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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1952)
Jori5i&l F,NAL THE WEATHER PARTLY CLOUDY tonight, Sat unlay. Warmer. Low tonight, 34; high Saturday, 63. 5 64th Year, No. 70 SK?.riKToS Salem, Oregon, Friday, March 21, 1952 Price 5c C apital Crackdown on State Bureau Publications Director of Finance Dorman Hits Propaganda Sheets By JAMES D. OLSON A crackdown on publications issued by state departments, both as to the size, content and grade of paper used, has been launched by Harry S. Dorman, director of finance. Dorman declared that too many of the state department publications were being printed on expensive bond paper and , carry material that he does not 1 believe is of interest to the gen- eral public. Dorman already has directed the state department of forestry to reduce the size of its monthly publication and plans a confer ence with officials of the state ' Agriculture department regard ing its magazine. Agriculture Magazine "The current issue of the Ag riculture magazine is devoted al most entirely to pictures and ar ticles regarding members of the department staff from the direc tor down to the secretaries," Dorman said. "This may be nice for the em ployes but I have serious doubts if the running of these articles is of any general interest to the agriculture people of the state. Dorman is also conferring with officials of the board of higher education in an effort to reduce the number and size of publica tions issued by the various schools and departments operat ing under the jurisdiction of this board. Monthly Publications He said that the board of high er education officials are very cooperative and he feels certain that some substantial savings can be effected in the publications cost of the board. Dorman said that dozens of state boards issue publications monthly,, quarterly and some just at various times. "It is a case of taking one at a time and endeavoring to ap praise the value of each publi cation," Dorman continued. "We must confer with the officials of (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) Williams Given Two Big Jobs Seattle m W. Walter Wil liams has two jobs chairman of the Washington State Republi can committee and the National Citizens for Eisenhower commit tee and he intends to keep them both. He is due in Seattle Friday to present his position to top Re publicans, some of whom are de termined he can't campaign for Ike and lead his party at the same time. They are the repub licans who prefer Sen. Taft's candidacy for the presidency over that of the five-stargeneral Williams told of his Eisenhow er plans in Washington, D.C. Thursday, then hopped a plane to Seattle and a meeting with state LrUF bigwigs. He said in Washington that he would divide his time between Washington State and New York City, where the Eisenhower of fices are. His main job for the general will be to whip up na tional grass roots support for the general. Spring Greeted By Cold Wave As if winter were giving the hearty horse laugh to all this chatter about spring arriving, thermometers in Salem skidded down to 27 degree, five below ireezmg, ior ine r naay morning minimum. Pretty heavy fog hung over much of the city early this morn ing, too. However, sunshine and blue skies were out by noon and there was some hope spring actually may be coming along. Slightly warmer temperatures are in the offing for Saturday, and the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies with some prospect of a little more fog the early part of the day. New snow was reported for the high mountains, and the highway department sent out its warning to motorists to have chain if traveling any of the pass routes. Weather Details Mftxlmnm Teiterdar. SI: minimum tmti 7. Total 24 -hour precipitation, trice; for month, i.m; normal, J. SI. Sextan precipi tation, 87.3?: normal, M.A9. River hlfht, 1.4 feel. (Report bj U. 8. weather barei.) Steel Industry Asks Price Hike On Wage Raise OPS Rules in Favor of Union but Opposes Cost Offset New York W Steel Indus try leaders are determined to seek price relief which they contend is necessary if increas ed wages are granted, economic stablizer Roger L. Putnam in dicated Friday. Putnam told newsmen after i hour and one-half session with 12 steel officials that the industry leaders had "asked for another meeting with the office of price stabilization." The meeting of the industry leaders and Putnam followed Thursday night's recommenda tions by the wage stabilization board that the industry grant a package settlement to end a contract dispute with the CIO Steelworkers union. Public members of the WSB have estimated the settlement at 18.8 cents an hour. Strike is Postponed The recommendation was ap proved by the executive board of the union and a national steel strike set for midnight next Sunday was postponed until April 8. The meeting with Putnam ap parently was heated at times. We used words we regretted promptly and pulled them back," he said. But He added: (Concluded on Page 5, Column 3) Warren to Run In Wisconsin