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i Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 21, 1952
COLUMBIA BASIN PROJECTS
The Columbia Basin interagency committee unanimous
ly adopted a revised statement of its views on Columbia
river development at its Portland meeting Wednesday
which eliminated mention of the controversial Hell's
Canyon and Ice Harbor dams.
At the December meeting the committee did not include
Hells' Canyon and Ice Harbor as "recommended" dams
but recognized them as "an important element of the
over-all plan." This was eliminated in the new report.
Hell's Canyon Is vigorously opposed by the Idaho Power
company and Idaho state officials and business interests,
and Ice Harbor by fishery interests. The action is a set
back for both projects.
The new statement, authorized by Governor Douglas
McKay, recommended work on projects now underway
should be completed as soon as possible and that the com
mittee would endorse and support other projects "as con
tinuing studies result in agreement on those projects
which best fit into the region-wide plan and the national
emergency."
McKay's statement said the committee expects to strive
for a comprehensive, unified and balanced program for
the orderly development and effective conservation of
the natural resources of the region. Another aim of the
program was given as striving "for all necessary needs
for economic growth, with proper balance among all re
sources, and optimum distribution of benefits throughout
the area."
The governor's statement also called for advisory con
sultation with representatives of the public and continu
ous appraisal of regional resources and their utilization.
"The regional development," the statement concluded,
"shall at all times progress as rapidly as consistent with
desires of the people in the northwest, having in mind the
then current regional economy, world conditions and
budget limitations."
The projects underway include the following dams
under construction: Hungry Horse, McNary, Chief Jos
eph, Albeni Falls, Detroit-Big Cliff, Lookout Point, Dexter
and The Dalles. Also mentioned were the reclamation
projects of Palisades and Columbia basin and the Lower
Columbia fisheries program.
Technical experts from the weather bureau reported
en weather in detail on storm and flood forecasting and
artificial rainmaking and the potential importance of
cloud seeding experiments, and the existing snow pack.
The governors agreed on state cooperation with fed
eral agencies if floods materialize.
Governors Arthur Langlie of Washington and Len
Jordan of Idaho also attended the meeting. Harold T.
Nelson, Boise regional director of the bureau of reclama
tion, which would build Hells Canyon, also approved the
revised statement. "It in no' way ventures to inhibit the
president's program ... and doesn't restrict the com
prehensive plan as we know it."
TOWARD AIR SAFETY
The recent series of airplane tragedies near the New
ark, N.J., airport raises a question in many persons'
minds as to the general safety of air travel and the steps
aimed at safety that have been taken at the Salem airport.
It may be surprising to learn, therefore, that last year
was one of the safest in the history of commercial avia
tion in this country. During 1951, the scheduled airlines
of the United States, domestic and international, flew
more than 25 million passengers over 13 billion miles
with eight fatal accidents involving 178 passengers. This
adds up to a safety record of 1.8 fatalities per 100 million
passenger miles.
This means that for each passenger fatality on the
scheduled airlines in 1951, more than 77 million passenger
miles were flown. If someone were gambling on his
chances, he could make more than 3,000 round-the-world
flights, and more than 80,000 flights between the west
coast and Washington, D.C., prior to an accident. The
1951 safety record was second only to that achieved in
1949.
As for the safety precautions locally, Salem has taken
or is taking steady steps to make McNary field as safe
as possible.
With the cooperation of the civil aeronautics adminis
tration the city made arrangements for an instrument
landing system, commonly referred to as ILS, to be in
stalled. The federal government allotted the money, and
installation started about a year ago. However, because
of shortages, the glide path transmitter, a feature of the
system, has not been received. But the ILS is about 80
per cent complete and should be ready about June. The
Air Transport Association of America figures that the
instrument landing system eliminates generally more
than 56 per cent of all cancellations of flights because of
bad weather.
Supplementary to this ILS will be the high intensity
lights which the city recently voted money to meet the
large offer of funds by the CAA for that installation.
So the instrument landing system and the high in
tensity lights will increase the safety factor at the Salem
airport, as well as the reliability of air service. Also
contributing to the better operation of McNary field in
this connection is the 24-hour control tower service there.
