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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 21, 1950)
Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1 888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Auiitont Publiiher Published every afternoon except Sundoy at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of Hie Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this poper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly, $1.00; One Year, $12.00. By Mail in Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year, $8.00. V. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos., $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October 21, 1950 BALDOCK GETS BARTLETT AWARD Robert H. Baldock, chief engineer of the Oregon high way commission for many years, has been awarded the ' George R. Bartlett award for 1950 and will receive the plaque at the annual national convention of highway offi cials in December at Miami, Florida. The Bartlett award was established in 1931 by a group of friends of Bartlett with the purpose of perpetuating the spirit of friendship and helpfulness which he brought into his work in the highway field. Bartlett was county commissioner for Wayne county, Michigan where the first concrete highway in the United States was laid during his administration. Later he was president for many years of the Portland Cement associ ation with offices in Chicago. The award is in the form of a plaque on which the picture of the man honored is placed. The award is conferred annually upon an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to highway prog ress, the recipient being selected by a board of award composed of one representative of the following organiza tions: The American Association of State Highway Offi cials, the American Road Builders' association, the High way Research board of the National Research council. There is no honor in the entire highway field higher than the Bartlett Award. To be selected by the heads of the three national organizations for this award among hundreds of able and serious workers administrators, engineers, and research investigators is an honor that is given only for conspicuous ability and achievement. A prophet is not without honor save in his own country says the old adage and most everybody in Salem and Ore gon who really knows nothing of highway engineering and its problems think he knows more than Mr. Baldock who has made highways a life long study and attained national distinction in solving them. The Baldock plan for Salem traffic has been savagely criticized consequently by many who know nothing of the subject and are too myopic to understand or profit by ex pert opinion. Oregon and Salem are fortunate in having as disting uished an engineer in charge of their highway problems and Salem fortunate in having him a resident of the city with an interest in its welfare surpassing that of any ex pert that could be hired. His excellent long range traffic plan for the city is commended by every highway engi neer in the country. Yet the state board of control, the state capitol com mission and the mayor, spokesman for the city council, none of them engineers, think they know more than the state's chief engineering authority and voted to change the Salem traffic plan by substituting Winter street for Summer as the one way south bound artery, at an addi tional cost of 1 50,000. ' These state and city alleged experts gave as their rea sons that Summer street must be preserved for visitors to "leisurely drive and view the state buildings, despite the fact that nine tenths of the traffic is local. They also stated that the use of Summer street in the one way plan would only result in confusion. According to engineers, use of Winter street will in the long run only cause con gestion in the future and a less efficient operation of the one way traffic plan. We think the people of Salem are entitled to the privi lege of accepting the highway commission's approved traffic plan, especially as the commission must pay the costs, and is apt to balk on spending $50,000 more pro posed by those who know nothing on the subject. Mr. Baldock is a graduate of the University of Colorado college of engineers, worked with various mid-west con struction firms before coming to Oregon in 1908 as engi neer with the Port of Astoria for seven years. Since 1915 he has been with the state highway department as dis trict engineer, assistant chief and chief engineer. Mr. Baldock, nationally known as a maintenance engi neer, is called by other states on technical problems. He was selected by the Public Roads administration as U.S. representative to the third Pan-American Highway Con gress at Santingo, Chile in 1939. He is past president and a member of the executive committee of the American Association of State Highway Officials, a member of the National Committee on Highway Design and chairman on economics, of its research board. STASSEN'S TURN-DOWN It was no surprise that Moscow heaped scorn on Harold Stassen's bid for a talk