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NEWBRY'S HOSPITAL FLIP-FLOP,
Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry has come up with
a plan to scuttle the plan of rebuilding the old hospital
building at the state hospital and instead give first priori
ty to the geniatrics building in or near Portland.
The rebuilding of the old hospital building was decided
upon by the former board of control composed of the
then Governor Douglas McKay, now secretary of the
interior, Newbry and former state treasurer Walter J.
Pearson. ' ,
All three members of the former board, at a meeting
in December, more than a month following the November
election, approved the plan and an observer at that meet
ing was the present . Governor Paul L. Patterson.
It was the opinion of the board at that time that the
Portland hospital, approved by the people at the Novem
ber election, was a matter that should be disposed of
by the legislature and therefore did not Include the pro
posed 13,000,000 hospital in its Jbuilding program.
Tuesday, out of a clear iky, Newbry proposed that
first priority be taken from the state hospital recon
struction and given to the Portland project even though
he joined with his former colleagues in approving the
building program which left the geniatrics hospital to
the consideration of the legislature. '
The former board adopted a long-range program under
which it is proposed to rebuild the center wing of the
hospital, together with a section in front of the present
hospital which will be connected with the present adminis
tration building. A third story would be added to this
latter building under the plan and a new kitchen, bakery
and refrigerating plant installed.
During the 1956-57 biennium it is proposed to rebuild
. the south section of the old hospital, where women are
not housed. During the next biennium the north section
would be rebuilt, and when the entire hospital is rebuilt
patients now housed in several old buildings, which are
virtually f iretraps, can be transferred into the new
hospital. '
. '
Secretary of the Board Roy Mills stated at the meet
ing that the increased number of elderly people requiring
tiiMirtfto1i?itinn wmiM rmiMrlv fflt friA PArtlanrl faiir.it.iiT.inn
And the caseload in the Salem hospital would not be
reduced materially.- .....
Just what prompted Secretary of State Newbry to
suddenly propose a switch in priorities? Governor Patter
son was clearly taken by surprise and said that he could
certainly come to no decision with the proposal thrown
at him without previous notice.
Rebuilding of the old hospital at the state hospital
has been needed for a long time, and certainly this is
no time for Newbry to throw a monkey wrench into well
thought out pians In which he himself participated.
The rebuilding of the old hospital building should go
on as scheduled, and the board of control should urge
the legislature to follow the priority program as outlined
by the former board of control, despite the sudden flip
flop of Secretary Newbry. ,
TITO'S VISIT TO LONDON
One can feel the embarrassment of official Britain
across 6000 miles of intervening space over the visit of
Dictator Tito of Yugoslavia. To say that the Britons feel
"mixed emotions" about the incident is probably putting
It mildly indeed.
For Tito is .not only a dictator but a communist dic
tator. And not only that, but a bad one even by those
standards. He has oppressed his people, purged his oppo
nents, persecuted the church. Almost anything you want
to say about Stalin will fit Tito, on a more modest scale,
commensurate with his opportunities. ,
Why, then, is he welcome to a democratic country like
Britain, to be greeted by the queen, by Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, and other dignitaries with every mark
of respect if not of affection?
Because, whether it appears to make sense or not, Tito
Is an anti-Moscow communist and therefore a most help
ful ally of the west. When America and Britain began
their nervous overtures our more "realistic" observers
warned of a probable double cross. Tito was that kind of
a guy, they pointed out, and with ample justification.
But regardless of v hat kind of a guy Tito was or is,
he had made a definite break with Moscow, which prob
ably hates him with even more fervor than it does
Churchill or Eisenhower. So he must work with us to
save his own hide, and he has. He is even veering our
way and against communist ideology in abandoning the
collective farm scheme. .
So Britain is fully justified in rolling out the carpet
for one of the free world's most valuable allies, and in
taking the most elaborate precautions for his safety, for
Mobcow would like nothing better than to assassinate him
in London. It may be hard to justify to the fastidious,
but it is literally true that in a fight for one's life, which
is what we are in, one can't be too choosy about his
associates. In top as in low level politics, stranee bed
fellows develop, Tito being
Hear Chase
On Conflicts
Portland W The Oregon
Education Association, holding
its annual meeting here, Tues
day urged the legislature to re
verse itself and approve a
state-owned educational televi
sion station for Oregon.
This action came on a mo
tion to tell the board of trus
tees to send such a resolution
to the legislature.