Voman Still Alive Three Years Later
Oklahoma City (V-Remember Mrs. BeartT
She's the anonymous Oklahoma City woman who three
yean ago (aid she was given only a year to live and asked
the nation's newspaper readers how she should spend $10,000
in savings to enjoy her remaining days.
Mrs. Heart Is still alive two yean alter doctors said she
weald die from a heart ailment.
She said Ta today she is "living very carefully," adding:
"All I do Is try to forget things and Just live from day to
day. I won't permit myself even a little bit of overexertion."
Mrs. Heart received thousands of suggestions on what she
should do with the $10,000. But she decided to live out her
days frugally as usual, not spend the money and "pamper
my heart."
"I'm tickled te death to he doing so well," she explained.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Earl Warren Held Surest
Shot for GOP Victory in Fall
y DRIW PIARSON
Los Angeles The governor Secret of Warren's Success
of California was sitting in It sounds trite to say this,
Sacramento's Sutter club with but the secret of Warren's suc
Walter Jones of the Sacramento " beln ,n .eftree'y, good
auvernur in a stale mat is ex-
Bee when his "one-time oppo
nent on the democratic ticket,
Bob Kenny, walked In. '
"Governor," said Kenny,
"I've been conducting a demo
cratic underground for you for
president. Every time an east
ern newspapman interviews
you, he comes to see me after
ward and asks; 'What's this fal
low Warren really like?'
"I tell them," continued Ken
ny, who served eight years as
democratic attorney general of
California under Governor War.
ren
with the guy
lay a glove on him."
"Perhaps we ought to get a
statement from Kenny endors
ing you for the nomination,
governor,'
Jones.
OPEN FORUM
Claims Sales Tax Unfair
To the Editor; As a tax-paying debts but because they feel the
Oregon citizen, I take exception nuisance value far exceeds the)
to your editorial, "Sales Tax true value as a means of collect
Only Solution." Not being a tax lng revenue,
expert I am reluctant to write The letter you quoted of Mr.
on this subject, but after reading E. E. Evans was fine, but you
your editorial I realize that I'm missed the main point. Let's get
not writing to a tax expert eith- rid of the thirty per cent of waste
er. in state spending mentioned.
Quoting from your editorial, You must believe that some
"fairest of all taxes." I ask you waste exists or you would not
... - . . .... 1 Int.J tk. .U.H .
The ingredients of that sue- wn" " lr Dut " ft "'" " t i...
,. can be summarized as fol- ?" ame demands on the editorial as a first step to pass-
low income people as it does on mg a saies iax.
the higher brackets? What's fair My suggestion to cover any
about a tax that Isn't based on state debts after the budget Is
your ability to pay? What's fair cleared of waste and lnefflclen
about a tav that Is the same on cy is to increase state Income
able public servants, whether the necessities of life for a needy taxes. Double them If necessary;
tremely hard to govern.
cess can be summarized as fol'
lows:
1. A shrewd Instinct for
avoiding executive mistakes.
2. The selection of lrreproach'
family as it is on the most well- go even farther, triple them, pay
to-do family? There's nothing the debts, but use this establish
fair about it. d tax system based on the tax
I have been in a majority of payers ability to pay. Don't try
the states that you have men- to raise the money by stealing
tloned as having the sales tax. a penny at a time from a
t"uw uuBrnor ham-and-eaepr. .nd .it ort nf Everytime those people make a Poor mue oia iaay wnen she
fringemomems? w" LZ P-roh... they coTplaln about tag necessities of life atth.
Jie guy ana couian t even " . . ' ...... the sales tax imnoieri uoon them corner grocery.
never juinpea on a naiiejujan . ... .,...,' -"r . " 7..,,
they object to paying their state's 310 Southview PI., Salem
republicans or democrats,
3. An intuitive sense of smell
that steers him away from emo
tional issues.
In a state that has seen the
rise and fall of funny-money,
bandwagon. Frequently it would
have seemed -good politics to do
so. When he was a rising young
suggested newsman Klux KUn awept the ',tat0 llke "
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL RACE
Gov. Stevenson of Illinois
Would Fit Nominee Pattern
(Editor's note This is the ed and prospective candidates
last of four dispatches pre- for the democratic presidential
seiitlng the views of announc- nomination.)
