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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1951)
Otrff 9 mm r Bond Commission Hopes To Get Vet Pay Started Taking Their Brother Home Clps. Richard, 23, (second from right), and Henry Needham, 21 (right), salute as casket contlning the body of their brother, Sgt. John Needham, 25, is loaded aboard a train at Oakland, Calif. John was killed in fee Korean fighting last January. The two brothers, who have seven Purple Hearts between them, are taking their brother's body home to Lansing, Mich., for a military funeral. Henry has already spent a year at Letterman General hospital in San Francisco undergoing treatment for a leg lost and an arm paralyzed during a Chinese cqunter-attack on a Korean hill in September, 1950. (Acme Telephoto) Senator Says Election Law Revision Should Be No. 7 Job By JAMES F. DONOVAN Washington, Nov. 21 U.R Sen. A. S. Mike Monroney said to day that revision of election laws should be among "the number one jobs" of the next session of congress. The Oklahoma democrat told reporters that such action "should be more important next year than ever before" because of the 1952 presidential cam paign. "And the wajj the campaign Is shaping up," he said, "we ought to have some pretty good One Mess Kit Full of Chow on Thanskgiving Central Front, Korea, Nov. 21 (IP) The traditional pumpkin pifes will be made with sweet potatoes. The holiday wine will be cans of 3.2 beer. Battered mess kits will sub stitute for gleaming silver serv ice and spotless china. With those exceptions, many American soldiers on this front are going to have a real Thanks giving dinner Thursday young torn turkey and all the trim mings. One comDanv commander, Capt. Robert R. Birkhlmer of Salinas, Calif., is trying to buy flowers in Seoul for a. table setting. If he doesn't get them: Birkhimer will pick wild flow ers. The baker. Set. Charles Ef- finger of St. Louis, knew he wasn't going to find any pump kins. So he planned on sweet potato filling. Mess Sergeant 1c Robert Couch of Jackson, Ky., is pre paring a menu of stuffed celery hearts, olives, shrimp cocktail, buttered peas and corn, candied yams, turkey, hot rolls, mince pie, fruit cake and fruits. The big trouble, the soldiers agree, is going to be heaping all that food on one mess kit. Legislative Procedure Group to Meet, Salem Portland, Nov. 21 VP The newly organized interim commit tee on legislative procedures will hold its next meeting in Sa lem some time early next year. That was the report yester-. day of Sen. Thomas Mahoney, Multnomah county democrat. Mahoney was elected chairman at the group's first meeting here Rep. Kenneth Kraemer, also a Multnomah county democrat, was elected secretary. Other committee members Sens. Phil Brady, Portland dem ocrat, Eugene E. Marsh, McMinn ville republican, and Reps. Earl H. Fisher, Beaverton, Earl Hill, (Jushman, ana E. J. (Bill) ire land, Mdlalla, all republicans. The group will investigate ways of shortening the legisla tive session. Marquis de Queensbury rules on the statute books. Monroney did not amplify, except to say that the 1952 cam paign appears certain to be pretty rough-and-tumble. Monroney is a member of the senate elections committee, which plans to begin open hear ings next Monday on the 1950 Ohio senatorial campaign in which Sen. Robert A. Taft (R- 0) soundly defeated state aud itor Joseph T. Ferguson. Ferguson's supporters have complained about Taft's cam paign expenditures, and the Taft camp has objected to cam paign literature put out by Ferg uson's backers. The committee, regarding the Ohio campaign as an example ol typical hard-fought election eering, hopes the hearings will point up evils in such campaigns and perhaps produce methods to eliminate them. Taft will be the first witness, followed by Ferguson. The committee already has looked into election campaigns in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Iowa and Kentucky. Moroney told newsmen he believes revision of the elec tion laws next year is possible, provided the move has strong public support. He said he is anxious to have something done about campaign expenditures ana scurrilous literature. Under present law, campaign expenditures are limited to $25, 000 for a senate seat and $5,000 for a house seat. But there are numerous loopholes, and ex penditures by a "satellite or ganization" on behalf of a candi date are virtually unlimited. Bonus payments to Oregon veterans will begin soon if the state retirement and accident commissions will agree to pur chase $5,000,000 of the bonds. At a joint meeting of the bond commission and the advis ory committee to the depart ment of veteran affairs held Tuesday, members of the bond commission decided to invite members of the retirement board to meet soon to discuss the bond purchase. Meanwhile, L. O. Ahrens, a member of the bond commission and also a member of the acci dent commission, agreed to dis cuss bond purchases with his fellow commissioners, and said that if they agreed