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EDITION
65th Year, No. 44 EST.-.
Claim Oregon
Dump (or Low
Grade Meals
Charges Made
At Hearing of
Meat Inspection Bill
Br JAMES D. OLSON
Oregon Is being used as a
"damping ground" ior below
trade meat cuti barred from
mraketa In states eliewher by
rigid Inspection laws, according
to testimony given before the
tenate agriculture committee at
hearing on a proposed state
wide meat Inspection law.
State Senator Ben Day, spon
sor of the bill with Senator
Richard Neuberger and Rep.
Maurine Neuberger, charged
that beef animals turned down
in Washington and California,
neighboring states which' have
taeat inspection codes, find
their way into the Oregon mar
kets. "Animals which couldn't be
slaughtered or marketed in
those states, we know, are
bought up and shipped to Ore
gon and the meat-consuming
public is stuck with them,"
Senator Day said. .
Seek Inspection Service
He added that he believed
every meat purchaser should
have the protection of state in
spection so that he can buy
meat with confidence, and
"know that it is good, whole
some food."
t The bill under consideration
proposes establishment of
state meat inspection service
and an initial investment of
$225,000 for the next blennium.
The salaries of inspectors, un
der the terms of the bill, would
be paid by tb state and not the
meat industry. It was the in
clusion of a section of a bill in
troduced in the 1951 session
providing for payment of in-
of inspectors by the meat indus
try that brought defeat .to the
bin then.
Portland Opposed
J The only opposition to the
bill came from representatives
of the city of Portland who ar
gued against a section of the
bill which 'would substitute
statewide inspection for muni
cipal inspection, such as is car
ried on in Portland.
4 Concluded en Page g, column I)
Fight Looms on
Age Pension Bill
The old age pension issue,
which probably will develop
into the bitterest fight in the
Oregon Legislature, was split
more sharply Friday when pen
sion groups struck back with
bill to weaken the relative re
sponsibility law.
The relative responsibility
law, passed in 1949, provides
that parents and children of per
sons on the welfare rolls must
contribute to the support of
those persons when financially
able. It sets up a scale saying
how much the relatives must
contribute.
The Joint Ways and Means
Committee has introduced a bill
to tighten up the law, and to add
brothers and sisters to the list
of relatives who must help out
Rep. Joseph E. Harvey, Port
land, spokesman in the Legisla
ture for the pensioners, intro
duced a bill Friday that would
permit the Welfare Commission
to require relatives to contri
bute, but only after district at
torneys filed suit in each indi
vidual case.
Senate Rejects
Lieulendnl
Governor Bill
Approves Letting
Governor Postpone
Hunting Season
By PAUL W.' HARVEY JR.
(Ajwohtoa ! Oormpcoatntl
The Oregon Senate defeated
23 to 7 Friday a resolution to
create the office of lieutenant
governor, and gave unanimous
approval ef a bill to let the gor-
ernor postpone all banting .sea
sons daring forest fire hazards.
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger,
Portland Democrat, argued that
hie lieutenant governor mea
sure would let the people decide
who should succeed the gover
nor when he is absent from the
state, dies or resigns.
The president of the Senate
now succeeds to the office.
Asserting that Oregon has had
good Senate presidents who
have made fine governors, Neu
berger argues that the principle
is wrong whereby 16 senators
can decide who might become
the governor.
Senators Experienced
Sen. Rex Ellis, Pendleton,
chairman ot the Senate Resolu
tions Committee which recom
mended defeat of the resolution,
said it's better to have Senate
presidents succeed to the office
because they are more experi
enced than anybody who would
be elected by the popie. .
(Concluded on Page S, Column I
Knight Heads
Oregon Journal
Portland W William W.
Knight, general manager of the
Oregon Journal, was named pub
lisher Friday to succeed P. L.
Jackson who died last Saturday.
Mrs. Maria C. Jackson, widow
of the Journal's founder, C. S.
Jackson, and majority stockhold
er, announced Knight's selection
and added: . v
"I want Portland and all the
world to know that the Journal
has not been and Is not for sale.
This was in response to rum
ors suggesting that the publish
er's death might lead to sale to
Samuel I. Newhouse, of Newark,
si. J., owner of the Oregonlan,
Portland morning newspaper.
"We long ago provided that
the Journal will remain a home
owned newspaper," Mrs. Jackson
said. She Is 90 years old and
ultimate disposition of her stock
has been a matter of conjecture.
She did not elaborate on that
point.
Knight, 44, an attorney, joined
the Journal staff in 1946 after
serving as secretary, of the Pad
fic Northwest Newspaper Asso
cltlon. He became Journal gen
eral manager 13 months ago.