with Stalin over the ways if any toward pence. There had been so much speculation that the Kremlin was leading up to a big "peace offensive" that there was an outside chance Stalin would go for an offer to by-pass the state department and talk "peace." But the bitter attack on Stassen's bid for a conference by the official newspaper of the communist party in Mos cow certainly dashed any hopes that Stalin would have time for that. Stassen was called silly, crude, ridiculous and several other things for even requesting the confer ence. StasRcn had suggested a face-to-facc meeting of Americans and Russians in an effort to "stop the drift toward war." He bIso urged Stalin to change Russia's present policy and "move toward world peace and free dom for mankind." This turn-down should dispel any doubts in the minds of hopefuls that Russia might be dissuaded Bt this time from her goal of world conquest. It is true that Stassen's bid was from a private citizen although certainly one promi nent in the affairs of one of the major political parties of the United States. Stassen had had an "audience" before with Stalin several years ago. At that "audience" Stalin had said the important thing wbs whether Russia and the United States desired coexistence. If "one side" does not want coopera tion, said Stalin, "the result will be conflict, war." That was the same as saying that if America did not like the terms of the Soviet Union, we would be lacking in a desire to cooperate. The roasting that Stassen got yesterday for suggesting another conference meant that Stalin still wasn't inter ested unless and until the United States was willing to "cooperaU" with Russia. BY H. T. WEBSTER Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime flfl tffl fNSPlRCD BYTFie GIFT OP A I 1 11 I lbY BOW AMD ttKOW AHQA I A , IIUI' LLsTURe BY dam SMt-m 1 JAM W WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Real Heroes in War Drawing Least Pay and Fewer Medals By DREW PEARSON En Route to Washington Under the current army pay system, the real heroes in the Korean war are drawing the pay. They don't even get a fair share of the glory when the publicity and medals are dished out. These unsung heroes are the infantrymen, who form the army's battering BY CARL ANDERSON Henry FT mineral rights behind the farm ers' backs. For example, Elmer P. John son bought a 160-acre depres sion farm from the government in Ocena County, Michigan, in 1838. The government reserved half the mineral rights, then sold half of its rights 10 years later to Augie Busk of Grand Rapids, Mich., for $800. Exactly seven days after the sale, the Roosevelt Oil company struck it oil on Johnson's farm. Over BLOCK THAT THE FIRESIDE PULPIT Miracle Cure for World's Ills Found in Best Selling Book By REV. GEORGZ H. SWIFT RMtor, St. Paul' EpUcopil Church We read eagerly of the discovery of some "miracle drug," which, it is hoped, will control another dread disease. But a physician's prescription is usually, if not always, advisable before using it, to guard against doing one's self more harm than good. A part of the physician's prescription is found as directions on the bottle. However good ram. but who are not paid as much as the techni cal men ana Jsrw1 pencil pushers,'- T It used to be that infantry men could col lect $10 extra each month for combat work. If they wore the T"n" combat infantryman's badge, was good for a $10 monthly bo- night, the value of Busk's new nus. However, even this has mineral rights shot up from $800 been taken away from them in to $8,000. Korea, despite the fact that com- Another 'Ocena County farm bat airmen and submarine men er, Paul Weiner, reported his still draw $20 to $75 per month trouble over mineral rights to extra for "hazardous duty." Senator Williams. Meanwhile, it's the infantry- was not notified of the men who feel the bite of enemy Iease nor ' the sale of these bullets, who slog through mud, mineral rights, nor did I even sleep in foxholes and live on know that the government had cold K rations, who have little retained one-half of the mineral chance to take a bath, see a rights until February 24, 1949, tni VIA nttonrl ihiirnr utrU. when someone tried tn itppur a ters, or sleep with their shoes lease from me for the other POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER 1 I I A 1 I I I I tat I" ""j ' -l"" 1 issaaaaaaia-SBSssssei off. Nevertheless, in Korea, the average monthly pay of a man in an infantry rifle company is one-half in order to drill for oil," Weiner wrote. Even more shocking, a group of government insiders formed the medicine may be, its value may be nulli fled, or even made harmful by a disregard of the physician's advice. $135, compared with $226 for an investment pool in St Louis from their own agency. Thov worn W IT n-A-tA t i6..t.k-K.u UWUi ., uic R Frankhanel, H. W. Snodgrass, an air force combat crew man and $172 for a submarine crew, Drive Into Pyongyang Modern American Fighting at Its Best By DON WHITEHEAD (Substituting lor Hal Boriei to Saint Matthew. Regardless of Christian miracle bottle in th. ITlVJ": ''- Barrett and D. M. Hardy- .. Pyongyang, Korea (Jri-Th, ,U S. tank. , and .infantry ' drive into y. , vU,H, " all high officials in the St. Louis lms nea ul """" """ " " """ force, quartermaster, antiair- federal land bank As such of modern American military tactics. craft, field artillery, engineers, thev wer. in a D0ri.ion in , It has the dash and color of Gen. George S. Patton's drive on medicine chest while experi meriting with other drugs. medical and, last on the list, the if,mnI. Palermo in Sicily and the smashing thrust across Europe by The world has been trying to '"l?""