to consider purchase of short term bonds, he would favor a labor-manage ment meeting to obtain the views of these two groups. At the beginning of the meet ing Tuesday, after both Gov ernor Douglas McKay, who pre sided, and State Treasurer Wal ter J. Pearson expresses hope hope that the ban on sale of the bonus bonds in the open market would be lifted after the first of the year, or even sooner if the cease fire order was given in Korea, the tendency leaned to sitting tight. Decision to Act However, after it had been shown by members of the vet erans' advisory committee that delay in payment of the bonds would add to the expense of ad ministration, and that in addi tion many of the veterans and next of kin of veterans were in need of the bonus payments, the bond commission members de cided on some definite action. John W. Jones, a member of the advisory committee to the department of veterans affairs, Gunther Will Speak Thursday Paul W. Gunther, pastor of the Christian and Missionary Alli ance church, will preach the ser mon at the annual union Thanks giving service to be held at 10 o'clock Thursday morning at the First Presbyterian church. The service is under the spon sorship of the Salem Ministerial association. Special music will be provid ed by the First Presbyterian church choir directed by Charles Stowell. The call to worship will be given by Dr. Henry Marcotte, interim pastor of the host church, and R. E. Sanders, pastor of Hal bert Memorial Baptist church, will read the scripture. Korean relief will be the bene ficiary of the Thanksgiving of fering. Anthems to be presented will include "Come. Ye Thankful People Come," "Thanks Be to Thee, O Lord," "We Praise Thee, O God" and "Faith of Our Fa thers." told the bond commission that the bonus division had process ed approximately 10,000 appli cations and was ready to pay out $4,400,000 in bonus pay ments in approved claims. Governor Douglas McKay, chairman of the bond commis sion,' said that the people had approved the payment of the bonus, so he could see no reason why every effort should not be made to pay the bonus. "I don't intend to drag my feet in this matter," he declar ed. Attorney General George Nuner told the commission that state trust funds could not be invested more securely and safely than in state bonus bonds. ' Backed by Taxes "These bonds are backed by ad velorem taxes, in other words, general obligation bonds of the state," he said. "And there is nothing safer than that." Neuner said that the com mission would be justified in paying an interest rate on bonds invested in state funds that will meet government rates. Ahrens said that if his com mission decided to invest some of its incoming funds in bonus bonds, it was probable that a meeting of labor-management representatives would be called to obtain views of thes groups on the investment of accident funds in bonus bonds. At a meeting last Friday the advisory committee to the state department of veterans affairs adopted two resolutions, one urging state departments with surplus funds to invest such funds in bonus bonds, and the other advocating sale of the bonus bonds to any private group that desired to purchase them. However, it was pointed out that under the law all bonus bonds, other than those pur chased by the state, must be sold to the highest bidder and therefore the sale of any block of bonds to private investors without bidding would be un lawful. Members of the veterans de partment advisory committee said that the bonus division was operating smoothly, but. that ap plications were lagging, large ly because no bonus checks were being issued. "This means that unless some bonus payments are made soon, it will be necesary to cut down the force, and later, when the bonds can be sold on the open market, it will be necesary to build up the force again," said Jones. "This means that it will be far more costly to the de partment than if the payments could be made in the near fu ture." State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson, who suggested the joint meeting with the retire ment board, urged that the meeting be held as soon as pos- Envoy Opposed To Vatican Plan "Preferential treatment of one church" was unanimously op posed by the Salem Ministerial association Tuesday when the group adopted a recommendation protesting against the appoint ment of a United States ambas sador to the Vatican. The recommendation, present ed bythe social action commit tee headed by Dr. Seth R. Hunt ington, will be sent to President Truman, Oregon's delegation in congress and to Senator Tom Conally of the foreign affairs committee. That such an appointment would be contrary to the "time- honored interpretation to the first amendment to the const! tution, which is the principle of separation of church and state, was pointed out by the recom mendation. Furthermore the statement pointed out that the "Vatican is not to be thought of as a politi cal state, except very remotely, but is instead the seat of the Roman Catholic