Shotgun Wound Fatal
ToWarehouseWorker
Mill city ' A local ware
house worker died here Thurs
day evening from a shotgun
wound in what was believed to
be a suicide.
Karl Foster, 39, was found in
his apartment over the Mill City
Enterprise office after the shot
was heard. Marion County Cor
oner Leston Howell said the
death was apparently suicide
but investigation was continuing
Friday in the case. (
The man was said by friends
to have been despondent recent
ly. The body was taken to the
Weddle funeral home in Stay-
ton.
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Light Precipitation
Week-End Forecast
Light precipitation is due for
the next few days, according to
the overall five-day forecast
from the weather bureau. The
clouds and light rain prevented
colder temperatures during the
nleht and this morning, the
minimum in Salem Friday be
ing 37 degrees.
Eastern Oregon sections re
ported the more frigid tempera
tures, both Baker and LaGrande
reporting 3 above rrmay morn
Inf.
Rivers in the valley continue
to recede slowly following heavy
rains of last week-end. The Wil
lamette at Salem was down to
11.4 feet this morning.
To Stabilize
Cattle Market
Washington VP) A four
point program to stabilize the
cattle market in the face of de
clining beef prices was recom
mended Friday by a House agri
culture subcommittee.
The principal point called for
Immediate strengthening of
credit sources to provide emer
gency loans as a stabilizing in
fluence on prices and produc
tion.
The subcommittee also recom
mended stepping up military
procurement of beet, prompt
controls over foreign beef im
ports, and emphasis on meat as
an item in the federal school
lunch program.
Chairman Hope R., Kas., said
the full Agriculture Committee
would meet Monday to consid
er the program drawn up by the
subcommittee, headed Dy tiep,
Hill R.. Colo.
Hope said some legislation
misht be necessary to make
credit available to farmers dur
ing the present decline in prices.
but that the easiest method
probably would be to utilize the
existing machinery and funds
of the Farmers Home Adminis
tration. Missouri Basin
Project Sought
Washington VP) Creation of
a five-memDer xeaerai commis
sion to direct development of
land and water resources in the
Missouri basin was recommend
ed Friday fey the Missouri basin
survey commission.
Three members of the 11-
man group cnsseniea, cauing
Instead for the states in the
area to set up their own agency
to do the same job.
The commission's report,
containing both the majority
and minority views, was sub
mitted to President Eisenhow
er. The majority recommend
ed that congress establish a
federal commission, with the
members to be appointed by
the president
MARCIA SEEBER HONORED
Llnfield College Marcia See
ber, Salem, is one of 46 Llnfield
college students earning a place
on the college first , semester
honor roll with an average grade
point of 3.5 or better.
City Plans Big Project Centering about the extension of
16th street by the city of Salem, now in a formative planning
state, would be large benefits both to the city and the Oregon
' State Fair. The top picture shows where the extension would
start at Woodrow street, and in the background the oak
grove on the Fairgrounds that would be bisected by the
street as extended to Sllverton road. Property in the grove
west of the street would become a city-owned public park.
The picture below shows ground that would be acquired by
the State Fair and which could be leveled as additional park
ing space for about 1000 cars. - -
City Working on 16th
Street Development
By STEPHEN A. STONE
The city of Salem and the
Oregon State Fair administra
tion will benefit if a deal now
proposed by the city is accom
plished. It centers around the pro
posed extension of 16th street
from Woodrow street through
the State Fairgrounds to Sll
verton road. :
Senate Passes Bill
For Judicial Reform
Circuit courts of the state oflliclty Is turned on any officer
Oregon will come under closer he works harder and does a bet-
supervlslon of the state supreme Iter job," Geddes said.
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court under the terms of the
house-approved bill passed by
unanimous vote of the senate
Friday.
Sen. Paul Geddes of Roseburg,
chairman of the senate judiciary
committee, told the senate the
bill was patterned after the New
Jersey law which has operated
for the past four years with
marked success.
He declared that the bill em
bodies the first .step in judicial
reforms planned by the Oregon
state bar to improve the Oregon
judicial system.
Sen. Geddes said that one
of the features of the bill pro
vides for full publicity on the
conditions found In the circuit
courts by the supreme court
- "When the spotlight of pub-
The proposed law, which now
will be sent to the governor for
his consideration, is not solely
in the Interest of lawyers, Sen.
Warren A. Mclnlmee of Tilla
mook said, but will benefit the
public by speeding up hearing
ot cases, hearings which he said
were not held in many counties
for months and months and even
in a year's time after filing of
the case.
