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2 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, March 21, 1951 School Fund Increase Repeal Opposed by Committee The house tax committee, in an informal poll, voted 4 to 3 against a bill to repeal the $30 per child basic school fund in crease which the' people voted last November. This bill, by Rep. Giles L. French, Moro, would be referred -to the people. French's bill would wipe out $11,000,000 of the $32,000,000 annual state basic school aid to districts. The committee also decided to draft a bill to put sales tax and income tax proposals on the 1852 general election ballot. While the committee took no action on this, idea, it indicated it favored it. Under the proposal, the peo ple would be given a choice be tween a sales tax or higher in come tax rates. The people could make their choice but they also could reject both plans. The money that would be rais ed from this idea would be used to finance the state for the period beginning July 1, 1953. Vienna Group Here April 2 The second annual good will tour of "Visitors from Vienna" will reach Salem Monday, April 2, and will present a program at Salem high school auditorium at 8 p.m. The cast numbers 30 members and they offer a medley of Aus trian music, with cast members in costume. Upon their arrival in the city they will have police escort to the State House where Mayor Al Loucks will present them the key to the city, and in the rotunda of the capitol they will sing sev eral numbers, later meeting Gov ernor McKay and other state officials. The program at the State House will be broadcast by KSLM. A schedule of the time of their appearance will be published later. Price Control Calls Arranged The office of City Manager J. L. Franzen was Wednesday after noon made a clearing house for telephone calls asking for infor mation on price control. The arrangement was made at a conference of Arnold Krue ger, chairman of the Salem price stabilization committee. City Manager Franzen and Mayor Al Loucks. The telephone call is 2-4191, Extension 11. It Is anticipated that there will be a great many calls. They will be listed by the city manag er's secretary as received and lat er picked up by Mr. Krueger for attention. Spuds for Senators, Not for Livestock Do the best potatoes come from Deschutes or Klamath county? Sacks Of Deschutes potatoes, sent by the Bend Chamber of Commerce, raised this question yesterday when they were plac ed on senate desks. ' Sen. Philip Hitchcock, Klam ath Falls, whose district in cludes both counties, was put on the spot. But he rose to the occasion. Hitchcock told the senate that In Deschutes county, he praises Klamath potatoes. In Klamath county, he said, he boosts Des chutes potatoes. Fellow senators are still try ing to figure how you can win votes that way. Affront Seen in Princess Vatican Visit London, March 21 VP) A Protestant group protested to King George VI today that a visit by Princess Elizabeth to Pope Pius XII would be "an af front to national sentiment." Two other Protestant organ izations last week voiced simi lar sentiments about reports the heiress to Britain's throne might pay a courtesy call to the Roman Catholic pontiff when she visits Rome April 11. O. T. Taylor, honorary secre tary of the Protestant alliance, said in his letter to the king to day "such a visit Is calculated to create surprise, perplexity and profound sorrow among many millions of your majesty s loyal subjects." Walls 40 feet thick encircle and divide Pelping, China. On Stage Tonight at 8! "QUEEN FOR A NIGHT" The hot issue of whether to transfer game law enforcement from the state police to the game commission will come before the senate next Monday morning. The senate game committee rec ommended 3 to 2 that the bill be passed, but it made the effec tive date of the measure July 1 1952. The measure was to have come before the senate two weeks ago But the sportsmen who want the measure got it delayed because a legislative subcommittee report ed the game commission is inef ficient and negligent. The sportsmen felt that to con sider the enforcement bill while the game commission was under fire would kill their bill. The log truckers made their big move in the house this after noon against the highway com mission's bill to stiffen penalties for overloading. Led by Rep. Loran Stewart, Cottage Grove lumbermen, the truckers said they would try to get the bill sent back to the house highway .committee for amendment. The amendment they want would permit heavier loads to be hauled over certain routes when the haulers agree to pay for strengthening these roads. 6 Nominated K&F Directors Six directors, with three to be elected, were placed in nom ination for positions on the board of the Salem Knife and Fork club at Tuesday night's meeting of the organization. The nominees are Glen Bried well of Silverton and Balrd Flndley of Rickreall, one of whom will represent the area outside of Salem; Elmer O. Berg, Guy Hlckok, Dr. Maynard C. Schiffcr and Harold Tomlinson, oil of Salem. Tuesday night s dinner meet ing was in recognition of former presidents. The honor guests in cluded Mr. and Mrs. Frank B Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Phil Schnell, W. W. McKinney and Dr. and Mrs. Daniel H. Schulze. Justice George Rossman, first president, was unable to attend. The next program scheduled for April 24 will be given in the Parrlsh junior high auditorium when Captain C. R. Knight of the British army will be the speaker. There will be no din ner and members will be per mitted to invite guests. Her Legs Are Perfect John