Madison, Wis. U.R The Wis consin supreme court today al lowed Gov. Earl Warren to stay on the state's April 1 presiden tial primary ballot. Warren's candidacy was chal lenged by Max Folcyn, Milwau kee, who "claimed there were "irregularities" in filing the California governor's slate of 30 delegate-candidates for the re publican national convention. Polycn charged that Warren merely was a "stalking horse" for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Warren denied the charge. "We conclude that to lake jurisdiction at this date would be futile and we declined to do so," Justice Edward T. Fair child said. "The petition is denied." The court said because the Warren candidacy was chal lenged such a short time before the primary, "we think it prop er to refuse to take jurisdiction and leave the matter to be de termined after the event." The justices said Polycn could either come back to the su preme court or take his chal lenge to the national GOP con vention" which will control the qualifications of its members." Polycn's attorney, Robert Rieser, told the court earlier in the week that there was a ques tion "whether this is in fact a delegates hiding behind War- Warren slate or Eisenhower delegates hiding behind War ren's skirts." Cowlitz Closed Kelso, Wash. (U.R) The Cow litz river today was closed to smelt fishing until 8 p.m. Sat urday to allow a spawning run to escape. The closure affects both commercial and amateur smelt fishing. Catch for the sea son to date is estimated at 200, 000 pounds. Living Costs Drop For First Time in 2 Years (By the Associated Press) Borne downward by a 2.1 per cent sag in retail food prices, the retail price index showed the largest decline for. any month since December, 1949. A one-cent hourly wage cut will be suffered on April 1 by 1,150,000 trainmen and non operating railroad workers be cause of the sliding cost-of-living scale in their wage contracts. The index, as recorded on Feb. 15, stood at 187.9, com pared with the 1933-39 yard stick which is figured as 100. The index, which seeks to guage the retail prices paid by moderate-income city families, still was 10.4 per cent higher than it was when Korea was in vaded in June, 1950. It was 2.2 per cent above a year ago. Economists with the Office of Price Stabilization have esti mated the index for March also Access Roads Funds Refused Washington VP) For the sec ond successive year, the House appropriations committee has cut out a $700,000 budget item for the construction of access roads in the Oregon and Cali fornia grant lands. Explaining its action, the committee reported that "legis latio nrelating to the distribu tion of receipts from the sale of timber made accessible by the proposed access roads has not been modified and it is still the committee's opinion that the federal government should not share in further capital improve ments without deriving a larger share of the financial proceeds of harvesting the timber than is now provided for in the control ling legislation." By law, the Western Oregon counties in which the timber is located receive 50 per' cent of the timber sale revenues. The divisio nis soon to go 75 per cent to the counties and but 25 per cent to the government. W.W.P. Stock to Be Distributed New York (U.B) American Power & Light company an nounced today that it plans to distribute to its stockholders its entire holdings of Washington Water Power company. Directors earlier favored sale of the Washington Power con cern to three public utility dis tricts in the State of Washing ton. The company explained, how ever, the -"board concluded that it has become obvious that sale . . . to the public utility districts could not be consummated with in the time contemplated by the board in August when it de clared that any such sale must be one that could be consum mated with reasonable expedi tion." Washington Water Power has outstanding 2,541,800 shares of common, all owned by Ameri can. American Power & Light has 2,342,311 shares of common outstanding. California Phone Calls 10c San Francisco, (U.R) The 10-cent public telephone call went into effect in California today. The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company said callers may use either a dime or two nickels. will show a cost-of-living cline. de- Sen. Moody (D., Mich.), was all ready with a statement, call ing the February decline "good news. "Price controls, enacted by Congress for the mobilization emergency, have worked and are working, despite a price control law with certain built in inflationary features," Moody said. Moody declared many will base the slight drop as an argu ment for suspending price con trols, or dropping them entire ly. Washington (1 The cost of living as measured by the gov ernment, dropped 0.6 per cent in February, in the first decline since last June, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Dedication His Excellency, the Most Rev. Edward D. Howard, Archbishop of Portland, in Oregon, leads procession of Bishops, Abbots, and priests into the new Mt. Angel Abbey for dedication ceremony Friday