Under the bill, the chief jus
tice of the supreme court, will
administer supervision of the
lower courts and make all as
signments of judges from c
district to another.
Geddes told the senate that
under present statutes the chief
Justice could make assignments
(Concluded ea Page (, Column z)
To Congress
Washington VP) Sen. Ives (R.,
N. Y.) Friday proposed a new
way to deal with national emer
gency strikes: Put the disputes
up to congress.
The New York senator said he
was offering his proposal as an
amendment to the Taft-Hartley
labor law. At the same time he
urged repeal of the law's injunc
tion provisions.
Ives' proposal came as the sen
ate labor committee postponed
hearings on proposed amend
ments to the law.
The national emergency strike
has lone been a thorn in labor
legislation. T-H takes care of
such strikes by empowering the
president to seek a court injunc
tion barring such strikes for an
80-day "cooling off" period
while an impartial fact-finding
commission studies the dispute.
Priest Expelled
As Aoostate
Boston VP) The Rev. Leon
ard J. Feeney, the priest who
Insisted non-Catholics cannot at
tain salvation, has been excom
municated by the Roman Cath
olic Church.
The order was issued by the
Sacred Congregation of the Holy
Office In Rome and made public
Thursday night in the Pilot offl
cial publication of the Boston
Archdiocese.
But the 55-year-old priest re
fused to acknowledge the dic
tum, declaring "I am not ex
communicated. I am once more
excommunicated through chan
nels of the Boston newspapers."
He did not elaborate.
Fr. Feeney 's stand on salva
tion previously had resulted in
the loss of his priestly functions.
That occurred In April, 1949
through an order by Archbishop
Richard J. Cushing which also
barred Catholics from frequent
ing St Benedict's Center, Cam
bridge, where Fr. Feeney s fol
lowers attend classes run by the
rebellious priest
ENGINEER'S DINNER
Eugene Sidney Little, dean
of the school of architecture at
the University of Oregon, will
speak to the MWV section ot the
Professional Engineers on Co
operation Between Architects
and Engineers at a dinner meet
ing at the Osbum hotel, Eugene,
Friday, Feb. 29, at 6:30 pjn.
As worked out by the city
enKineerlng department it
would make a. new arterial
street from Silverton road into
the city; give Salem another
public park; vastly Improve
traffic and parking facilities for
the State Fair: and relieve a
year-round traffic problem that
will be complicated when tbe
by-pass route of Highway 99E
goes into service.- .
Parties to the ! deal which
would involve an exchange of
properties, would be the city of
Salem, the State Fair board,
Willamette Cherry Growers,
Keith Brown and Lawrence N.
Brown. While no actual ex
changes have yet been made,
interested parties have been
contacted by City Engineer J.
H. Davis and have indicated
they would approve the deal.
These include the State Fair
management, but not the Fair
board, which it is understood,
will consider the proposal at its
next meeting.
Street Cots Through Grove
If and when 16th street is
extended it will become the
west boundary of the Fair
grounds. It will go through the
oak grove at the west side of
the Fairgrounds, utilizing a
strip of pavement already In
the grove, which will make it
necessary to fell only a few
trees. The property within the
grove between 16th extended
and the Southern Pacific rail
road would become city-owned
and be made a public park.
The bus terminal for State Fair
visitors, which is now a trian
ble west of the railroad, would
be moved to a point on 16th at
the edge of the Fairgrounds and
convenient to the main entrance.
(Concluded on Pare g. Column 4)
Boeing Builds
Jet Transport
Portland W The Boeing Air
plane Co, plant at Seattle has
under construction a Jet trans
port designed for commercial
use that will outstrip anything
that the British can produce for
some time.
That was the report of Robert
H. Harlan, a Boeing engineer,
to the Oregon Society of Auto
motive tnglneers here Thurs
day night.
Despite appearances to the
contrary, the United States is
ahead of Great Britain in jet
transport development, he said.
Harlan said the British Comet
Jet transport now operating on
Kheduled flights from London
to Johannesburg Is designed to
carry 30 passengers a maximum
of 1,500 miles. Another Comet,
designed to carry 68 to 71 pas
sengers will not be In produc
tion before 1936.
That plane will not be com
petitive with the Jet transport
prototype now under construc
tion at the Boeing plant," he
said. Boeing's plane is sched
uled to fly by August 1954,
Mimm voice
Cut Out Scripts
Against Reds
Anti-Communist
References Watered
Down by 3 Employes
Washington WV Senators dig
ging Into alleged subversion in
the "Voice ot America" ei-
oped stories Friday of anti-Com-munlst
references cut from
broadcast scripts and of a
Voice" official's suggestion to
a new woman employee that she
join a eoUeetlvist group and
bear children without benefit of
marriage.