Vogel, a portrait painter who says he's searched 20 years for a perfect pair of feminine legs, thinks those pictured at left are the most perfect in America. They belong to Hollywood movie actress Julia Adams. For the rest of Julia, see picture at right. Artist Vogel, a brave man, says "90 percent of American women are either knock-kneed or bow-legged and that goes for Holly wood, too." (AP Wirephoto.) Approval Given Church Plans The city planning and zoning commission Tuesday' night gave its approval to an application by First Church of the Nazarene for a zone change at 13th and Center where it proposes erec tion of a church school building. The pastor, Rev. Eugene Stowe, and William Beaver, member of the building com mittee, said the building will go on the rear of the property, and that later a church building is planned. The zone change re quested would provide for both. The commission's a p p r o v al will go to the city council for fi nal action. Referred to the zone revision committee for study before a meeting with the state capitol planning commission was the matter of zoning the capitol mall area on the basis of legislation enacted by the 1951 legislature. The commission approved pe tition of Joseph I. Moreland for a set-back exception that would enable him to add a breakfast nook to his house at 1495 Pearl street. Also -approved was peti tion of Lee R. Clme to build a second house on property on the west side of Church between Ru ral and Oxford. Referred to the set-back com mittee was a petition of Dr. Roy Reynolds for a zone change to permit modernization of his cli nic at 1144 Center. Registration Gains for GOP A return of Oregon to the re publican registration column was predicted today by Sigfrid B. Unander, republican state central committee chairman, in a statement issued in Salem. Unander based his prediction on what he described as "sweep ing republican registration gains" throughout the state, in cluding Mutnomah county. The GOP state central com mittee chairman claimed his party had proved its worth "not only with a social sense but with a constructive approach to the soering matter of state fi- nances- As trustee for and with the people in developing Oregon for riany years, the republican par ty has shown the capacity to keep alert for changing needs in a growing state and to keep clear of improperly motivated groups mobsters and racketeers in particular. The Kefauver crime investigating committee, as an example, has not ; considered Oregon a problem in this re spect." . Unander added: "The high caliber leadership of Gov. Douglas McKay and the other republican officials is a credit not only to Oregon but to the country as a whole in these times of crisis." For the first time in recent years democrats moved ahead of the republicans in state regis tration at the time of the 1950 primary. The democrats' regis tration lead was jumped to 17,- 199 at the last November gen eral election when the list of eligible voters showed this breakdown: Democrats, 378,357: republicans, 361,158. Padilla Visits Willamette I) Sinforoso G. Padilla, a gradu ate of Willamette university with the class of 1924, returned to the campus for a few hours this week in the course of a trip around the world. He found that few of the instructors under whom he worked were still with the university, most of them having been retired. Dr. Padilla is chief of the ad visement and guidance division in the Manila office of the U.S. veterans administration. During the war he lost everything he owned when his section of Ma nila was bombed. Subsequently he and Mrs. Padilla and their 11 children fled to the northern provinces where they raised suf ficient food to keep themselves alive during the Japanese occupation. The traveller feels that the Philippines received their inde pendence at a time when the peo ple had not recovered from the shock of war and hence were not ready for democracy. Gave O'Dwyer $10,000 New York, March 21 (P) The head of New York City's uni formed firemen's association ad mitted to senate investigators to day that he handed ex-Mayor William O Dwyer $10,000 as "ev idence of support" in O'Dwyer's 1949 campaign. rL5 NEW TODAYI Double Dynamite! nXTj McCREA J- M jHiuir I t 4AJ WNTERS COLORFUL 2ND H1T1 .nSlfJGING Added! Daffy Duck - News 1 NOW SHOWING! L I I Open CMS - Slarls 7:15 I I I I James Carney I I 1 1 Virginia Mayo I I 1 1 Gordon MacRne I ( II "West Point Story" II III Hedy LaMarr Iff 111 John Hodlak Iff 111 "A Lady Without a I riSCii.Tji Mat. Dally From 1 P.M. NOW! A DRAMATIC THUNDERBOLT! Tlmherland Thrills! 1W THiTcoai ril ENDS TODAY! (WED.) "THE STEEL HELMET" and "WHEN YOU'RE SMILING" PH. 3-3721 OPEN 6:45 P.M. WOW! LOOK WHAT STARTS THURSDAY! lm Sill' JPy LOOK WHO'S BACK... "r1 , V UTtfj "V NX TO KEEP YOU IN AN ffTf CeS V-'1'" I X. y UPROAR OF LAUGHTER! Hm TI VI Hiiiiiil HAROLD Mm L L 0 , Y D lg Mf - mutt - - s..-;v-,;;-". iMns I ' -..