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J8.00: Year, $12. 4 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, Jan. 21, 1952 AN ELECTION YEAR BUDGET In President Truman's budget message, with its astro nomical figures for spending, he asks for more than a quarter billion dollars for water, power and flood control projects in Oregon and Washington, $251 million for work on the projects in fiscal 1953, compared with $ 196 million in fiscal 1952. Mr. Truman said the coming fiscal year will mark the second step in a planned speed-up of construction of major power producing projects. Four major projects for the Northwest for which funds are asked would produce three-fourths of the power sought in the national pro gram, , . Three controversies are stimulated as follows In his message involving power production or distribution: Money for the Bonneville power administration and bureau of reclamation to start construction of a power line connect ing the northwest power grid with the Central Valley system of California.. A specific endorsement for construction of fuel-fired steam plants to firm up hydroelectric power in the area. Start of construction on the proposed Hells Canyon project on the Snake river at the Idaho border, with an $8,000,000 Initial appropriation. Mr. Truman asked again for funds to start work on the Ice Harbor project in Washington for which congress rejected a $4 million request last year. This year he asked for $5 million for Ice Harbor and Hells Canyon, two of the four new starts in water projects requested in the budget. About $128,000,000 was asked by the president for work on The Dalles and McNary projects in Oregon and Chief Joseph in Washington, almost double fiscal 1952 expenditures. The projects when completed will have a capacity of just over 3,000,000 kilowatt hours. The Columbia basin project in Washington was listed for $20,917,754, compared with $26,869,457 being spent in this fiscal year. The money would be used to complete the Grand Coulee pumping plant, to build canals to bring water to some 60,000 acres of land, for additional switch yard equipment at Grand Coulee, and to continue a bank stabilization program along the east bank of the Colum bia just below the dam. The president's budget also calls for $67,696,000 for the Bonneville power administration, to build up the BPA system in anticipation of power output in 1953 and 1954 from such dams as Hungry Horse in Montana, McNary and Detroit in Oregon, and the Rock Island project of the Chelan county utility district in Washington. Requests for fiscal 1953 for the northwest projects follow : RIVER AND HARBORS: McNary $68 million; The Dalles $37.5 million; Chief Joseph Dam $25.3 million; Willamette river bank protection $400,000; Ice Harbor $5 million, total $134.2 million. FLOOD CONTROL: Detroit dam $10.7 million; Lookout dam $17.25 million, total $27.95 million. BONNEVILLE DAM ADMINISTRATION (Construction only): $67.7 million. RECLAMATION: Deschutes project $174,643; Klamath project $366,000; Columbia Basin project $21 million; Yakima project, Rose division $151,500. Totals $21.6 million. Totals, all projects $251.5 million. Other water power and flood control projects, etc., in other parts of the nation, like the vast Missouri Valley project, are similarly well cared for by the president in his budget message something for everyone but it can be realized this is an election year. 18 MONTHS LATE Senator Taft of Ohio made a surprising statement over the week-end. He declared that if the Korean truce talks fail, the United States will "have no choice" but to fight an all-out war with Red China. He added, however, that he hoped the truce negotiations would succeed. This is the same Taft who in July, 1950, attacked even partial mobilization of the nation for the war that started in Korea a month before. Said Taft at that time: "I am not at nil confident that the Russians contemplate an all out military Bttack at any time, or that there is any cer tainty of a third world war." He could not foresee any possible spreading of the Korean war. Eighteen months later Taft expresses a willingness to approve an all-out war against Red China. Docs the Ohio senator, who would like to be president, believe that the limited war can be developed into a full-scale one merely by saying, "Go ahead"? It is this failure to grasp the ways of world affairs that has brought deserved criticism on Senator Taft. De spite what his backers say in his behalf, Taft himself shows that he has not yet an understanding of the inter national scene that would be required of the man in the White House. Those, like Bernard Baruch, who called for all-out mo bilization after the outbreak of the Korean war, feared the fighting in the Orient might result in