The delegates heard Stuart
Chase, author and economist,
tell of the causes of conflict He
said such study is into one of
the neglected fields of knowl
edge. Conflicts can be offset,
he said, by various means and
he cited labor policies of Stand
ard Oil of New Jersey aa one
mt them: workers are treated as
neither the first nor the last.
human beings, the employes
work as a team and there is
two-way communication among
tne employes.
On schoolroom problems.
irann u. Mclntyre ol Los An
geles isaid schools can't be
blamed altogether for what
pupils do, because "SO percent
of all children we deal with
are below average that's what
average means." But, he add
ed, good behavior is the rule
and not the exception among
modern cnuaren.
Classroom teachers elected
as president Kvald Turner of
Pendleton.
FRATUM CMJB DINNER
Pratum The Pratum Com
munity ciud is sponsoring a
Swiss steak dinner and enter
tainment at the Pratum school
from I to 8 p.m. Friday, March
SO. Rudolph deVrles. Mrs. Tom
Jones and Everett Fralzer are
in charge.
LEGISLATORS at Sun by Murray Wodt
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Take a Kid to Circus Even
If You Have to Borrow One
By HAL
New York -If you don't
have a child, borrow one and
take it to a circus this spring.
It's a real adventure. And
you'll learn a lot.
Such as:
1. A child's stomach will hold
more than a lady's handbag.
2. A child has a more civil
ized and humane sense of en
tertainment than the average
grownup.
Frances and I made the ex
periment recently. We took our
God-child. Nina, to the Polack
Brothers vest-p o c k e t circus,
which raises about one million
dollars a year for the Shriners'
fund to help crippled children.
Nina is blonde and five and
serious and pretty. The trip to
the circus was partly to help
her recover from a great sad
ness that threatens to Diigm
her life young her desperate
inability to grow pigtails.
"I know a little girl only four
years old, and she's got pig
tails," Nina has been saying.
'And I am half-past-live, and
dent have any. I don't under
stand that."
The circus was in the Flush
ing Armory, and when we en
tered .1 hesitated, uncertain
whether to stay or run. The
wooden stands were packed
with-hundreds of screeching,
ANOTHER CABINET OFFICE
(Albany Democrat-Herald)
President Eisenhower's re
quest of congress for the. cre
ation of anotner xuu-ueagea
department in the cabinet
brings to mind the fact that
this is the first enlargement of
the presidential advisory body
in 40 years. The last depart
ment was added in 1913, when
the department of commerce
and labor, installed In the cab
inet in the Theodore Roosevelt
administration in 1903, was
split into two departments.
The new cabinet officer, if
congress adopts the suggestion,
will be known as the secre
tary of health, education and
welfare. Mrs. Oveta Culp
Hobby of Texas, now FSA ad
ministrator, is slated to be the
new secretary. She will be
the second woman to hold a
cabinet post; the only one to
date was Frances Perkins, who
was Franklin Roosevelt's sec
retary of labor.
Only three departments have
been added since 1849, when
the department of the interior
was created,. , ,
There has long been agita
tion for the raising of the pres
ent so-called office of educa
tion to full cabinet stature, also
for a secretary of health in the
cabinet. The combination is a
reasonably logical one, as such
matters go, and the selection
of Mrs. Hobby promises an ef
ficient, businesslike start for
the new department.
BY H. T. WEBSTER-
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crying, yowling, yammering
little young hopes of tomorrow.
As we threaded our way up
the stands trying to avoid
stepping on all but the larger
children we passed a tiny lost
girl walling "Mommy! Mom
my!" We finally found cramped
seats next to a fat, lost mother,
who was calling: "Mary! Mary!
Where are you?"
Ever the Boy Scout, I said,
"Excuse' me, ma'am. I'll get
your baby." I went back, re
trieved the lost girl, and put
her in the lap of the fat lady,
who immediately said indig
nantly, "what are you doing?
This isn't my Mary."
"I'm Susie," said the little
girl, and added accusingly:
"You're not my mommy. Mom
my! Mommy! Mommy!"
Well, I checked Susie with
the lost-and-found department
and when I got back the fat
lady had found her Mary, and
was happily shaking her until
her teeth rattled.
The circus began, quieting
the chaos into bedlam. In the
next two hours I tried gamely
to match Nina's appetite. Be
tween us we consumed two bot
tles of pop, two bags of pop
corn, two sticks of ice-cream,
a box of taffy candy, and two
scones of pink spun cotton
candy.
"Oh, this is fun this is weal
ly, weally fun," said Nina,
Salem 24 Years Ago
By BEN
March IS, 1929
Report are in circulation
that Salem high school will be
suspended from participation
in state interscholastic athletics
for a year as the result of a
"riot" staged at Willamette
university Friday night follow
ing the Salem-Chemawa dis
trict game. .