1. Virgil H. Fulling, a New
York employe of the "Voice"
testified to the senate Investiga
tions subcommittee that three of
his fellow workers watered down
anti-Communist references in
scripts until he felt he was fight
ing "sinister influences" in his
work. He named them as Harold
Berman, Donald Taylor and Rob
ert Goldman.
Friendly to Reds
- Sen. Jackson (D., Wash.)
asked Fulling: "Do you think
they are communists?"
Fulling: "I would not like to
state my opinion on that"
Chairman McCarthy (R. Wis.):
'Are you convinced they ' are
friendly to communist cause?"
Fulling: "I do believe that"
Fulling said there had been
quite a change for the better"
since the subcommittee began its
investigation.
(Continued en Page (, Cabana I)
New Zealand
Beef in Oregon
Reds Threaten
Torture, Death
To Captives
Central Front, Korea tl A
Chinese propaganda broadcast
at the front lines today threat
ened torture and death to cap
tured Americans or South Ko
reans.
The broadcast was a sudden
switch in the Red propaganda
line. Earlier this week broad
casts offered television and radio
sets to soldiers who would sur
render.
Speaking in Korean through
frontline loudspeakers, a wom
an warned that GI or Republic
of Korea troops would have
'their arms cut off." She said
Communists would shoot them
or "crush their heads with
rocks."
An American Infantry offi
cer said the broadcast was "the
most brutal" he bad ever beard.
The speaker warned that "very
soon we will have planes and
bomb South Korea. Then the
Koreans can go home to their
mothers and fathers." .. -
Portland VP) New Zealand
beef reached Portlandera Fri
day, with at least three meat
dealers offering it for sale.
One of them. Ken Grant said
business was thriving at 39 cents
a pound for steaks and 35 cents
a pound for pot roasts. He said
he started with seven carcasses
and had sold five hind-quarters
by mid-morning.
A number of dealers express
ed reluctance- to handle the tav
ported beef, saying they feared
adverse publicity.
Walter Upshaw of the State
Department of Agriculture said
there is one requirement to
make sales legal: the retailers
must display a sign at least a
foot high and six feet long say
ing "imported foreign meats
sold here."
Red Targets in
Korea Blasted
Seoul, Korea JJ0 United
Nations warplanes blasted com
munist targets all the way from
the Korean battle lines to the
Chinese Manchurlan frontier
from before dawn to dusk to
day.
U. S. Sabre Jets pilots dam
aged two enemy MIO-lSs and
brought their week-long toll of
the Russian made Red jets to 16
destroyed, five so severely dam
aged that they probably crashed
and 18 less seriously damaged,
a total of 39.
B-29 Superforts opened a long
day of savage aerial attacks by
hurling 220,000 pounds of bombs
on a sprawling communist head
quarters only five miles from
the Yalu river, border of com
munist Chinese Manchuria bo-
tore dawn.
I For the rest of the day em
phasis was put on fighter-bomb-
Dlincrd Cci:j
Severe Storm Sweep-.
ing East From Central
Rockies Over 7 States
-. car Uattod haa . - ,
The meet severe blbnard staea
the dtaasrr a tttraas of 194
raged screes the Bortkern plains
regies today, eloataf klgkways,
groaadiag plants and ferclag ru
ral schools to el see.
The blizard swept eastward
from the central Rockies, hitting
Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, the Da
kotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
In northwestern Kansas, high
way, rail and local traffic, were
paralyzed, schools were closed
and business was all but suspend
ed as 40-mile per hour winds
whipped blinding clouds of snow
across the plains and the tem
perature dropped to near zero.
communications Unas were
down In many sections. .
Trains Ran Late . '. ,
Western Nebraska was burled
beneath seven inches of snow In
soma sections. At Sidney, Neb,
about 40 persons were put up
last night. In the city auditorium
when they could not reach horn.
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Co. reported that high winds and
ice had downed many miles to
towns in the northeast and south
west sections of Nebraska. .
(Caatined ea Page 5,
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Extension of
Security Killed
Washington VP) The House
Ways and Means Committee Fri
day virtually killed chances of
congressional action this year on
proposals to expand the social
security program.
President Elsenhower and
congressional leaders, after a
conference on Feb. 9 on listed
expansion of social security cov
erage as one of the 11 "must
items that Congress should con
sider before a recess planned in
July.
