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Bond Commission Hopes
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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.
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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."
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