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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1950)
itinMiiiiiimiriHiii ii ii m -T'lMii Bf" iv .. -. . I To Confer With MacArthur Army Chief of Staff Gen J. Lawton Collins (left) and chief of naval operations Adm, Forrest P. Sherman (right) took off from Washington, D.C., for Tokyo for strategy talks with Gen. MacArthur. Secre tary of the Army Frank Pace (center) was at the airfield to see them off. (Acme Telephoto) 4 Percent of Drivers Get In 36 Percent of Accidents The worst killers on our highways are the accident repeaters the relatively few drivers who get into accidents over and over again. In the Reader's Digest for September. Clarence Woodbury reports that accident repeaters about four per cent of all "drivers account lor 30 per cem of all accidents. These figures emerge from an analysis of the records of thou sands of drivers, made by Yale university over a six-year pe riod. The same studies disclosed that 81 per cent never had been involved in serious accidents, and another 15 per cent had had only one accident each. Woodbury's article, condensed from The American Legion Mag azine, gives further results of the Yale analysis. The driver who has been in one accident is twice as likely to get into another as the driver! who has never been involved; the two accident driver is three times as prone to another as the man who has had none; and the four-accident repeater is seven times likely to crash as the man with a clean record. Other statistical studies sup port the . Yale findings, reveal ing a consistent pattern of high way casualties attributable to the small percentage or repeaters. Last year more than 10,000 Americans were killed and about 350,000 injured by drivers who had been in previous accidents. Probably the best known case on record is that of 29-year-old Hugh. Gravlttt, Atlanta taxi driver who ran down and killed Margaret Mitchell, author of "Gone With the Wind." Gravitt had previously committed 21 other traffic offenses, most of them serious. Researchers discovered that re peaters are not as emotionally stable as drivers with clean rec ords, that they know less about driving regulations, prefer high er driving speeds and are "cock ier about their tolerance of al cohol. Linn Tomato Harvest Processing to Start Lebanon Processing of beans is the current operation at the Lebanon Packing plant on West Sherman street, with a second crew scheduled to begin this week on tomatoes. Bingham Powell, packing company official, said picking will be under way In fields with in a week. The tomato crop will be canned and there will be no cold packing. Beans, expected to last for three more weeks depending on the weather, will be packed along with the new crop. Addi tional help to handle the toma toes is being supplied through the Lebanon office of the Ore gon state employment service. A third crop being handled at the cannery is evergreen black berries. The berry is just now ripening and the packing com pany is taking all good berries and paying 10 cents per pound at the cannery door. This is an lncrxse of four cents a pound over prices paid last year. 12 G.O.P. Leaders Demand Truman Fire Acheson, Johnson Des Moines, la., Aug. 21 (U.R) Republican leaders from 12 midwest and Rocky mountain states demanded today that Pres ident Truman fire Secretary of State Dean Acheson and Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. The GOP state chairmen have unanimously adopted resolutions calling on Mr. Truman to re- place Acheson and Johnson witn men of "ability." They also demanded replace ment of the "ineffective mem bers" of Johnson's staff but did not name them. Woodburn Defense to Add Air Observers Woodburn Harlow C. Dixon, head of civilian defense for Woodburn, appeared before the city council at the last meeting regarding a request he has received for the establishment of an aircraft ground observer post within the city. The program calls for the ap pointment of a chief observer, the recruiting and training of 30 to 40 volunteer observers and the obtaining of a suitable site for the observation post. The post would be on a standby basis until a n emergency arises. Dixon was instructed to in vestigate means of establishing the post and to report back to the council. "Under Mr. Acheson's direc tion, the present state depart ment has stubbornly adhered to policies inimical to the welfare of the United States and actually beneficial to the plots and schemes of the communist ene my," one resolution charged. It accused the state depart ment of "demonstrated inepti tude," "lack of frankness with the people," and "general bun gling of foreign affairs." "It has deceived the Ameri can people into a sense of false security," the republicans charged. The other resolution scored the "disgraceful imcompetence" of the defense department under Johnson and accused it of "im properly" spending arms funds. The resolution also said that the defense department's inacti vation of "valuable sections" of the armed forces "is causing the bloodshed of embattled Ameri cans today." The GOP conference also asked National Chairman Guy Gabrielson to call a nationwide meeting to crystallize party thinking on "current" interna tional problems growing out of the Korean situation. Outlawing Red Party Held No Violation of U. S. Tradition Outlawing the communist party in the United States is not only vitally necessary to the safety of the nation in the present crisis but would violate no principles of civil liberties or aemo cratlc freedoms, declares Max Eastman in the September Reader's Dicest. Sydney Quads 'Doing