
from the Eckerlen building, the event is more than of pass
ing interest. The event, furthermore, is of interest to the
entire city of Salem and surrounding area.
After all, a chamber of commerce promotes businesses
already in a community, seeks new businesses, and boosts
civic development. The city's welfare and well-being can
be reflected in its chamber.
Salem's chamber has announced that one of the reasons
for the move is to save money on rent and maintenance.
The matter of internal finances is one for the chamber it
self. But the chamber's activities are the concern also of
the entire community. So if the move can bring about a
healthier chamber, one in which more money can be spent
to bring new businesses into Salem and the adjacent area,
the move will be accepted as in the best interests of the
community.
A city which is developing like Salem, needs an aggres
sive chamber of commerce. No sooner has the census fig
ure of 43,064 for the city been released than a prediction of
continued growth for Oregon's capital is made. C. A. Mc
Clure of the planning commission foresees the possibility
of reaching the 50,000 figure by 1960.
Salem's chamber built a reputation in those quarters on
North Liberty street. In fact, the physical quarters them
1 selves became recognized as being as fine as any in the
country for a city of this size. The adjoining rooms of
fered meeting places for groups in the city and from the
county.
A move from such a location and history should be ac
companied by a new aggressiveness on the part of the
chamber management and by a renewed program of parti
cipation by the membership.
BY H. T. WEBSTER.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Columnist Says Eavesdropping
Old Habit With Sen. Brewster
y DREW PEARSON
Washington Eavesdropping is an old family pastime with
Maine's Sen. Owen Brewster who, as this column revealed, tapped
the telephone wires of California airplane manufacturer Howard
Hughes.
More than three years ago Feb. 18, 1947 Senator Brewster
appeared before
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Feel Tired Yet? You're
A Busy Man or Woman Today
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a judiciary sub-
committee to
oppose the ap
point m e n t of
of John Clifford
as U.S. district
Judge for Maine.
The senator ex
plained that
Clifford came to
Brewster's ho
tel room to dis-
c u s s a local
housing problem.
"He said he would come up
to my hotel room and see me,"
Brewster continued. "I did some
thing which I have never done
before, and I do not think I will
ever do again. We had two
rooms at the hotel, the door open
between, and I asked Mrs. Brew
ster to listen to the conversa
tion." Since then it's been a stand
ing joke in Maine whenever any
one mentions having a talk with
Senator Brewster to ask: "And
pocket. All four would have
voted against McCarthy.
Whereupon McCarthy moved
that the committee refuse to
' honor proxies. Such a refusal is
almost unheard of in congress
ional committees. However, Mc
Carthy had a scant majority of
the committee with him, and got
away with it He then obtained
the appointment of New York's
Congressman Gamble, a foe of
housing, as chairman of the
housing committee, with himself
as vice chairman. It was as vice
chairman that McCarthy spent
the taxpayers' money to tour the
country studying housing, and
later cashed in on that trip by
getting $10,000 from the Lustron
Corporation.
McCarthy s tax troubles
Though McCarthy now states
he sold his article to the highest
bidder, actually, according to
Lustron officials, McCarthy
pleaded for more dough
Cap me. Km, hmmam. an. at
You are a busy man or woman today. Statistics bear out was Mrs. B. standing behind the f ho!!;.th' ?",n Zhy- M 'JT1
that your heart will neat more times ana mat you wiu xaxe joor?"
more breaths today than on any other day of the year. What's
more, your watch will tick more times today thai, on any other
eaueu lur mure auusn. himi AiAnlirn
His income tax for 1948 may POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
mi
day in 19S0. You see, June 21,
longest day of
the year. Vjt
Ana mat s one ;
thing that day-;
light saving j
time hasn'tr
changed.
Dr. Chester W.
Hamblin, pastor
of Salem's First
P r e s b y terian
church, has his .
own weekly ra- '
dio program on station KOCO
. . . and from now on Hamblin
is going to confine his radio ac
tivities to that program . . .
last night he took his initial
whirl at baseball broadcasting
. . . handled the mike during the
fifth inning of the Salem-Van-couver
game at Waters park . . .
Hamblin had a lot of fun, but
he's decided to give up sports
casting . . . "It sounds a lot eas-
the first day of summer, is the
ier when somebody else does it,'
he explains.