?' While these men were hired the American armies w,HnHv th it ! Fir.t n s ine same siory wnn otner to help the farmers, they bought " 15 "1B 110,1 " '""""" , awards. Durine WorlH War IT. h form.,. .!.. i- which the Americans under- Cavalry divisions Seventh reg- infantrymen suffered 7.0 per their own profit instead stand and execute well. (Copyruht 1130) mis was me way iv iiappcueu. bring order out of chaos for untold centuries by bloodshed. A n n fncH I I It has never done more than and bewildered bring temporary relief. We are cem oi me casualties Dut got world has Jong-" now trying to settle the prob- oniy n.o per cent of the medals, been, and still Is, desperately lems of the world by policing The air force was decorated with casting about for a miracle cure and feeding nearly half the hu- 76'2 Per cent of the medals, for its ills. That cure has already man race. In trying to bring wh"e other branches got the peace to a troubled world, we """ -:iii. should be ever mindful of the Now that the Korean war is been found. The whole thing has been well written un. and the direction for use uivpn In fact that the Great Physician nearly won, the army should nas maae tne diagnosis ana nas give iair pay ana recognition written the prescription. to the foot soldiers who did We can have all that Chris- the slugging and the slogging, tianity has to offer abundant the book listed as the world's best seller. Any book store has it. The Great Physician who gave His discovery to the world. gratis, is Jesus Christ, and the life and peace, but the directions condensed directions on the bot- on the bottle must be heeded, tie are found in His famous and the medicine taken. Until "Sermon on the Mount" record- the world does this there will be ed for us in the Gospel according wars and rumors of wars. His Timing Was Too Good Atlanta, Oct. 21 VP) The young man, William E. Smith, had waited a long time for his new house, but it was com pleted at last. He moved in, took care of a few odds and ends and as his final chore drilled through the brick front of his home to Install a letter box. He finished Just in time for the postman to leave the first letter at the new address. It was a call to 1st Lieut. William E. Smith, a marine re serve pilot, to report at the end of the month for extended active duty. Future Politician Looms Seattle, Oct. 21 P Some politicians could take a lesson in "fence-riding" from one fifth grade Seattle pupil. When asked In a city-wide survey by the University of Washington's department of pedodontlcs why he did or did not like the dentist, the youngster wrote: "What I dislike about the dentist: I don't know that I dls- . like the dentist, "What I like about the dentist: I don't know that I like the dentist." KRISS-KROSS Non-Suited Males Present Problem for Gal Swimmer ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr. What was the number one obstacle to be overcome by Phyllis Eagy during her mile-a-day swim in the YMCA pool the last couple of weeks? ... it wasn't shortage of breath ... it wasn't those end-of-the-pool turns after each lap . . . nor was it tiring UN Plan to Halt Aggression Provides Weapons for Peace NO AIRPLANES FOR MRS. VEEP Vice president Alben Bark ley and his charming bride see eye to eye on about everything except riding in airplanes. Barkley takes to the air like MacKENZIE'S COLUMN a auck to water, can snooze peacefully even during a choppy flight. However, Mrs. Barkley is addicted to airsickness and flatly refuses to fly. The Veep wanted his lady to accompany him when he took off on his current democratic barnstorming tour. But it was he was flying inTead Mrs. nywhere and everywhere, by force U necessary, represents the B. entrained for the family most powerful organized peace move ever made, hearth in Paducah, Ky. It tacitly recognizes that until human nature is changed man- "I have no desire to become kind is going to resort to war at times, and must be restrained. an angei not yet, anyway," in effect it she told a friend. acknowle d g e s that there will FARMERS' LOSS OF be occas ions MINERAL RIGHTS when only Many farmers still don't, force, or a dis know it, but the government has' play of force, sold the mineral rights out from can turn the under some of their farmlands trick. iment moved against the little village of Hukkyo which nestles in a line of ridges blocking the main approach to Pyongyang. There the enemy had made his stand. All afternoon and all