Eisenhower, during the presi
dential campaign, called for ex
tension of the old age and sur
vivors' insurance program to
cover millions of persons not in
cluded now. These include doc
tors, lawyers, farmers and
others.
Ike Stands Pal
On POW Issue
Washington "! The Eisen
hower administration if standing
squarely behind former Presi
dent Truman's decision to resist
communist demands for forcible
repatriation of Korean war pris
oners, it was learned today. ,
Official sources said the ad
ministration, in its current hunt
for ways to end the Korean war.
. S VnruTT. itZ, Xlh nHhtteally rejected the
" N.n&?J?Z dea of buying a truce by giving
days of merciless attacks on a m on pQW f .
school west of Pyongyang, the
enemy capital.
U.S. Plans lo
Train Asiatics
Washington VP) Informed
congressmen said Friday the Ei
senhower administration appar
ently has decided to use the Ko
rean stalemate as a time to buOd
up Asian replacements for some
of the American forces there.
They said they based this In
terpretation on various evi
dences of administration policy,
climaxed by. Thursday's White
House briefing for congressional
leaders and Including Secretary
of State Dulles' news conference
remarks Wednesday.
The policy, they believe, will
be to intensity pressure on com
munist China without risking
heavy American casualties In a
spectacular effort to end the Ko
rean War.
Most of half a dozen congress
men interviewed said they
thought Congress would support
such a program. Some congress
men have predicted, however,
that strong public pressure will
build up for dramatic action.
The Allies now held 121,00ft
Red prisoners. The fate ot J8.
000 of these who refuse to re
turn to their communist home
lands is the sole issue blocking a.
truce at PanmunJomi where ri-
gotlations were recessed Oct S
when the prisoner Impasse h;d-
ened. .
Many experts believe the com
munist negotiators were hoping
that President Eisenhower's ex
pressed interest In ending the
war would prompt him to recon
sider Red demands that all pris
oners be sent home at bayonet
point If necessary. .
Building Program at
Willamette Considered
By FRED ZIMMERMAN
Whether Willamette universi
ty will adopt a long range build
ing and improvement program
may be determined next Tues
day in Portland when the board
of trustees convenes for the mid
year conference.
At that time It Is expected the
development committee, named
for the purpose of Investigating
the university's most pressing
needs, will report. President G.
Herbert Smith stated Friday he
did not know what this commit
tee would recommend.-
Asked what he considered the
most pressing building need, Dr.
Smith said a structure that would
contain an adequate auditorium
and one that would provide
space for the various fine arts
departments, would be very ac
ceptable. However, he said that
he did not know whether the de
velopment committee would be
willing to launch a financial
campaign that would be neces- porsry in nature,
sary to provide funds. (Concluded ea Page s, Comma I)
In 1944, upon the recommen
dation of President Smith, an ex
pansion program was adopted.
This Included the addition of
$290,000 to the endowment
fund; providing adequate hous
ing for men; the purchase of ltnd
and the construction of an ath
letic field and stadium; increas
ing faculty salaries; and con
struction of an infirmary.
At that time, it was thought
$230,000 would cover the cost
of a dormitory for men. Subse
quently this developed Into
$730,000 project. Tbe outstand
ing debt in this connection has
been reduced to slightly less
than $40,000. The endowment
has been Increased from $1,763
300 to $2,300,000, which has re
sulted In larger returns. The
athletic field hss been develop
ed at a cost of around $230,000
and an Infirmary has been added
which Is considered to be tern-
Byrd Thanked by
Ike on Wilson
Washington U President
Elsenhower has personally
thanked Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D
Va.) for starting the Senate
fight over confirmation of De
fense Secretary Charles E. Wil
son, it was learned today.
Byrd was the first senator to
call attention to a law which
prohibits government officials
from doing business with firms
in which they have a private
interest In the controversy that
followed, Wilson and three top
aides were forced to sell valu
able stock holdings in order to
win senate approval.
Close friends ot the senator
reported today that Mr. Eisen
hower telephoned Byrd recently
and thanked him warmly for
raising the issue so that it could
be met at the outset ot the new
administration.
Questioned about the Incident.
Byrd said he did not care to comment
Douglas Picked
Air Force Aide
Washington VP) President
Elsenhower Friday nominated
James Henderson Douglas Jr.,
ot Lake Forest, HI., to be under
secretary of the Air Force.
Douglas, 63, a lawyer, waa
named in place of Robert
3 prague, Massachusetts manu
facturer, who was Eisenhowers
first choice for the post but who
declined to sell family business
interests in order to accept It
During World War II Doug
las served from 1942 to 194S aa
deputy chief of staff and later
as chief ot staff for the Air
Transport Command.