DIOGENES PUTS
DOWN LANTERN
Most Congressmen are scru
pulously honest about taking
gratuities for introducing legis
lation for their constituents
unlike Congressman Wood of
Georgia whose office collected
$1,000 for passing a bill corn-
Gambling Is again flourishing
in carnivals and amusement
parks in Oregon, and apparently
law enforcement officers can't
do a thing about it. (At least pensating Ralph Stanfield after road5-
in the state of Wisconsin, Mc
Carthy's tax return shows his
total income was $28,947, in
cluding his senate salary of $12,
500 plus the $10,000 from Lus
tron, plus $4,535 in dividends
from the Milwaukee and the
Central of Georgia railroads.
However, McCarthy also lists
It's Hal Boyle's Day
To Act as a Pavement Plato
they're not.)
Here's the twist: Operator of
gambling concession tells pros
pective player he may play for
prizes or cash. Player is paid off
in tickets, and told that he may
cash tickets at any time. When
player decides to collect cash.
By HAL BOYLE
New York W Cuff notes on life by a pavement Plato:
It's hard to go on paddling your own canoe when you're mar-
losses to the tune of $25,881 ried to a girl who yearns for a yacht,
which he claimed from the sale Bankruptcy isn't the heaviest penalty for steady sinning
of securities of the same rail- boredom is. .
The greatest
he was crippled by a U.S. army
truck.
For example, when Senator
Sparkman of Alabama was still
a congressman, he introduced a
private bill to compensate a con
stituent who also had been in-
McCarthy had failed to pay test of the art
taxes on about $45,000 of income of conversation
during the war, for which the these days is to
state of Wisconsin and the fed- fill in that three-
eral government later nicked
him. At that time he claimed
he was out of the country and
jured by an army truck. The al not nave 10 P raxes mougn
constituent was so grateful that " ""' J""s "
minute interval
at a cocktail
party between
the time the liq
uor runs out i
and the time the
his taxes just the same.
McCarthy's 1948 tax return
would indicate he had sold his
railroad securities in order to
pay his earlier tax deficiency.
Perhaps he needed the money
operator of the game hands him
a merchandise prize . . . then v, mn i- .. h.-i, have known that every member
Sparkman's name and sent the "T.1 aaa w ;
deposit slip to Sparkman.
This was promptly returned,
however, with a courteous note,
thanking the constituent but ask
ing him to keep his money.
After Sparkman changed the
rinnit hark in th .nntitiint'a
name, the bank returned the UP deficit
worthless deposit slip to Spark- (CprrifM
man. - Across it was scribbled:
"At last Diogenes can put down
that lantern."
This referred to the Greek
philosopher who carried a light
ed lantern around in mid-day,
searching for an honest man.
buys the merchandise back a few
minutes later.
Legal? Well, that's the way
they work it, anyhow.
Salem's postoffice probably
has the distinction of being the
most elaborate postoffice build
ing in the United States without
a drinking faucet in the lobby.
from Lustron in order to make tom5rr0'
Pickpockets Pick Wrong Man
Mankato, Minn., June 21 W Police Chief William Krnse
conducted a one-man investigation today for the two men
who slashed his pocket and tried to steal his wallet in a bos
station ticket line.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Political Events in Europe
Encourage Peace Optimism
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
tin tmlm Affftlra Jtnii.tti
The trend of political events in western EuroDe certainly is an ?'
invitation to considerable optimism among workers for peace and .', ,. , ...
prosperity. It s well known that the $10,-
One of the most enrouraeinir vrntx nf nnr irnhii ti. i. 000 the Lustron people paid Mc-
the agreement of Western Germany to join the council of Europe. Carthy wa Part ' the RFC mil-
s - m r linns utriink 4 Via nmm -s m Ant r) .
Police Gazette now has a son
who leers at the corset ads in
the fashion magazines.
Raising children wouldn't be
so expensive if they'd just make
a pair of shoes last as long as
they do the castor oil bottle.
If the eaves ever dropped on
all the world's eavesdroppers,
who'd have a roof over his head?
Mankind would be better off
if science would leave the atom
alon? and find a way to cross
breed happiness and the seven
year itch.
Isn't it about time to put the
international crisis on a five
day week? People are begin-
The boy who learned about in to worry about it on their
by studying the old
A wife can
forgive her hus
band everything except his abil
ity to have fun without her.
