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a 1 i i i t2Capital Journal, Salem, n To Be Restored Egypt'! famed twin statues, the giant 3000- year-old Colossi of Memnon at Luxor, are to undergo a two ,year restroatlon program to efface the ravages of time. Hoarders Like a Man Tossing Money Away on Street Corner By JAMES MARLOW Washington, July 19 VP) If money away on street corner, head examined. , But something like that Is happening now. ..' Reports of heavy buying and price-boosting around the countrj re multiplying. Some shoppers are trying to lay in supplies of tires, coffee, clothing and other things. J They're afraid rationing Is coming and they want to be lure they get theirs, no matter What happens to the country or anybody else. it By making things scarcer, they give certain unscrupulous and shortsighted businessmen an excuse for jacking up prices. f. The hoarders, President Tru Dan said, are foolish. And he aid some of the businessmen are ((icklng up prices to profiteer. Both words foolish and prof Seer were mild ones. And It's easy to see why. Russian . communism means government control and owner ship of almost everything. Brit ten socialism means some gov ernment control and ownership. British socialism's controls are much milder than communism. But this country, meaning1 the people, has denounced commu nism and feels so strongly gainst it that now we are ac tively fighting It. And there Is strong feeling here against even Britain' socialism. .', In short, the tradition in this country has been against gov ernment control, Interference or ownership. And we shout to the world the wonders of free en terprise. 4 Yet, widespread hoarding and oaring prices in this present situation will in time certainly do two things: 1. Force the government to step In and slap on rationing and price controls. 2. And, by bringing higher prices, make the dollar worth Just that much less, thus dam aging the foundations of the free enterprise economy. (The rationing, of course, would.be imposed to give every one a fair share of what can be bought; the price controls would be slapped on to keep the eco nomy from being ruined alto gether.) . If we get Into a war with Rus sia or the present situation gets very bad, the government will have to step In with controls anyway because then there will be scarcities due to war produc tion. But at this moment it isn't clear that we'll go to war with Russia or that the government, unless things get worse, will have to step in with controls. Even if things don't get worse abroad, at home here the hoard ers and profiteers, by their reckless performance now, could create a situation of scarcity and too-high prices. Then the gov ernment would have to step in. So the hoarders and profiteers LPADNTrONG BRUSH or SPRAY Residential, commercial, industrial and farm buildings. Hurry! The sun is bright, the price is right! Free estimates No down payment 36 Months to pay Willamette Valley Roof Co., Inc. 10 Lena Ave. Ore., Wednesday,' July 19, 1950 you saw a man throwing his you'd think he ought to get his are like the man on the street corner throwing away his mon ey. They stand at this moment in the midst of a fairly sound economy, the kind they un doubtedly want to preserve. It's the kind of economy which has given: 1. The hoarders so much mon ey that they can afford to buy more than they need, out of their own selfishness. 2. The profiteers so much free enterprise that, not satisfied to sell at a fair profit, they can sell at an unfair profit. But by their hoarding and profiteering they are endanger ing the safety of the economy. And, since they're a part of that economy, they're endanger ing their own welfare and. fu ture prosperity. The man on the street corner Isn't doing worse. Wins Easily in Tractor Contest Marvin Dixon, 4-H tractor maintenance club member from the Bridgeport community in Polk county, recently won the tractor driving contest. The contest was sponsored by the Baldwin-Mount Case Implement company of Salem for boys be longing to 4-H tractor maint enance club according to Stan Fansher, county extension agent. The contest was judged according to safe and skillful operation of the tractor. The boys were given time to check their tractor before starting. After all the checks had been made each boy was allowed to try his skill at driving and back ing a tractor hooked to a man ure spreader. An obstacle course was set up for the event. Points were added for safety rules not observed, markers upset or scraped, number of times engine was killed, shifting, etc. Each boy was timed In this event. The boys with the lowest num ber of points were the winners. It took Marvin Dixon 11 min utes 26 seconds to drive the course, and he had 730 points to win the contest. Second place went to Leslie McBeth, Bridgeport, with 1200 points, third to Larry Simpson, North Dnllas, with 1440 points, and fourth to Fred Miller, Dal las, with 2494 points. Famed Geologist Dies Eugene, Ore., July 19 U Warren D. Smith, 70, nationally famous geologist and member of the University of Oregon faculty since 1914, died at his home here Monday night. Smith was widely known throughout the state for his work in Ore gon geology. Phone 3-9694 Ives. 3-6371 Brannan Says His Plan Is Best Twin Falls, Ida., July 19 0J.B Secretary o f Agriculture Charles A. Brannan says that if better farm price support pro grams are made than the one bearing his name, he'd like to see them. The cabinet officer told an audience of about 500 persons in city park Monday night that the department of agriculture would welcome a better sup port program than the one he proposed but that no one has come forward with any. Brannan said what was need ed was a program geared to an objective income, one which would assure the marketing of an abundance of farm products at attractive prices. "We don't want class legisla tion or a program for the bet terment of the farm alone," the secretary said. He said that the abundance of farm produc tion should be placed at the dis posal of all the American people. Brannan appeared at a rally in Rupert earlier in the day where he told a crowd of 500 persons that farm support was a "must" to the national eco nomy. Removal of support prices, he said, would give a few big farmers ' an oppor tunity to control all farming. Rabbit Breeders Set Association Picnic Lebanon