Widening of Church street
north of South Mill creek will
be a feature of the improve
ment and beautification to go
with construction of the South
Church street bridge. The
new concrete bridge will be
155 feet shorter than the pres
ent wooden structure.
,
Patrons of Elkins school in
Polk county have voted to
close the school and transport
pupils to Monmouth school
next year. Elkins school is an
earlier school in this locality,
being the first . rural school
operated for Oregon Normal
training purposes. -
Salem Woman's club, now
with nearly 300 members, has
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waving her cotton candy and
leaving half of it in my hair
and left ear.-.
She loved the merry clowns
and the animal acts, the trained
chimpanzees, the gentle ele
phants, the galloping camels,
the beautiful ladles on the
prancing white horse.
' But the high wire walkers
and the trapeze artists made
her nervous. Such acta thrill
adults because a mis-step or
poor timing may bring death
to the performers.
Nina only felt sorry for
them. She could hardly bear to
watch them. She gripped Fran
ces and me tightly by the hand
and her little palms were damp
with perspiration.
"I hope they don't tall," she
whispered.
She got her biggest laugh
from a capering brown horse
that came apart and disclosed
two men.
"Oh, I knew it was a trick,"
she said, bobbing her head
wisely.. "I know there was
somebody in it all the time.
They didn't fool me."
As we left, I was hiccuping
biliously, but Nina said she was
hungry. The man with the cot
ton candy came by, and Fran
ces said, "I think I'll buy. some
more, and rub it in your hair.
You have no idea how distin
guished you look with a touch
of pink at your temples."
At the door, Nina paused
and looked back wistfully at
the wonderland we were leav
ing. !
"Thank you for bringing me,
Hal and Francie," she said, po
litely. "It was weal nice
weally nice. Can we come
again tomorrow?"
MAXWELL
admitted 26 - new
since September.
members
T. M. Hicks has started con
struction of a modern, one
story garage building on the
west side of Commercial street
between Center and Marion
streets. Salem Automobile
company will occupy the new,
$20,000 structure.
Virginia Cleaver' Bacon, new
Oregon state librarian, has ar
rived here from Portland and
will immediately assume her
duties. ,
i .
ChemeKetans will make a
six mile hike to Calapooyia
burials' mounds near Tangent,
south of Albany, next Sunday.
They will leave Salem by bus
and travel to a point on the
Calapooyia river where the
hike starts.
a -
Medford won the state in
terscholastic basketball cham
pionship Saturday night from
Astoria with a score of 35 to
14.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Super Carriers Subject of
! Behind the Scenes Struggle
BY DREW
Washington The j o 1 n t
chiefs of staff are sitting most
of this week in a difficult has
sle over the $4,250,000,000
budget cut handed them out of
the blue by Secretary of De
fense Wilson. The most import
ant and immediate saving they
can accomplish will also be the
most controversial super air
plane carriers.
The question of carriers has
created storms in congress and
helped bring the resignation of
one defense secretary Louey
Johnson. - Nevertheless, it re
mains a fact that the defense
budget cannot be cut by trim-
mine down every item a little
bit: it must be cut by drastical
ly trimming the. least-needed
weapons of defense a lot
All the secret studies show
that the supercarrier is in this
category. Not only is it least
needed, but many military ex
perts consider it a liability. It
takes too many other vessels to
protect it. This was the report
of the British Joint chiefs of
staff following NATO naval
maneuves in the Baltic.
Though the report was held
up in Europe by the office of
Vice Adm. Arthur D. Davis, it
can be revealed that the British
claimed it would be "suicidal"
to throw naval aircraft against
Russia's superior land based
planes, and that carriers are
needed "mainly to protect ship
ping."
On top of this, the U. S. navy
has suppressed vitally import
ant facts about the poor show
ing of carrier planes in Korea.
By stamping all embarrassing
statistics "top secret," the navy
has been able to conceal the
facts 'not only from the public
but from congress, and perhaps
even from Secretary Wilson's
budget pruners.
THE AIR SCORE IN KOREA
However, this column, after
deleting details which might aid
the enemy, is now able to re
port the score on navy planes
vs. air force planes from the
Korean outbreak until Jan. 1,
1953
1. Slightly under 75 per cent
of our combat aircraft were
land-based. Yet these land-
Portland Boy Becomes
14th Traffic Victim
Portland VP) Four-year-old
Frank Jachetta, the city's 14th
traffic victim this year, died in
a hospital Tuesday.