The bald man's philosophy:
'Oh, well, hair today gone
MCCARTHY'S $10,000
There may be more than meets
the eye behind the $10,000 paid
to Sen. Joe McCarthy of Wis
consin by the now bankrupt
Lustron Corporation for writing
7,000-word booklet on hous-
Mississippi's a Big Creek
St Louis, June 21 u.B Two patrolmen saw a flickering
light at the water's edge last night and Investigated. They
fonnd Samuel Jay Bond, 91, Hugo, Okla., wading in the
river, holding a lighted match.
"I was just looking for my hat and cane," Bond told the
officers. "I lost 'em when I slipped and fell in the creek."
The ancient was bundled off to City hospital. Bnt this
morning, before seeing him aboard a Chicago bound bus to
visit relatives, officers drove him back where they fonnd him.
Bond was impressed by the broad expanse of the Missis
sippi river. J'My," he said. "It's a big creek at that. Isn't it?"
OPEN FORUM
Marble-Faced Gas Station
made up of rep
resentatives of
non -communist
governm e n t s.
This ranges the
Western Reich
on the side of
amity with
neighbors
against which it
twice waged
world wars of
aggression.
Chanc e 1 1 o r
Konrad Adenauer summed up
the action as a commitment on
the side of the West against the
East, and a contribution to world
peace. That's the way it also
struck many close observers.
This historic move came on
from this armchair it looks like
an accurate appraisal.
Particularly interesting is the
Times' view that "there is no
doubt that the present temper
of the German people as a whole
is pacific." That is an idea which
this column has advanced more
than once. As a matter of fact
lions which the government ad
vanced to Lustron. Thus, in ef
fect all the American taxpayers
helped to subsidize the senator
from Wisconsin.
But not generally known is
that McCarthy had done a ter
rific job for the real estate lob
by prior to receipt of the fee.
Not only had he engaged In a
tenacious, vitriolic battle against
th twn wnrlri tinr nr... nr..
clpitated by Prussian aggression the housin8 bill a battle just as
which took advantage of the un
questioning loyalty of the aver
tenacious as his present row over
alleged communism in govern-
West German action in joining
the Schuman plan is seen in the
smashing defeat given the com-
the heels of Western Germany's munists in a Ruhr election Sun-
age citizen to his government "ent but he also dominated
uic aftiuiiiuuciii ill uuusv-scil-
at housing committee supposed
to Investigate the need for pub-
An interesting corollary to the llc houln
and his adaptability to regimen-
tation
(Editor's Note: Letters to the Open Forum must be signed
by the author, with address noted. Letters most be kept to the
300-word limit or else they will have to be cut to that length.)
To the Editor: The Salem city council has not been remiss In
it's guardianship of the fringe land around the Oregon state
capitol; furthermore there is not any truth in the Insinuations
that the mayor or Salem city council are marble headed for
relaxing their zoning ordinance and permitting a marble-faced
. . . gasoline wagon station to
be located so near "the Capitol." council of Salem if they care to
We have not only been diffi- have our capital arrangements
dent but exceedingly dilatory; in Saiem mterfering with tke
have moved to Portland or Eola de!ired commercial exploitation Germany are as important as the
, .. ,.. k. of their city? designs the girl next door has
.MindiJ In, th.'rv..! fi n nntri.r - . On junior,
odd years.
Did anyone ask the mayor or
Definition of a love poacher:
A fellow who tries to corral some
other guy's dear with a fast
buck.
They say money talks, and
maybe that explains why a dol- "
lar bill just whispers nowadays.
There hasn't been so much
change from the good old days.
People used to fall off horses.
Now they fall off diets and water
wagons.
An optimist Is a fellow who
hands a dime to a nightclub hat
check girl and waits for a
smile.
Two young honeymooners
spread their picnic lunch in a
bed of poison ivy. Well, that's
one way of starting from scratch.
The difference between mar
riage and a good circus is in
rings.
Never believe that staying in
a lowly job will guarantee you
a secure future. Even ashtrays
get out of style.
Since we got silent popcorn
and people can actually hear the
dialogue on movie screens, the
real criticism of Hollywood is
beginning.
You can never convince
mother that Stalin's overtures to
BRYAN J. ENGLISH
4213 N.E. 9th ave.
Portland
One kind of experience gives
a man character. The other kino)
just puts circles under his eyes.