night the Seventh regiment fought at Hukkyo, repulsing two counter attacks during the night. Then Thursday morning the Fifth regiment was shoved into the battle. The Fifth moved across a river with tanks leading the way. This thrust broke through the thin crust of Red resistance. After that the column barreled down the road. At times the tanks were rac ing 35 miles an hour and the Reds didn't have a chance to pull back and defend Pyong yang. They were overrun before they could retreat to prepared positions before the city. By DeWITT MacKENZIE t() Foreita Allslri Anilym The United Nations' adoption of the plan to halt aggression arms or legs mile-a-day pace was men unattired mem- bers of the male;.' scx . . . now,! wait a minute i . . . let me ex-j plain . . . ac-l cording to tradi tion at any in door swim pool for men, gents prefer not to believe it or riot, prime obstruction in her Freedom Follies? no t wiuium so mucn as notuying mis rA the owners. The federal farm reaching project SSSS mortgage corporation has given is given teeth BsfS . ........j arm ,or 011 or aie Ior uranium requiring mai script . . . and we hope we on hundreds of farms, haven't Jinxed tonight's show by This has already started a these remarks one-man Investigation by Dela- , ' , . ware's GOP Senator John Wil- This week's recognition for to reverse its policy and now ,entJ courteous driving goes to gent who was behind the wheel mineral rights on his own prop- ,u Qwn lorces ,'nt0 Korea to end League, the Locarno Pact was Col. Marcel Crombez of Port land, Ore., Fifth regiment com mander, said: "The Reds were shooting at us all the way but we kept going." This hard-hitting column did n't halt for small pockets of Red troops. It Just shot them up from the road and kept going ahead to let following units virtually all the independent na- dea' with theni later, tions of the globe reaffirmed And " a res"" most of the the convention and added to it. bypassed Reds decided to sur- The convention provided for render rather than fight, meditation, arbitration, and in- " wa Just three months ago ternational commissions of in- hat the Flrst Cavalry division quiry into situations likely to "nded in Korea, lead to war. For ,he flrst tw0 months the , , , division was on the defensive. . . j , Then came the break-through The next step, and It was a in mid-September and the surge seven-league stride was the north. The drive on Pyongyang creation of the League of Na- rlimnvH th pir.t ral,w. requiring that tion, at the end of World War I. ord in the Korean war U.N. members place specified Thgt did ,ome good work bu, J0"" w;t units of their armed forces at n failed in the great emergen- iive to see this day," said Brig, the disposal of the peace organ- cies because it lacked the cour- Gen, Frank Allen, Jr., of Cleve- Ization to meet crises. It repre- Je (and the means) to take iand, o., First Cavalry division perpetuation of tne " sm ssi"- assistant commander. ,u -i .u . , emergency measure unaer i-ic. waiter Kraeger or 3Z7 the give the farmer first crack at ...!,,,, , it hi ahlr tn send In an effort to bolster the Trimble Avr.. Detroit orlnn.H- "The faster we move the bet- of a Packard sedan, license 132- erty, - .i. i. 452. at about 7:45 a.m. Thursday However, manv farmers. wear bathing iong string of cars, headed whose rights have already been suits other than the ones Moth- inu;Brrt , wr h.h im nn nlH Hn tint rpaii that th er Nhture provides for them Center street for 17th street stop have only 50 per cent claim to 80 through the formality of be. caicm imv.i i i.u cavih sign , . cari leaving service the on and uranium that may ing passea oy uie " Dietely abolish war, 59 of the Major N. C. Tracy is with the imlr. iu. station, attempted to get into oe lying under their fields, oiy. nv, ...c u.g M indepenlent nations of the First Corps as an a the aisression from the North, forced in 1925, with the prl- ter I like it." mary idea of preventing any ,, . ., . further German-French upheav- The first two brothers to en- .ue' u Proram " als. Then in 1928, because the ter Pyongyang were the Tracy League of Nations didn't com- brothers of Cedarhurst, N. Y. air liaison tion . . . , , ... . o ....... . ---- ... . . . ,l oi iiiueueuuem iiaiiuiis ui itic rust wurps as an air u swim at i are scnraunu u...y ,ine of traffic . , . n0 could do What's more they probably oy wnicn was uumc wor,d Jigned the parij peacJ officer Hi, brother Lt, Col. tnrce nignts a wren . . . su , curs on center squeezed to- won t find out until the specula- assemoiy s pom.i Pact tor "renunciation of war". Edgar J. Tracy, is with the Phyllis, in order to continue gcther bumper-to-bumper . . . tors show up on the farms to ensures its passage in the larger t ( t Fif(n Cavalrv regiment. with her mlle-a-dny clip, had finally 132-452 came along, stop- drill. body. Theje move vnf f They rode lnto pyongyang m to wail around the YMCA lobby ped, waited . . . allowed car These farms were the ones It's Just over 50 years ago that jowed " di,armament confer. the same vehicle. Major Tracy many