full-scale war eventually. They realized, too, that to be able to fight such war if required, time would be needed to build up the nation's military forces, industries and supplies. Air plane production, for instance, is lagging discouragingly behind now because the Truman administration and Con gress would not mobilize the nation's strength swiftly enough in the middle of 1950. Taft, who was one of those not willing to go along even on a partial mobilization back in those hazardous days of July 1950, now is ready to order out what forces that have been assembled into an all-out war in the Orient if need he. It is encouraging to find that he would not block such action if the decision is made that there is no other choice but bombing of Chinese air bases and communications in Manchuria if the peace talks collapse completely. But his late awareness indicates again that he doesn't have the background on foreign affairs that he should, or he would have approved mobilization in 1950 that would make all out war possible now if determined necessary. It's Later Than You Think Watertown, S.D. (ll.R) The "Foar-Score-and-Trn elub," restricted to women 70 years old or older, was organised here today. The club mottoi "Enjoy yourself. It's later than yon think." BY BECK WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND BY CARL ANDERSON Actions You Regret Truman Said He'd Understand Henry Kefauver's Desire to Run POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Should Congress Be Put On TV For Many to See? By ARTHUR EDSON (For HAL BOYLK) Washington P Three con- for even light-minded onlookers, gressmen have been warmly de- variety of subject matter to out bating the question: "Should match the finest variety show." Congress be put on television?" I don't believe this is quite Typically, they have come up the way I would describe Con with three answers: Yes. No. gress. Ves-and-no. ... The debate, prepared for a And after getting his breath magazine put out by the Acad- back, Wiley seems to shy away emy of Radio and Television Arts from it, too. and Sciences, appears in the He would like to see joint ses "Congressional Record." sions of Congress televised, as You, too, may have wondered they are now, and important why it's not impossible to see hearings, as they sometimes are Congress In action (I use the now. word loosely), so let's have a But Wiley foresees numerous look at the arguments: difficulties in televising actual House and Senate debates. He Yes, emphatically, says Rep. fes one problem with admir Javits (R., N.Y.). His view: abIe frankness. ,,, ... ., ,. ... "In the Senate, he said, "it "We are arbitrarily lim.ting ,d fc difficult' if not impos. the scope of our democracy by tQ forc(J a'iimitation on .v....g .m ums debate and thus prevent 'hogging of the TV camera." " By DREW Washington Only two peo ple knew exactly what happen ed during the 30 minutes when Presient Truman and the man who may take over the leader ship of the democratic party Kefauver of Tennessee met to gether at the White House. However, part of what they said has become known to inti mates, and here is a brief sum mary of what happened. What Senator Kefauver did not know was that congression al friends of Speaker Sam Ray burn, who not only want Sam to run for president but are jealous of their old Tennessee colleague In the house of repre sentatives, had carefully arrang e to plant some anti-Kefauver poison with Mr. Truman. They had Congressman Mike Kirwan of Youngstown, Ohio, one of the most astute demo crats on Captiol Hill, call on the president just a few minutes be fore the Kefauver appointment for the purpose of prejudicing the president. Regardless of what Kirwan may have told Truman, It had no outward effect. For, when the tall senator from Tennessee entered, the president was most cordial. PEARSON blood plasma recently shipped to Argentina did not come from people who donate voluntarily to the Red Cross. This was "commercial blood" sold to Sharpe and Dohme, a pharma ceutical house, by professional donors who were paid by the drug firm. The army will not buy this commercial plasma, but only accepts blood donated through the Red Cross. So this material was not being diverted from troops in Korea. . . . Fur thermore, only 29.8 pounds of plasma was shipped, not a ton, as stated in newspaper accounts. . . . The erroneous estimate of a ton of blood came from the fact that a saline solution and other material necessary for the administration of the plasma ac companied the Argentine ship ment. The government has strict rules governing the shipment of this commercial blood out of the country, and only a limited amount can be exported in any one period, none of which can go to Russia or Its satellites. - ' I I ( REPORT ) 1 - , CARD I