-- . I Mm Willi JIMMY 0 NUN RAYMOND WAllURH UDY VAUIE IDGAI KINNEOY MUNI IUDCC IRANKUN PANGIOIN II0NII STANDI! m i htt,i,il., riANCIt RAMSDEN Bennett Exfolls Dr. Holy Report Out of the so-called Holy re port now being considered by the state legislature will come great good to the educational system of Oregon, believes Frank B. Bennett, superinten dent of the Salem public schools who discussed some phases of the report for the benefit of the membership of the Rotary club. Bennett stated that school business is big business" and that it requires the highest type of director for its proper func tioning. One of the questions that being asked by the smaller dis tricts as well as the rural areas when consolidation is discussed is the one concerning possible loss of local control of the schools. In answer to this ques tion Bennett pointed out that in Salem two of the five directors are from the annexed districts. Bennett can see little financial savings in consolidations but there are bound to be econo mies. Some of the smaller high schools he said were operating under' costs that ranged up to as high as $1600 a year. Salem, Eugene and other districts of comparable size operate on a $250 per pupil basis. Now, Doug, Was That a Nice Remark? Governor Douglas McKay, always quick on the trigger with a fast remark, shook hands yesterday with the 11-year-old son of a news re porter. "Are you going to be a newspaperman, too?" the gov ernor asked. "Sure," the beaming boy re plied. ' "Good," the governor said. "They sure need replacements." Court Rules on Titles of Bills The state supreme court ruled oday that a legislative act can not be amended to take in more territory than is covered by the title of the original act. The effect of the ruling means that in some cases, it will take two or more legislative bills to do what one has done in the past. The title of a bill is the state ment telling the subject of the mesaure. Robert K. Cullen, whose-statute revision council drafts most of the bills for the legislature, said the decision won't have much effect on bills of this ses sion. The court's opinion was given in a case in which the house ju diciary committee asked the court to interpret the constitu tion, which says an act shall in clude only one subject, and that the subject shall be embraced in the title. The decision settles some thing that has bothered legisla tors for years. It is the opposite of the theory that all a title is is a headline for a bill, rather than a restriction. CO-HIT! BUBBLING OVER WITH GAYETY! New Today! 0 Doors open at 6:15 p.m. "Dodge City" at 6:30 and 10:30 "Virginia City" at 8:30 2 ALL-TIME ADVEN TURE HITS - BROUGHT BACK FOR THIS SPE CIAL ENGAGEMENT! Pravda Declares Mao Now at Peiping Moscow, March 21 (P) Prav da reported today that Mao Tze Tung, leader of the Chinese com munists, is in his capital at Peipmg. (There has been much specu lation lately on the whereabouts of Mao, who has not been heard from since his last public ap pearance in Peiping January 26. The Place To Go is Shattuc's Chateau Price Control Time Extended Rnmn Snlpm merchants had re ceived unofficial word Wednes day of an extension of time for filing "pricing charts ' with the government, but definite word did not reach here until after noon. From Washington came a press disDatch saying that more than 200,000 big and little retailers have been given more time to file "pricing charts" with the government. The office of price stabiliza tion extended the deadline from March 29 until April 30. Al though the action was announced Monday, many retailers were slow in getting official notification. The general ceiling price reg ulation 7 issued late in February required the retailers to make up the charts covering sales ol goods being brought under margin-type price control. OPS said the task of listing the thousands of articles was so big retailers could not get the charts completed by March 29. A report from the district of fice of price stabilization in Se attle said: An extension from March 29 to April 30 in the dead line for price chart reports by retailers of drygoods, apparel and household furnishings was reported today by the district of fice of price stabilization. The reports are to give average re tail markups from wholesale prices. Forlin Here to Confer On Civilian Defense Arriving here Wednesday from Sixth Army headquarters was Lt. Col. Thomas Fortin, here to confer with State Civilian De fense Director Jack Hayes and state civilian defense eofficials, The colonel, one of the Sixth Army officers loaned to the state by Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer, Sixth Army commander, to set up a state-wide civilian system, is returning here to review the progress of the program to date and to advise the state council on further activities. Fortin will be in Salem Wed nesday and Thursday will go to Portland with Hayes to confer with civilian defense eofficials. He plans a two-day stay in the state. Little Hoover Report Final Oregon's "Little Hoover" com. mittee on reorganization of the state government made its final report today after two years of study. The committee called for in creased legislative attention to state administrative problems, and suggested a legislative inter im committee might study whether the state constitution should be revised. This latter committee could recommend to the 1953 legislature whether a constitutional convention should be held. The committee's main recom mendation was to create a state department of finance and ad ministration. This department would take over the state budget division; the. accounting divis ion of the state department, the state printing department, and the state purchasing department. STARTS TODAY OPEN 6:45 VmGSOLMCMS St' MMilM, f 1IML.V - w . sUrrini BEBOHAHKERR STWTOTGER, RICHfflDUMI Plus "CASSINO TO KOREA" starring American G.I.s in Action Depoe Bay, March 21 01,(9 Whales, mostly in pairs, have been reported close to Lincoln county beaches this week. Sev eral of the huge mammals were reported spouting and cavorting within sight of the Coast highway. SPRING DANCE This is it! First day of spring . . . Wednesday CRYSTAL GARDENS Dancing 8 to 12 Free Instructions 8 to 9 Modern and Old Time Music by Pop Edwards wunm mm. 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