nights until the last un- leaving service station to enter that went bankrupt during the the world saw the first meeting enceJ AJ)d coue much ha, said: clad mile vacated the swimming nne 0f traffic ... and while depression. In most cases, the of nations ever assembled to g,,',,, ln the interests of "Since his outfit was going In pool . . . then she'd be able to orchids go to driver of 132-452, government took over the mort- discuss ways and means of main- cf m he western hemisphere 1 wanted to be with him. We get In the pool for a nocturnal onions to motorists following gages and later resold the farms, tainlng peace. That was In 1899 the virloui Pan-American went Into Kumchon together mile . . . sometimes starting him. who honked their horns ln However, it was usually written when 26 countries met at the nfcrence, and I wanted to do the same as late as 10 p.m. ... she com- disgust to think that he'd stop into the small print that the Hague and adopted a conveji- H ,. h n,,-H , thing here." pletea the last mile of her 10- ind let another ear set in front government retained 50 per cent tion for the pacific settlement . "0Da'y " ..... . i - - ... ... . . . ,i i ji , n inn dhliciil aim uerBiaieiib iuiub mile stint last night . . . and 0f them. she wishes to heaven that some- one would pass a law requiring -..., , . men to wear bathing suits. J The 'oowlng is good Satur- . . day reading, for you'll have all The Freedom Follies of '50. weekend to figure It out: In whicn closes a three-night stand Br''". peanuts are known as at Salem hiRh school auditorium "nground groundnuts ... and with an 8:30 performance to- nut buter ground ground night is the sanest, smoothest, nut5 thl 'mple fact silenttst show, backstage, that nyone who's ever been in we've ever heard of . . . rehear- Britain knows that ... but ap sals and performances for such Parently it's not simple fact to shows are usually a columnist's ,he British government. A gov delight ... he can stick around eminent order reads: for a few rehearsals, hang around "If the nuts (unground) (other backstage during show nights, than groundnuts) order, the ex and stumble onto a world of ma- pression 'nuts' shall have refer terial . . . actors have costume ence to such nuts, other than catastrophes just before going groundnuts, as would, but for on stage , . . orchestra loses this amending order, not qualify music , . . curtains won't come as nuts (unground) (other than down . . . leading man's wife groundnuts) by reason of their has baby during middle of first not being nuts (unground)." act , . . etc, etc. ... but the Editor's note: Aw, nutsl of the mineral rights. of international disputes. " " ',r,h. There is one veteran of World Later, when traces of oil were This was followed In 1907 by historic employment of sane- War 1 who ' having himself an discovered near these farms, the the "Second Peace Conference", .. . . h ., a.reMion exciting time in this war. He government began selling the when 44 states representing ,, ,vent It hat remained 1 Maj. Gen. Frank E. Howe, re- . i nt . T for the United Nations to make J"" Pe0pn1 representative of i-ono riane on moving i rue Cache. Okla., Oct. 21 (U Pi Two Fort Sill army lieutenants today held the dubious distinction of being probably the only fliers ever to land an airplane on a moving truck. Lieutenants Will B. Castle and Richard E. Bywaters were shooting a practice landing with their light liaison plane on a normally-deserted road In the Wichita mountains wildlife refuge yesterday and didn't tee the flat-bed truck. None of the truck's three occupants was hurt at the pro peller pierced the steel-plated cab In several places. u- .-. .!.. rresioeni iruman. such sanctions. Lowe 1"" been """""l" . .m j u . . . rmy in operation at divisional Now this daring bu for un- and regimental levels and not aieiy .uwcroim ,..... f ,tar.,tudded hiiher leading to the adoption of per' manent measures that will pro vide the U. N. with the machin ery to deal with aggression. Perhaps It Is too much to hope that this will prevent any Modest S-Year-Old Hero Philadelphia. Oct. II M"" When George Hewlett showed up for his sixth grade classes with dripping nothing. Hit teacher asked "How come?" George, who Is 11 years old, explained that he had paused on his way to school to resent eight-year-old Evelyn Earl when the little girl fell from a bridge Into Pcnnypack ereek. Hit teacher tent the school boy home for torn dry clothes. echelon. He has been under fire fre quently. He was with the bat talion which first entered Pyongyang. Somewhere In Pvonsvam lurtner aggression, bui h is ine Colonel Crombez probably op- , most powerful move In that ened a bottle of champagne andi direction yet made. drank a toast to the success oP Centainly It will encourage hit regiment which first entered small and weak nations to go the city. ahead ln working out their own General Allen gave Crombei destinies without fear of assault the bottle with orders that it nol by great powers with evil de- be opened until Crombez reach- signs. ed Pyongyang.