Nicely' Sydney, Australia, Aug.; 21 (IP) Mrs. Betty Sara's quads, who gave most of Australia the jit ters during the 50 hours they took to arrive, were reported in good health today, The 29-year-old English war bride and her husband, Percy, a former Australian air force gun ner, announced the following names for the babies; Alison, girl, born Thursday night, weight 3 pounds, 9 ounces. Phillip, born Friday night. weight, 5 pounds, 11 ounces. Judith, born Saturday, weight pounds. Mark, boy, born Saturday night, weight not disclosed. The 1,600 residents of Bellin- gen, where the couple lives, plan to enlarge the Sara home for the new arrivals. A Sydney news paper has begun a fund drive to aid the quads. C of C Enlistment Race Taken by Springfield Albany Albany's chamber of commerce gained 126 new mem bers in a three-day membership drive, but lost a race with the Springfield chamber by almost ZO new members, D. J. Donahue said last week. For losing the battle, the local chamber will play host to the entire Springfield group at a steak dinner Monday at 7 p. m. in the Cascade room of the Al bany hotel. Two of Six Yet Sons Recalled for Service Silverton Mr. and Mrs. John Althuis had six sons that served with U.S. forces during World War II, two'of whom have re ceived calls for the Korean dis turbance. Charles Couturier, adopted son of the Althuises, is in Ko rea at present on a three-year enlistment His foster parents have had only one letter from Charles since his going to Ko rea. He served three years during World War II, and was severely wounded. A son of Mrs. Althuis, Walter West, a third-year student at McMinnville college, received his call the first of the past week as one among 21 men called from McMinnville college. West is studying electronics at Mc Minnville, in the inactive re serves. Mr. and Mrs. West (Hel en Brokke) have a 14-month-old son. West served four years in the navy rating BM 2c. parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Deck ard, Mr. and Mrs. John Deck ard, John, Jr., and Linda Deck- ard drove to the camp, taking the birthday cake for the party. Other guests were Patsy Walters, Pat Elfstrom, Donna Hartman Joan Osko, Alta June Blagden, Connie Thome, Roberta and Pat sy Campbell, Jeanette Townsend. Janice returned home on Tues day. Four Corners Serviceman Off on Marine Enlistment Four Corners Pvt. Clifford Herman, 4010 Beck avenue, left this week for Treasure Island Base at San Francisco to begin a four year enlistment in the U. S. Marines. He is a veteran of World War II having served for four years in the 1st Marines, 1st tank battalion. The Hermans have resided in Four Corners for four years,- where his family maintains a residence. Eight Four Corners firemen answered a call with the No. 1 truck on Friday evening when a combine operated by Claude Ashby set the stubble afire on the Clearwater place about three miles southeast of Four Corners. Soma stubble was burned and the combine badly damaged be fore the fire was brought under control. The fire apparently itarted from the carburetor. Mrs. Elmer Baker spent a week at the Baptist girls' camp at Sprlngdale, Trout Creek camp, where she was one of the coun selors for the girls. The White Cross division of the Four Corners Baptist Mis sionary society met with Mrs. S. H. Cable as hostess in her home for the August meeting. They finished a quilt, began an other one and rolled bandages. This was an all-day meeting with a sack lunch. Attending were Mrs. Oliver Rickman, Mrs. W. R. Gould, Mrs. Victor Loucks, Mrs. Roy Thayer, Mrs. E. A. Snook, Mrs. Cecil Snook, Mrs. M. Herm- iston, Mrs. Harry Hammond, Mrs. Eldon France, Mrs. Elmer Baker. Mrs. Don Jacobs. Janice Phillips attended the Y camp at Silver Creek Falls for ten days. While there iha cele brated her tenth birthday anniv- hi.h Uai naMnli Mf and Mrs. Hardie PhilliDi. her grand-' Faced with a danger unpara lleled in our history, but inhi bited by false notions of demo cratic tolerance, we continue to give the sanction of legality to a party whose confessed purpose is the overthrow of our govern ment, Eastman notes. Contending that such notions are constantly fostered by com munist propaganda but have no validity elsewhere, Eastman says, "A government which fails to suppress a conspiracy to over throw it is not democratic but weak." In preserving our civil liber ties we should distinguish be tween the rights of free speech, press and assembly and the Tight" of organizing to over throw the government," he added. To join or promote such an organization is not an idea or an opinion it is an act, and a seditious one. An act of con gress expressly reaffirming the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution, and as expressly outlawing the communist party, would establish this dis tinction in all minds." The American people "are not deceived," Eastman states, "by the effete notion that a free country, 4n order to remain free. must sanction conspiracy against freedom. They think it is crazy to spend billions to keep com munism out of Greece, Turkey and Indonesia, while not even passing a law to keep it out of the United States." In a recent Gallup poll they voted three-to-one to outlaw the communist party. The right of revolution pro claimed by Jefferson, and re iterated by Lincoln, was con ceived to be the right of the peo ple to overthrow a tyranny, not the right of open advocates of tyranny to overthrow the gov ernment of the people. An objection to outlawing communism is raised by some who fear that bigoted standpat ters will abuse the law to silence all agitation and stop all change. 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