ASTONISHED BY 20TH CENTURY CRIME CLEANUP For the first time In years the crime-ridden District of Co lumbia is getting a good going over. Credit for cleanup goes to a lot of people: forthright Sen. Matt Neely of West Vir ginia who hasn't pulled a single punch . . . Arnold Bauman, the Churchill Is the End of Era But Can't Seem to Believe It By JAMES MARLOW Washington- (yP) Winston 19th century Britain In which Kefauver was just as modest as Truman was genial. Prob ably he did not know about the strategy to prejudice the presi- Eard.hi-ttm'g New York atto'r Churchill looks like what he Is, he grew up was the greatest rlnt hnf if Vin hnH knnurn his . - ... ' a man nf 11 Kind p nnwpr nn parth' Tnmmprp. strategy could not have been better. whom Neely put in charge of the congressional sessions, Even Javits won't go whole hog. He would limit television to major debate. This, he said And indeed it would. Sinnp I don't own a television would bring enough additional scti j can be neutral on this, information to the people to Some 0f the finest, most ex make for better government. citing moments I ever have had have come while watching Con No, emphatically, says Senator gress. But the average, routine Gillette (D., Iowa). session offers few lures for the "Congress is a deliberative television-watcher wanting a and legislative body," Gillette quick thrill, said. "It is not a theater, a A look at an average Senate music hall or a sports arena." day might be helpful. He thinks television would be On this average day the main a distraction, and that Congress items were (a) the introduction should stick to deliberating and of a universal military training legislating. bill, and (b) a discussion of a proposal for home rule for the Yes, and no, says Senator Wi- voteless citizens of Washington. ley (R., Wis.). The talk went on and on, for Wiley gets off to this glorious four hours and 46 minutes, start: By Wiley's standards, the Sen- "Congress, at least in some re- ate came in with only a 50-590 spects, provides perfect mater- rating this day. The session cer- ial for TV. tainly provided some news- "The Senate and House have worthiness, and heaven knows more drama than the most su- there was a variety of subject perb television playhouse, more matter. But no superb drama, news-worthiness than the most no occasional humor to furnish up-to-the-minute video televis- splendid refreshment for us Ion news reel, occasional humor light-minded onlookers, to provide splendid refreshment See what I mean? Red Objector to Singing Hushed With V. S. 7th Division, Korea W) A Communist soldier in a frontline bunker barely 20 yards from American posi tions hurled insults at his' foes, but was effectively hushed. Infantrymen of Company 1', 32nd Buccaneer regiment, were engaged in barber shop harmony more volume than quality. The Red interrupted: "You guys can't sing!" Cpl. Felix Fratto of Salt Lake City, hollered back "You couldln't do any better." The Red then did a near professional job with "Tennessee Walts." But the company commander, Lt. William Glenn of Port land, Ore., made a suggestion. Soon the American troops were singing "God Bless America." That silenced the Communist. OPEN FORUM Motorists Beware To the Editor: One Sunday afternoon I washed my car and noticed my license had been ex pired for two weeks which was violation. But it would have been nice If notices would be sent to auto owners like the in surance companies do, even though lt may cost the state a few dollars; license plates In creased from $5 to $10 in one year. As I was driving from Silver ton to Salem on a Monday morning to get plates I was stop ped by an officer who noticed the expiration because the plates were nice and clean, (I should have left them dirty) and wrote me a ticket for the court In Sil verton. My fine was $9.50 and In the Salem court for the same violation it Is $6.50. One other motorist said his fine was $7.50. Why the difference? Next time I'll take the Salem judge. (Now about those) parking meters (armless bandits) . . . you are forced to play the coin in the slot device or be arrested for committing a misdemeanor or crime violation. They should have some change machines or cashiers for nickels and pennies or larger denominations, because while getting change you may come back and have a ticket and have committed a crime. When you want to stay only 10 minutes and have no penny, you put in a nickel. When you return and want the 4 cents change back, lt won't return them . . . And when the city first put over the meter idea, it was to make more parking space . . . With all the revenue, Including 50 cent fines and over, (there arc) not even good clean rest rooms for the shoppers from surrounding towns, tourists or local people. DICK SANDERS Rt. 5, Box 86, Salem (Editor's Note: Judge Alt Nelson of Silverton says that the law provides a maximum fine of not more than $100 and not more than 10 days in jail for the first offense of failure to display proper auto license tabs. Extenuating circumstances govern the amount of fine im posed. Judge Nelson says his usual penalty for first offend ers is $5 fine plus $4.50 costs, which is the penalty received by Dick Sanders. The judge may remit the fine entirely if circumstances warrant.) In his usual slow Tennessee drawl, Kefauver recalled that he had always supported the Truman program, had gone down the line on a lot of contro versial problems, even going further than any other southern senator on civil rights. Kefauver Asks Advice The president acknowledged that Kefauver's record was good, though they had disagreed on a few issues. The Tennessee senator then came to the point he was being urged to run for the democratic nomination and, in justice to his friends, he would have to make a public statement fairly soon. Therefore, he said, he would like to have the president's ad vice. From this point on, Mr. Tru man did most of the talking. He said that the democratic party needed new blood and he welcomed "young demo crats" into national politics. His attitude was friendly,, al most fatherly. He thanked Ke fauver for his candor. The senator explained during their conversation that he faced the deadline of February 6 in Ohio, where his supporters wanted to enter his name in the democratic primary. Personal letters from Kefauver authorizing primary delegates to support him are now in the hands of Timothy Hogan, Cin cinnati democratic leader, but Hogan has been instructed by Kefauver not to make public these letters before Feb. 1. "As the leader of our party, you have every right to know about my plans, Mr. President," declared the crime-busting sen ator, explaining that, despite newspaper speculation, this was the first time he had flatly stated his intentions outside his own family. In brief, Kefauver clearly in dicated that he would run. At no time, however, did the Presi dent tip off his own political plans, and Kefauver did not press him. As the meeting closed, the President stressed the point: "There will be no differences between us . . . whatever you do will be with my understanding." In other words, Truman did not give Kefauver his blessing, but did say he would "under stand." ... ATOMIC FEUD The army carted a wooden box to Capitol Hill last week and carefully unveiled it behind the closed doors of the congres sional atomic energy committee. . .Inside was a small-scale model of a giant atomic howitzer cap able of firing atomic artillery shells. The actual gun is so large that it must be hauled by train. Backstage between the army and air force a hot battle has been brewing over the use of atomic artillery and baby A bombs. Actually, the smaller an atomic bomb Is, the more fissionable material it requires and the more it costs to pro duce. Therefore the air force argues that our stockpile of atomic bombs isn't large enough to permit us to waste fissionable material on small A-bombs and artillery shells. Instead the air force argues that one of Its bombers Can deliver an A-bomb anywhere that atomic artillery can fire. It also argues that the risk of keeping atomic artillery close to the front is too great. The army replies that small atomic missiles are easier to de liver and that atomic artillery has an added morale value. So far, the army has been winning out. single power on earth: Commerc ially, numerically, and militar ily. It is ho longer that. Bled almost to death by war, it was left impoverished, lack ing the power and resources to pos- cleanup . . . also Russ Wiggins. He retains what he always had, relentless managing editor of the stubbornness and steadfastness. Washington Post, who kept But he's the end of an era and pounding away at the Washing- can'1 seer to believe it. ton police and crime situation He is a Product of the 19th until someone had to act. . . . century, which he loves, and is Previously, U. S. Attorney astonished by the 20th. His hold its ancient empire. Maury Fay made a sincere ef- sPeech to Congress was full of ... for to spotlight the gambling valor Dut 14 was a study of nos- As its power dwindled, so did racket here, but got the run- talSia' its prestige, for the prestige had around from the police hierar- ... Deen bascd on poWeri particu- chy. Now Neely-Bauman-Wig- n Wo" War H he was a larly among the colonial and oin hav. minnpiinp i steadfast ally, which he remains backward people. accepting Police Chief Bob Bar- now.in the struggle with com- Events in Iran and Egypt uiu.iiaiii. nc uiuue Lirnt ticai snow now mat presume jibs bui- in his talk. No one doubts his fered. word or. his