By LYLE C.WILSON
Washington AMD Gov. Adlai better than a law.
Ewing Stevenson of Illinois Mine Safety: Believes it Is a
WnillH 1liat tthnilt HI th ripmn. rAannnalhilitv e4 UIuIPiibI
cratlc presidential nominee pat- states, not of the federal gov- nation, and also on the reason has 8ne quietly ahead working
Asks Sales Tax for Welfare
"Oh no," good-naturedly pro
tested Governor Warren, "I'm
having a hard-enough time con
vincing the republicans, that
I'm not a democrat."
'GOP Sure Shot
wildfire and manv a unHtlelan. .. J uia-Hor: z rao u iong ar-
nh . -i,.., ; .Hi:.tlcl i" the Capital Journal re-
ency than wisdom, put on the
pillow case. But not Warren.
I would much prefer revenue
from that than the liquor money.
latlng to the sales tax. I have I'm sure we old age pensioners
spoken about that several times would much prefer it from the
before, and wnnHet whv Cmann aslaa 4ov imirM Athai.
Neither then nor later has he defeated it three times, When I have it, why can't Oregon havl
gone in for emotional issues. was in California In 1935, they it, and while I'm writing, would
Some years ago a bandwagon had a sales tax there then, and bring this up: Knock that crazy
rush for Old-age pensions PUt T don't knou, hnu, Inna h.fir. Hnvltaht nulns tlm. mn n
Democrat Kenny, who is a Sheridan Downey in the senate then. I wish they would pass the R.MARTIN
sincere admirer of Governor where he promptly forgot all gales tax here. Salem
Warren, republican, put his fin- about nam-ana-eggs. warren
ger on the real reason whv GOP shunned that bandwagon with-
bosses frown on Warren's nomi- out any fanfare. Meanwhile he
Hair Firm Gets Scalped-
tern if President Truman decid
ed to retire.
ernment.
Taxes and Spending: As gov-
why more realistic republican n old-age pensions until he
leaders are coming round to the has about the best record of any
Chlcaso (U. Thieves broke Into the Grossnere- Manufac
turing company plant and stole S1,000 worth of human hair,
wigs and toupees.
Stevenson Is in the last year ernor he increased welfare and fact that the governor of Call- governor in caring for oldsters.
of a four-year term as governor, education 'spending and sought fornia would be the surest shot When the rage for loyalty
He is 52 and an apprentice sea- to economize elsewhere. He in- to win for the GOP next Novem- oaths came along, Warren also
man veteran of World War I. creased gasoline and truck taxes, ber. ' failed to lead the professional
In FDR's first-term agricul- Stevenson vetoed numerous so- For what Franklin Roosevelt patriots and put his right hand
tural adjustment administration, called pork-barrel bills and cut advised his party in 1932 "to on the Bible. Asked if there
Stevenson was general counsel, expenditures by the state veter- win we nave to wean away re- would be a purge of California
was nem Dy ine supreme ans commission, in response to m,blican voW la vn mnr.
court to beunconstitutional. American Legion protests, Stev- f,'. vrsT todav w7th
xne governor neia nign war enson tow tne state Legion con- , ' j -V,. " : ni. n
time and post-war office in the ventlon that veterans must not uT,7 ,," T, , - aluo . ,
r,o an4 ..-I. j t rr 7j built up during 20 years of The nearest Governor
employees, he replied: "No, we
never hired any Reds in the first
War
ren came to skating on thin ice
' i ovn, Wbuutuui.iiui. 4iv .sa&M UVCIIIIIICUI H1U SSM . a -n 11 m ,
helped put the United Nations "gravy train." He said taxpayers veu.iruman ruie, tne re- ren came to mating on tmn ice
together and served as a general would rebel against unreason- Publican , m"st : be able to pull was when he championed a
assembly delesate. able demands. . 01m .uuim - iraim uui,
votes to
win, and modified public - health
Wara.Prir. rnrM.. 1. ... Earl Warren is one sure shot This made California doctors
In general terms, Stevenson garded as in general agreement who can do s0, ' see red and W-'"! was ac-
is all out for Mr. Truman's for- with administration policy. How- When running for governor cused of championing creeping
eign policy, lags a bit behind ever, he said in 1950 "I don't in 1942, for instance, he polled socialism.
