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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
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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.