morning. Political Guessing Game Puzzles Both Parties (By the Associated Press) The political guessing game about President Truman's and Gen. Eisenhower's plans con tinued apace Friday as the ac tive candidates for the presi dency centered their campaigns m Wisconsin and Nebraska. These were the top develop ments in the political arena: 1 A majority of 45 Wisconsin newspaper editors concluded from surveys in their own coun ties that popular sentiment Cut by House Washington W The House Appropriations committee Fri day recommended $492,434,763 for the Interior Department for the year starting July 1. This represented a slash of $133,567,037 below the $62 001,800 budget recommendations of President Truman. The sharpest cuts came in funds requested for the Recla mation Bureau, the Beureau of Indian Affairs, the Division of the Territories, and some public power projects. The reduction, carrying out the recommendations of the sub committee headed by Rep. Kir wan (D-Ohio) represents a to tal cut of 21 per cent in the bud get estimates and a cut of seven per cent below the current year level of spending. A committee report said it re flected "determination to hold to a minimum program period in which the conservation of dol lars is so important." 10 Die in Crash Of Navy Bomber Corpus Christi, Tex. W) A four-engine navy patrol bomber with 10 men aboard crashed in to Corpus Christi bay Friday shortly after takeoff from the naval air station. Navy helicopters and air-sea rescue launches found no sur vivors. Two bodies had been pulled out of the wreckage by mid morning. Divers said recovery of the remaining bodies would be a' long, tedious process. Identification of the dead was withheld pending notifica tion of the next of kin. Like a huge thumb, the giant rudder of the P4Y-2 stuck out of the bay. Personal effects of the fliers floated to the surface. A win ter flying suit, a baseball cap, a navigator's brief case and fuel cell washed ashore. The crew of 10 included four officers, two cadets and four enlisted men. Dallas Mill Slowed By Mountain Snows Dallas Deep snow in the Falls City and Snow Peak dis tricts have slowed logging op erations to a point forcing the Willamette Valley Lumber Co. to go on a three-day work week at the Dallas mill. The announcement was made by Paul Morgan, resident man ager of the mill, when work crews were dismissed Wedncs day for the remainder of the week. .favors Sen. Taft of Ohio for the GOP presidential nomination and Sen. Kefauver of Tennessee for the democratic nomination. The state holds its preference primary April 1. 2. The New Jersey battle be tween Gov. Driscoll and Taft was heightented by a consolida tion of Eisenhower forces in the state and a suggestion that Dris coll run for vice president on the general's ticket. Official word was awaited from the Ohio senator before any action is taken to actually keep his name off the ballot. Taft declared he was pulling out of the New Jersey race be cause Driscoll "had broken his word" in endorsing Eisenhower. The governor said Taft stepped out because of his "successive setbacks in New Hampshire and Minnesota." 3. An Associated Press poll in South Carolina indicated the state's eight electoral votes may go to the republican candidate if the democrats nominate new deal" candidate. MacArthur as GOP Dork Horse Washington (U.R) Gen. Doug las MacArthur is the man most discussed here as a compromise presidential candidate if Taft and Eisenhower forces deadlock the republican national conven tion. Some of the top republicans m town are convinced Mac Arthur will be nominated. The general, himself, disclaims presi dential ambitions. He has asked that his name be kept out of presidential primaries, and New Hampshire he counselled his friends to support Sen. Rob ert A. Taft, R., O. So, MacArthur is not acting like a candidate. But he talks like a candidate. In a series of speeches since President Tru man fired him from far eastern command, MacArthur has blist ered the administration. He is against the president's methods, foreign and domestic. Mac Arthur will continue his anti- Truman campaign Saturday in a speech before a joint session of the Mississippi legislature. A Taft-Eisenhowcr conven tion deadlock is far from im possible. Before the president ial primaries began Taft gener ally was judged to be far out in front in the race for republican presidential nomination. New Hampshire and Minnesota pri mary returns have established Gen, Dwight D. Eisenhower as a strong contender. There is no sure winner yet in sight. The issue may easily Dc in doubt until the last roll is called at the Chicago conven tion next July. Former Gov. Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota is in the race hoping for a dead lock and to become the com nromlse nominee. So is Gov. Earl Warren of California. Farm Bureau Asks Milk Control Change County dairy chairmen of the Oregon Farm Bureau Federation asked Friday for changes in the state milk control law. But they wouldn't say what changes they requested. They announced the changes would make the milk law "more work able and more beneficial to the producing dairymen." Chinese Cross Intolndochina, Fight French Lovett Reports Same Type of Red Build-up As in Korea Washington VP) Secretary of Defense Lovett said Friday the U.S. has been told some Red Chi nese forces have crossed the border of Indochina to join Com munist-led natives fighting the French. It is "always possible," Lovett told the House Foreign Affairs Committee, that the develop ment could lead to the same type of Chinese buildup that preceded their entry into the Korean war. Rep. Mansfield, D.-Mont., had asked Lovett about testimony Thursday by Secretary of State Acheson "to the effect that some Chinese Communists had crossed the Indochina border" to join the fighting, We have been so informed,1 Lovett said. Foreign Aid Program The two cabinet members were called before the committee to answer questions about Presi- dent Truman's $7,900,000,000 foreign--aid program. Their statements marked the first official American report of involvement by the Chinese Reds in the bitter fight for Indochina, gateway to Southeast Asia. Chinese Communist forces have been reported building strength for weeks near the Indochina border. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 6) PU Urges Order On Truck Rates Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel today auth orized trucks transporting house hold goods to adjust their intra state Oregon rates to conform more closely with charges for similar transportation in inter state commerce. Heltzel said the authority was granted to enable the carriers to earn sufficient revenue to cover increased cost of operation and continue to furnish adequate and satisfactory transportation service. The adjustments, Heltzel said, consist of both increases and de creases, with the increases pre dominating. Heltzels order today came after a formal hearing was held onan application of the carriers. The commissioner said little or opposition was recorded against the changes. Heltzel said his order does not grant the full relief asked, particularly in rates and charges applicable to small shipments for short distances. But he said it is his openion that the extent of the increases authorized will result in sufficient revenue to offset the increased cost to which the carriers have been subjected. The public utilities commis sioner today also granted the Portland Gas and Coke Co. auth ority to borrow $2,500,000 from Mellon National Bank and Trust Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., bearing interest at 3 per cent a year. Governor Dies Vatican City W) The gover nor of the Vatican City, Mar chese Camillo Serafini, died here Friday after an attack of angina pectoris. Fruit, Produce Firm Will Build New Plant Pacific Fruit & Produce com pany, with a Salem branch lo cated at 531 Trade street, will invest approximately $200,000 in a new building to be erected on Hines street just west of the main line of the Southern Pacif ic company. Announcement to this effect was made Friday by Sid McNeil, Salem manager for the concern. Construction on the new plant will start as soon as blueprints can be finished and the contracts let. The building will provide al most double the space available at the present location and it will be one of the most modern of the company's plants on the Pa cific coast. It will include a num ber of innovations that have proved worthwhile elsewhere. The tract of land, 176 by 233 feet, was secured in a trade for a vacant lot now owned by the company at the northwest cor ner of Church and Trade streets. Grabenhorst Brothers, realtors, Russian Church Raps Alleged Germ Warfare Moscow (JP) The campaign against alleged U.S. germ war fare in Korea is being whipped to a high pitch here. Izvestia, the Soviet govern- i ment newspaper, Friday publish ed a declaration by Patriarch Alexei of the Russian Ortho dox church and three leading metropolitans condemning al leged bacteriological warfare in Korea. Soviet press reports repeated previous charges in Pciping that the United States is now using poison gas on the Korean front. Moscow papers reported a con tinuing wave of protest meetings throughout the Soviet Union. "Wrath and Indignation" was the headline over a story of a meeting at Alma Alta. "Mon strous Atrocities American Im perialists," said the headline over the story from Khabarovsk. Plan Rescue of Cougar Hounds Darrington, Wash. (fP) Friendly help was slated today to replace the triple enemies of cold, hunger and angry eagles that have beset three cougar hounds trapped two weeks on a 4,000 foot mountain ledge. Six skilled mountaineers made plans to scale precipitous, snow covered Mt. Push, 60 miles northwest of Seattle, at day break to rescue the still-yelp' ing dogs. They became stranded on the ledge while chasing a ' cougar 15 days ago. A fourth dog es caped by leaping 100 feet to safety and landing in a tree or brush. Numerous attempts have been made to reach the dogs but would-be rescuers have beenj turned back by an 800 or 900- foot ice-sheathed cliff which it is necessary to descend. Meanwhile, Cleo Riddle, own er of the helpless hounds has re ported the dogs are still alive and fighting off attacks by an gry eagles. 