Help, Police! House Stolen
Oil City, Pa., June II State police today reported a
all from a man who told them:
"I just found out I bought a stolen house."
State police checked to see If any houses had been stolen
lately. Sure enough, there was one. .
Robert J. Bchnitier of Venus reported someone tor dowa
and hauled away his II by If foot summer cottage In Pine
Grove township sometime between May II and May 18.
Investigation showed the caller, who was not Identified,
had bought Rchnltser's dismantled house. Stats police said
Sehnltser will get the house back In pieces.
Snake in the Mail Baffles 'Em
Asusa, Calif., June 21 A snake la the mall confounded
the parcel post department. Dellverymaa Cnrtis Anderson
found It ander a parrel.
Snake expert Edward R. Dickson said It's a boa constrictor,
14 Inches long, perhaps a week old, Dickson, who took charge
f the reptile, says th boa Is a native to South and Central
America.
Now the pmtle In the post office Is how It got here. Best
guess Is thst It stowed away In air mall.
Signs of the Times
i Detroit, June II OJB Signs of the times:
David Voke, 55, was first arrested la 1911 for stealing a
fcorse.
Since then, he's been arrested 49 times and convicted for
15 crimes, mostly car theft and larceny.
Authorities sought him today for stealing a CadlUaa.
.
acceptance of the sensational
French Schuman plan to pool
Europe's coal and steel, thereby
throwing the vast resources of
the German Ruhr into the melt
ing pot with the great French
Interests. Thus these two tradi
tional enemies finally have Join
ed hands at least temorarily to
work for peace. The London
Times sums up the development
thus:
"The Schuman plan which, in
the German view, is intended to
lay the economic foundation for
political union in Western Eu
rope, was largely responsible
for the federal German govern
ment's decision to accept the in
vitation to join the council of
Europe. By voluntarily join
ing it, the federal German gov-
day to choose a new legislature
for the state of North-Westphalia.
The Reds got only 5.5
per cent of the vote, and dropped
from third to fifth place in
party standing. Splinter par
ties trying to revive Nazism also
received only tiny support.
Representatives of the govern
ments which have subscribed to
the Schuman plan are meeting
in Paris today to devise ways
and means of making this far
reaching project work. Those
participating are France. Bel
gium, Holland, Luxembourg,
West Germany and Italy.
One of Europe's chief coal
and steel nations Is missing-Britain.
Socialist Prime Minister At-
ernment of fifty million people tlee has declared that his ov.
nailed its political colors to the ernment wishes to help and not
Western mast hinder the plan to integrate Eu
"There is no doubt that the rope's coal and steel. He holds
present temper of the German the door open to future coopera
people as a whole is pacific tion but says Britain can't go
and that the Idea of a federated Into the project without know
Europe In which they can peace- Ing more about it.
fully deploy their energies and The point Is that Britain's so
talents is the one which, for the clalists are fearful of entrust
time being at any rate, has most Ing their all-important steel and
atrongly seised the public im- coal industries to the dictation
In the closed-door battle over
the appointment of this commit
tee, in October, 1947, Senator
Tobey of New Hampshire, chair
man of the banking and cur
rency committee, turned up with
proxies of four senators in his
'Pitch' to Okies
Puts Station
On Radio Spot
San Diego, June 21 UJ9 Ra
dio station KSDO of San Diego
today nervously wrote to nine
candidates for secretary of state
in Oklahoma, offering them
three tree radio commercials
in San Diego for their cam
paigns toward the July t pri
mary. The gesture was ordered by
Station Manager Jack Heinti
after he discovered Cowboy Disk
Jockey Bostick Wester, had used
a unique "pitch" over KSDO for
his uncleJohn D. Conner, one
of the Oklahoma candidates.
"Will aU you Okies in San
Diego please write to your kin
folks back home and ask them
to vote for my uncle, John D.
agination.'
ciallst nations, that Is, countries
That's strong mustard, coming which maintain the capitalist
as It does from a leading news- system. This situation has creat-
paper of a country which has ed a harraning political ques-
suffered so grievously at the tion for Mr. Attlee'a govern-
hands of Germany. However, mtnt to solve.
Conner, for secretary of State."
of a pool dominated by non-so- wester told KSDO audiences.
But because of FCC regula
tions regarding political time,
Heinti warned Wester to halt
his campaigning, offered Con
ner's opponents the equivalent
time.
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