, He was injured Monday
night when struck by a car as
he crossed an intersection with
his grandfather. The grand
father suffered a broken leg,
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based planes flew 83 per cent
. .t- ...... i r,lv missions.
OX U1W uw v- ,
m.. un..inina 9!i ner cent of
A II l cm ..' -
the planes based on carriers
flew only n per cem w.
missions. -i
Th tiaw's few land-based
planes did not measure up to
the air force, ui au ui tuiuu
i nn lanrt. the HIW
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operated 4 per cent. Yet it flew
only one-tentn oi i per "
the missions. The air force, with
less than 60 per cent of the
land-based planes, new o per
cent of the missions. The ma
rines, with 12 per cent, flew
15 per cent of the missions. The
remaining 18 per cent were
flown by our U. N. allies.
3. The navy has assigned
seven carriers to the Korean
war, yet the average number
of carriers actually on duty has
been less than four. The others
have been ferrying back and
fnrth nr tied nn at Pacific bases
for repairs. Even the four car
riers in the battle zone mum
interrupt flight operations
about half the time in order to
take on supplies and make snip
board repairs.
4. One-fourth of the navy's
I'.nmhit anrtlei" have been re
stricted to circling over the
xarrlen nrotectlve cover. In
other words, the navy's seven
carriers assigned to tne .orean
hpon in the battle
zone only half the time, have
kept their planes on aecic nau
of this time, then nave sem
nnlv three fourths of their
planes against the enemy. The
balance have been usea to pro
tect the carriers.
' 5. Of the 615 MIG fighters
shot down over Korea, the navy
has tinorori nnlv seven. This is
no reflection on navy pilots
ho are actually Detter trainee,
than air force pilots. The real
rMnn that the naw has in
ferior planes, and has ordered
its pilots to avoid tangling wiui
the MIGs.
6. When the build-up of Rus
sian nlanes behind the Yalu
became a genuine menace about
a year ago, tne three services
were asked what they would
do in esse of a communist air
attack on South Korea. The
navy replied that this "could
well result in redeployment
southward meaning in non
military language a navy
withdrawal, this wan t mean
rha naw'a rarrier task force
would run for cover out of
fear, but the blunt truth is that
they are vulnerable to an air
blitz. ' -' .,
COST 7 TIMES GREATER
TOhnf fnttlrM these fanta even
rnore shocking is that a carrier
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force costs seven times more
money, takes nine times more
manpower and uses up 18 times
more fuel than an equivalent
group oi air zorce Dombers.
This comparison, incidentally,
takes into account the air force
base with all it facilities and
defenses.
Not even the most economy,
minded experts, however, ar
arguing that carriers should be
abolished. Small carriers are
vitally needed to hunt down
and destroy enemy submarines.
- The navy has acknowledged
that its. primary mission la to
keep the sea, lanes open and
guard our coast against subma.
rines. Despite this, the navy
gave up eight other vessels, in.
eluding .three anti-submarine
and three anti-mine vessels, in
order to build the second super-carrier.
Not only are the
supercarriers too big to fight
submarines economically, but
they can't even squeeze through
the Panama or Suez canals.
This means they must take the
long way around South Amer
ica and Africa to get from ocean
to ocean. - ?
The navy has frankly adver
tised its supercarriers as float
ing air bases to launch offen
sive strikes against an enemy,
Inside fact, however, is that all
Russia's strategic targets have 0
been moved deep inland out
of range of the navy's longest
range bombers. The navy
couldn't get close enough to hit
the nearest important target,
Moscow, except by sending
bombers on one-way suicide
missions, with no thought of re
turning. Carrier planes, of tourse,
could blast the minor, coastal
targets, but Secretary of De
fense Wilson's experts question
whether this is worth the tre
mendous cost of the supercar
riers. In order to sell congress and
the public on the supercarriers,
the navy has spread the propa
ganda that its carriers are not
tied down to land bases. At the
same time, the navy has taken
care to classify as "top secret"
a list of 26 carrier bases in the
Mediterranean area alone.
These 26 bases no not include
the navy's regular fleet anchor
ages in the Mediterranean, nor .
a duplicate' string of NATO .
bases, nor the vast network of
navy bases in the Pacific.
Carrier planes actually land
and take off from the 26 bases,
which are scattered throughout
North Africa, Spain, Portugal,
Italy and Turkey. Huge sup
plies of aviation gas, ammuni
tion andv spare parts are also
kept on hand at the navy bases
for its carrier forces. If the
carriers are not tied down to
these bases, as the navy claims,:
Wilson's aides see no reason
why all 26 can't be abolished.
(Coprrllht, lMI)
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