10,000 Chukars To Be Raised Portland VP) The Oregon Game Commission hopes to raise 10,000 Asiatic Chukar partridges for release in Eastern Oregon next fall. The Hermiston game farm is being converted to handle 7,000 and the remainder will be raised at the Ontario game farm, the commission said. In the past two years, the commission has built up a breed ing flock of 1200 Chukars. A trial plant of 270 Chukars was made in the Warner Valley near Lakeview last October and sur vived one of the severest winters on record for the area, Norman Minnick, game agent, said. Gas Company Gets Permit for Loan The Portland Gas and Coke Co. was granted permission Fri day to borrow $2,500,000 to fi nance improvements. The permission was given by Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel, The money will be borrowed from the Mel lon National Bank and Trust company of Pittsburgh, Penn. conducted the negotiations. Plans call for direct unloading from railroad cars directly into cold storage rooms of the new plant through five doors. Track age will be available for a maxi mum of four cars. In addition there will be space for the load ing and unloading of trucks and for ample parking room for the concern's fleet of motor vehicles and for customers. The outside dimensions of the new building will be 130 by 130 feet. Construction wil be of re inforced concrete of one story. It will face Hines street from the south and will contain 3800 square feet of space devoted to refrigeration. The balance will be used for general storage and for office facilities. The Salem plant which has been at its present location for more than a quarter of a cen tury, currently has a staff of 29 persons. The property is owned by the Derby estate. Reds Propose Release of All POWin Korea Suggest That Both Sides Agree and End Deadlock Panmunjom, Korea (U.R) Red truce negotiators proposed to day that both sides agree to release all listed war prisoners without further squabbling over missing captives. The communist "compro mise" proposal provided for the freeing of only the 11,559 allied and 132,474 Red prisoners whose names already have been exchanged. Of the allied pris oners, 3,198 are Americans. It in effect would write off at least for the present 53,000 additional allied troops, includ ing 1,398 Americans, who dis appeared in Eed captivity and 44,000 communist prisoners al legedly held but not reported by the U.N. Rejected by Allies Allied representatives shrug ged off the proposal. They said it contained "absolutely nothing new." Moreover, it reiterated the Red demand for forcible repatriation, if neces sary, of all listed prisoners. (Concluded on Page 5, Column 7) More Red Jets Bagged by UN Seoul, Korea CP) American Sabre pilots destroyed or dam aged 13 to 18 Red jets in a series of fights Thursday cli maxed by history's longest jet battle. Darkening skies prevented exact assessment of results o? . 40-minute dogfight over North Korea. But pilots of F-86 Sabre jets said they damaged at least three Mig-15s and possibly eight. " - ' - : In two earlier engagements Thursday the Sabres reported they shot down five Migs and damage., five. In the 40-minute battle 28 Sabres tangled with 40 Migs in a fight running over 70 miles from Sinanju to the Yalu river border with Manchuria. The longest previous jet battle last ed 35 minutes. The fight brought the Sabres' three-day record to at least 31 and possibly 36 Red jets hit, in cluding 11 shot down. The air force said the bag of Red warplanes now stands at 232 destroyed, 39 probably de stroyed and 426 damaged a total of 697. Russian Forces Japan's Menace Tokyo, Saturday (ff) Gen. Matthew B. Ridgeway declared Friday Japan's "greatest prob lem" was the threat of strong Russian military forces already assembled north of this island nation. The supreme allied command er told a group of Japanese newspaper executives the Rus sians had completed the station ing of strong forces "including many fighter planes" at two points facing Japan. One massing point was given as near Vladivostok, the big port and base in the Siberian mari time province. The other was on Southern Sakhalin, formerly held by the Japanese. Sakhalin lies north of Japan. The editors said Ridgway as sured them he was "not upset" by unfavorable comment of some Japanese on the Japan U. S. security pact. Korean Capital to Remain at Pusan Seoul, Korea (U.R) President Syngman Rhee of South Korea said today he had given up his announced plans for moving his capital from Pusan to Seoul. Rhee told the United Press he now plans to move back and forth between the two cities. Pusan has been scat of govern ment since the North Koreans first smashed southward. Rhee was in Seoul to present citations to Maj. Gen. Thomas Cross of the U. S. Third infan try division; Maj. William Don ahue, pilot for Gen. James A. Van Fleet, and to the 73rd tank battalion which was among the first units back in Seoul in Sep tember, 1950.