him. on some domestic questions, like government doles . . , sub- 400,000 democratic votes. When He has stuck to his guns,
Stevenson is not a state's sidles, I don't like interference he ran again in 1940, he pulled however, and the reason is that
rights man. But he is suspicious with free markets, free men, so many democrats that they when Warren was a boy, his
of big central government and free enterprise. I like freedom nominated him on the demo- father, master car builder, was
would leave much more respon- to succeed or'fail." cratic ticket. In 1950, despite killed by a housebreaker at
sibllity and power to the states . tne opposition of Jimmy Roose- night, and his mother was left
than would Mr. Truman. Taft-Hartley Act: Stevenson is velt, a popular and. appealing with a large family and the dif-
The governor and Mrs. Ellen not on record. But he once told candidate, Warren rolled up a ficulty of paying doctor's bills.
Borden Stevenson were divorced a CIO convention that labor ead o around 800,000 in a state So the governor knows what it's
,iv ucwiiiun, inwe was wkib limning Hn inucn thnt tin 1 nnn nnn mnva lllra n at, ur lhn,.t mu41nBl
..rol kln ....I. Mnlea aknui 14- . " "O" "....wm. .,-
tered democrats than republi- tentlon.
no scandal nor even hint of such, noise about it.
But divorce is never a political Big Government: Believes it
asset. They were married Dec. is here to stay but creates n .
1, 1928, and have three children, problem of how to' keep gov-
ernment from becoming so big
Here are some positions Stev- and powerful that it will get out
enson has taken on public ques- of the hands of the people,
tlons: Sen. Joseph St. McCarthy;
Foreign Policy: "We want no "This hysterical form of putrid
more Munichs. As much as we slander not only escapes tar and
hate war, we have drawn the feathers but actually flourishes
sword in unprecedented defense because it satisfies a deeper
of peace, security, and justice, craving to reduce the vast men
We know that force without Jus- ace of world communism to
tlce is tyranny and that Justice comprehensible and manageable
without force is impotent." proportions."
MacArthur: "No one has done - Politics: Stevenson once said
more than Gen. MacArthur to "I'm not sure what kind of
preserve our system of govern- democrat I am, but I am sure of
ment. But it is a system in which what kind of democrat I am
civilian control of the military is not. I'm not one of those who
basic. As a great military lead- believes we should have a dem
er his apparent departure from ocratic regime because it is good
fundamental military principle for the democratic party. If the
is hard to understand. Our only democratic party is not good for
compensation for a great loss is the nation, it is not good for me
the; reaffirmation of a great or the democrats."
principle."
Medical Insurance: Does not Stevenson's administration is
endorse government - sponsored embarrassed by exposure of 11
health insurance, but says mak- legal sale of horsemeat in min
ing good medical care available ois for human consumption. Fed
to all is one of the great pending eral agents exposed the situa
social problems. Believes the so- tion. So far 11 state food inspec
lutlon lies in some compromise tors have been fired and three
between private initiative and have been suspended,
government initiative. The governor recently was in-
vited to the White House. He and
Civil Rights: Twice failed to Mr. Truman are believed to have
persuade the legislature to enact discussed the possibility of Stev
a fair employment practices bill, enson becoming the administra
Presumably favors state astlon candidate for democratic
against federal legislation on ba- 'presidential nomination,
sis of his belief that states Stevenson has not undertaken
should not "abdicate" their re- a pre-conventlon campaign. He
sponsibilities. Stevenson holds would not oppose Mr. Truman
that voluntary action usually is for the presidential nomination.
Loses Eyesight in Freak Accident
Lubbock, Tex. (U.R) A freak golfing accident cost Mrs.
Pat Lindsay, two-time winner of the Plalnvlew Women's Golf
championship, her right eye.
The eye was removed after a golf ball, driven off the
No. 5 tee by Dr. Gerald Wagner, shattered Mrs. Lindsay's
sunglasses while she was sitting on a bench.
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