The Linn County Rabbit and Cavy Breeders as sociation will hold the annual picnic at Roaring River park on Sunday, July 23. Dinner will be served at 1 p.m. with meat and coffee furnished by the as sociation. All rabbit breeders in the area are invited. Officers of this club are: Ray Clayton, Sweet Home, presi dent; E. Rudisil, Corvallis, vice president; E 1 d a Whitmarsh, Crowfoot, secretary, and Mary Clayton, Sweet Home, treasur er. Wherever Huge Gambling Ring Found By Accidental Check on Man Culver City. Calif., July 19 (U.R) Police today uncovered a huge gambling ring which booked more than $1,500,000 month ly in bets on major league baseball games, and said the ring was linked to a nationwide syndicate. Clientele of the giant gambling operation included "lots of Regains Baby Up for Adoption Redding, Calif., July 19 U.R A 19-year-old Bremerton, Wash., mother regained custody of her seven-months-old son today af ter she testified she was forced to put the infant up for adop tion because she couldn't pay a $107 hospital bill. The unmarried girl, whose name was withheld by Superior Judge Albert F. Ross, said she was enroute from Bremerton to Oakland, Cal., when the baby was born at Memorial hospital here last December. Hospital authorities, she said, refused to let her have the infant until she paid her $107 bill in full. One month later, the girl said, she was talked into clear ing her debt by allowing the child to be placed for adoption. "That's a new one, a hospital holding a lien on a human be ing," Judge Ross commented. "Titles to children can't be transferred like sacks of wheat." Ross returned the child to the custody of the mother and ad monished both sides. Probation officer Edna Saygrover said she would demand a full scale Inves tigation of local adoption prac tices. Your Earn ISAlfM FEDERAL 66U State Street Salem. yov may go, j L ' yprominent people, including movie stars," Detective Robert M. Conlon of the Culver City police said. Conlon said FBI and treasury department agents are moving into the case. Conlon and Police Sgt. M. H. Martin uncovered the ring acci dentally. They followed a sus pected race track bookie to a drug store and his trail took them into the rear room of the store. The room was headquarters of the ring's operation in this area, Conlon said. Culver City is 12 miles west of downtown Los Angeles. The ring booked bets on out come of games and individual player performances, the offi cers said. "We have absolute proof of its tieup with a syndicate with out lets in New York, Chicago. Phil adelphia, St. Louis, Boston and other places," Conlon said. . Police took three men into custody. They were described as "only the guys who handled the telephones." However, au thorities found ledgers contain ing entries which point to brains behind the operation. Conlon said he could not iden tify the heads of. the syndicate until the men were arrested. "They're people pretty well- known throughout the country,' he said. Savings More SAVINGS I O A N Oregon Telephone 2-4139 people In the knew always tall for Sltks' Selett Arrested for violation of the Culver City bookmaking ordi nance were Herman Mallard, 39; Joseph Harris, 50, and Max T. Brown, 47, all of Los Angeles. They were released on $250 bail. Police said the bail was small because the men were booked on - misdemeanor gambling charges. "We didn't realize what we had," they added. Suffer charges will be placed against the men, they indicated. . Officers said while they made the arrests in the rear room about $150 in bets were tel ephoned in within three min utes. They said the ring had a short-wave radio in addition, to standard bookmaking equipment such as telephones, ledgers and account sheets. The baseball bookies took bets on outcome of games and indi vidual player performances. They were the first big baseball gambling operators uncovered in this area, Culver City authori ties said. Among records seized was a book which contained names of more than 200 prominent Cali fornia residents who placed bets with the ring, police said. Regional Building Up Seattle, Wash., July 19 U.K Buildinig permits issued in the Pacific northwest and northern Rocky mountain states during the first six months of this year exceeded the value of those Issued during the same period last year by $57,147,235. ON THE STREAMLINED NORTH COAST LIMITED CHICAGO $8125 NEW YORK $12505 WASHINGTON, D. C. $11945 Longshore Local Attacks Bridges San Francisco, July 19 UB A local in Harry Bridges' long shore union demanded today that the West Coast labor leader either quit his job as president of the ILWU or resign from the presidency of the Maritime Fed eration of the Wojld. The action against Bridges, convicted of perjury in win ning his U.S. citizenship in 1945, came as a unanimous re solution of 200 walking bosses in local 91. They termed the maritime organization "one of the main cogs in the machinery The Newest Development in Collision Insurance The insured pays the deductible amount ONLY ONCE. Thereafter full coverage at NO further premium charge. The cost, ONLY $1.00 above regular deductible charge. This new form of coverage Is available only at the Severin Agency in Salem. RICHARD G. SEVERIN Every from of Insurance 212 N. High St., Senator ROUND TRIP COACH FA RE -tax ixtu Heading East for vacation fan? Go by comfortable "Day-Nita coach, Tourist sleepers, or deluxe roomettes on new all-room Pullmans. Enjoy Buffet-Lounge car and famous NP rneala. Sm your Im.1 rellrewi egwit, mr oddreM A. C STICKLEY Northern Pacific Railway 439 S. W. 6th Ave., Portland NORTHERN PACIFIC RAllWAY53u.-W ATTENTION SHBfllSt tmm Mm PatlOc Northwnt to lott, mm NP fpMdy dteiM frtighl. of sabotage." Bridges, free on ball while appealing a six months jail sentence, has twice halted union resolutions condemning the communist invasion of Korea.. A movement suggesting the immediate jailing of Bridges was stimulated in Washington last week. The U.S. attorney general's office Is reportedly examining the possibility of re voking Bridges' bail. Local 91, which has endorsed President Truman's action in Korea and pledged full assist ance in loading all cargoes and ships involved in the war effort, claimed the World Federation of Trade Unions has issued or ders to " do their utmost to sabotage and delay In all ways the program of the U. S." Hotel Bldg. Dial 3-4016 i,