intentions. People everywhere after the In the last war he showed the war began to demonstrate their profound depths of his stub- deep desire for national inde- bornness when, by his unyield- pendence. The desire had been ing will against the nazis, he there. But it had been held in carried his people to victory, check. The ruin left by the war thp f inpst Ttafft in British hits- .. i i i n linquent police is Welker of tory. ". became one of the great Idaho. Counting the colonial empire facts 0f the mid- 20th century. (copyriiht 1852) H had acquired by conquest, the During the war Churchill was nnwillinff. nr nnahle. tn fnreRPA Mother and Baby Doing Well Boston (A) Mrs. Louis Murray, about 33, gave birth to a son unattended early Monday as fire raged near her in a four-story tenament house. An ambulance and a police cruiser had been dispatched to take Mrs. Murray to city hospital. Two women, who leaped from windows, were placed in the ambulance Intended for Mrs. Murray and taken to city hospital where physicians said their Injuries were not serious. Fire engines summoned by police hemmed in the car of Mrs. Murray's husband, Kehoe, and prevented him from taking his wife to the hospital. When another ambulance arrived for Mrs. Murray,' the baby had already been born. Both were reported "doing well" at city hospital. rett, euchring Mm Into a ition where he resigned. When Congressman James Da vis of Stone Mountain, Ga., was put in charge of a D. C. crime cleanup not long ago, he fizzled. The senator who continually asks questions aimed at helping de- this. For it was he who said he had not become his majes ty's first minister to presid over the liquidation of the empire. The events that have hap pened since the war, he said, have left him astounded. And even now, in the face of facts and a diminished Britain, Churchill looks with nostalgia on the 19th century, as he re vealed in the use of a single word, "predominant." "When the war ended," he said, speaking of the Middle East, "the Western nations were respected and predominant throughout" the area. The people of the Middle East could answer this by telling Churchill the treatment the Brit- By VIRGINIA MocPHERSON from their determination not to Hollywood (U.R) Hollywood's Errol Flynn, who usually let anyone be predominant over still digging itself out of the mans-it-about-town in a slinky them. muck and mud from the storm Jaguar, bumped to work in a And Churchill proudly told disaster and some marooned jeep. A huge oak crashed into Congress he not only thinks the movie stars haven't been scooped Maureen O'Hara's front yard, other nations of Western Eu- out yet. " And Vincent Price had to hire an rope should be unified, and have Delicate celebrities who have- amphibious duck to haul him out a common army, but has urged n't had their feet wet in years of his flooded canyon home. it on them, found out not even a butler or The only good storm news But as for Britain no. He chauffeur are much good when came from Universal-lnterna- would not let Britain take part, nature starts kicking up her tional. They gave up last Fri- He still seems to think of Brit heels. day, closed the studio down and ain as different and apart from And Hopalong Cassidy's still told everybody to go on home. Europe. , perched high on his mountain- ' . Butler or Chauffeur No Help To Stars in Hollywood Deluge MAILBAG G. Y Bladensburg, Md.- -Thc top in his shiny, new, ultra-modern corral that's got everything but a road leading down to civil ization. His only communication for five days has been the telephone. "I'm okay," he reported, "as long as the stuff in the frozen food locker holds out." ... Humphrey Bogart, who could n't have gotten into his canyon home if he'd wanted to, waded hip-deep into muddy water on Sunset boulevard to direct traf fic. Hasn't had so much fun in years. ' "I couldn't get home for three days," he grinned. "I just holed up in the Beverly Hills hotel bar and stayed spiffed for 72 hours." During the week - end his spouse, Lauren Bacall, phoned irately from their mountain-top mansion where she waited out the worst rain in 12 years. "You get home here tonight," she thundered, "with milk and oranges for your son ... or else!" Bogie got. ... Larry Parks, whose front yard turned into a sump-hole, report ed the home of his neighbor, Lena Home, had just floated past his front window. One of the most nervous of the marooned celebrities was Jeanne Crain, who is waiting the birth of her fourth child. "We can't get out and nobody can get In," she phoned her stu dio. "And there's a stranded car hanging over the edge of the cliff just above our roof. "We spend all our time watch ing it and just waiting for the mud to push it on top of us." 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