church." Dr. Huntington stated that the argument is not with the Catho lic people or with all that is good in Catholicism but with the Ro man Catholic hierarchy. Dr. Arthur H. Maynard, assist ant professor of religion at Wil lamette university, presented a plan for an inter church leader ship training program. The min isters directed the Christian ed ucation committee to work out schedule which, tentatively, would be held Tuesday nights from next January 29 through March 4. The course would of fer courses in Bible, administra tion, social problems and teach ing methods. Hoskins to Speak Portland, Nov. 21 VP) Lewis M. Hoskins, national executive secretary of the American Friends Service committee, will speak at the Friends' annual meeting at Newberg Saturday, Hoskins is the son of Judge and Mrs. Hervey Hoskins of Yamhill county. He is a former faculty member of Pacific col lege, now George Fox college. He has held the national post since his return from a China mission in 1950. I . . 11 l Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Nov. 21, 1951 13 Speed Little Pigs to Market St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 21 ( America's little pigs may be hastened to market with a new synthetic milk and summoned to meals with phonograph rec ords of sow's grunts. Herbert G. Luther, research scientist with Chas. Pfiber & Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., said that piglets fed the new concoction weighed 10 to 35 pounds more than normally-suckled ones in an eight-week period. He spoke at the animal nutrition sym posium at the University of Minnesota farm last night. Trade named Terralac, the synthetic contains Terramycin, an antibiotic that stimulates growth, dry swim milk, lard to supply fats, fish oils and tiny amounts of vitamins and min erals. Except for the fish oil, It tastes like heavy milk, Luth er reported. It looks like pie crust mix, More piglets can be produced with it, Luther said, promising more and maybe cheaper pork chops and bacon. McGhee Slated Envoy to Turkey Washington, Nov. 2t VP) As sistant Secretary of State George C. McGhee is reported under consideration as ambassador to Turkey. He now is in charge of Near East, South Asian and Af rican affairs for the department, This was disclosed yesterday in the wake of President Tru man's disclosure that George F Kennan, former member of Sec retary Acheson's policy planning board who is now on leave, is being considered for appoint ment as envoy to Russia. Am bassador Alan G. Kirk is report edly anxious to retire. McGhee, if he were named to the Ankara post, would succeed a veteran career diplomat, George Wadsworth, said by of ficials as probably in line for a European post. The change was said to be un der study because of the new phase in U.S. -Turkish relationi to be opened by Turkey's admis sion to the North Atlantic trea ty. Mining did not begin on Nor way's Island of Spitsbergen until 1905. wicks i ..W VapoRub J Now... to relieve distress without dosing, rub on. THE SILVER DOLLAR MAN from SAFEWAY it Coming Soon WATCH FOR HIM sible in order that, if possible bonus payments could begin within a reasonable time. CAR & TRUCK RENTALS 394 North Church Phone 3-9600 Square Dance Friday Four Corners The Circle-4 Square Dance club will meet at Four Corners Friday, Nov. 23 at 3 p.m. in Community hall. Plans will be made for the Christmas party, Dec. 14. Members of the committee in charge are Mr. and Mrs. Harold Snook, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Sunderland and Mr. and Mrs. Cal Garver. Members may bring guests. , GOP Chief Says Washington YD Protecting Subversives Seattle, Nov. 21 (U.R) Rav Moore, chairman of the King county republican central com mittee, charged today that the Young Democrats of Washing ton are attempting to provide a "protective front for subversives." The Young Democrat organiz ation, meeting at Ellensburg Sat urday, adopted planks calling for repeal of the McCarran internal security act, and limitation of federal loyalty checks to secur ity agency jobs. . "The action of the Young Democrats shows that the demo cratic party still, is willing to provide a protective front for the subversive interests which would wreck our nation," Moore said "It was fuzzy thinking of this kind by the democrats for many years which enabled the com munists to inflitrale their party in the government," he added B( bmith act was the one under which the 11 top com munist leaders were convicted The resolution on that subject urged that the law be altered "to make it clear that men cannot be convicted for their opinions, but only for their acts." 3. BUILDING MATERIALS SPECIALS Dick Meyer Lumber Co. AS LONG AS QUANTITY LASTS 2x4 8-ft. Common, $28.00 M 1x8 Shiplap Common, $33.00 M 4x8 W Sheet Rock, $1.95 per sheet " Rough Plywood at 16c per ft. Suitable for Tile and Linoleum Sub Floor Remodeling and improvement loans 36 mos. to pay, 10 down. No mortgage. Dependable estimating service. 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