THE-CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Friday, April 24, 195S
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NEWCOMER WATCHES THE LEGISLATURE
The 1958 Oregon legislature has been appraised by
experts, but here Is a brief appraisal from one who has
paid taxes it levied for many years, but who never before
saw It in action, due to living in communities far from the
capital ' r
During the past two weeks of the season this writer
was a frequent visitor, though usually for fairly short
intervals. Unfamiliar with legislative procedure, though
familiar enough with, many of the results of, legislative
' enactments, he was a more than usually interested spec
tator.
Impressions were hiriiJy favorable. The legislature
appears brisk and businesslike, at least in the home
stretch. It may have dallied and stalled in the earlier
weeks.
The procedure is good. Important questions are freely
debated, all sides are heard, no one is suppressed, but the
debate is brief and to the point. Jo niiDustering, no
grandstanding prima donnas.
There is a definite right-left cleavage which expresses
itself in the debate on every important question. This is
Ianrely sreomraphical. rural conservatism versus urban
liberalism. Eastern Oregon appeared to be the most con
servative section. Legislators from there represent farm
ing communities for the most part. And farm thinking-
is conservative at this time.
Minor questions are expedited, but the bills are explain
ed and a senator or representative can know what he Is
voting upon. Our impression was and is that the legisla
ture does an outstanding job in a short time with literally
hundreds of issues, many of which are tedious and pes
tiferous. , Our impression Is that by and large the people were
well served by this 1963 legislature and that if every citi
zen could have spent a few hours or days in the often
empty spectators' galleries he would feel that he is getting
good representation, that the "Oregon system" is work
ing well.
And by no means least, these legislators left us with a
balanced budget, assuming that revenues equal estimates.
LOOK! HE'S BOWING!
IWONDCR1
WHAT
MAKES
HlrA 50
POLITE I
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"IfcNtufhtS:
OPEN FORUM
Objections to Editorial
On the 'Coffee Break'
MacARTHUR'S PLAN. TO END THE WAR
Neither President Eisenhower, Secretary of State
Dulles nor the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose function is to
carry out, not originate policies, have proposed a program
for ending the Korean war. The reason of course, is the
hope of realizing peace through resumption of truce nego
tiations by which a satisfactory peace may be attained.
General Douglas MacArthur, former U.N. supreme com
mander in the Far East, has in a 1500-word letter to Sena
tor Harry F. Byrd (D Va.), who had queried him on
Korean ammunition shortages, . proposed a definite pro-
gram which Byrd has made public. ...
MacArthur declares that a threat to bomb Red China
might force Russia to "settle the Korean war and all
pending issues on equitable terms. A warning of action
of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to
bring the Korean struggle to an end without further
bloodshed."
The proposals obviously represented the "clear and
, definite solution" which MacArthur alluded to in his fam
ous December 5 speech in New York and later discussed
privately with President Eisenhower and Secretary of
State Dulles. MacArthur said:
"We itlll poueu the potential to de-troy Bed China's flimsy
industrial base and sever her tenuous supply llnei from the
Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern
war and sustain large military forces In the field. ' Thia in
turn would greatly weaken the communist hold upon Asia,"
MacArthur said Russia is not "blind to the dangers"
confronting it in the Far East so that a threat of a "Red
China debacle . . , might well settle the Korean war and
all other pending global issues on equitable terms."
If the present effort for peace negotiations fizzle out,
as seems likely, the adoption of some such program as
MacArthur proposes, would be logical, unless the United
Nations appeasement policies vetoed it and then the
United States might go it alone. The time is nearing
when some such solution is imperative to end the present
policy of futility,
PLAY BALL!
Whether the Senators will win the W.I.L. pennant is of
course unknown on this opening day of the 1P53 season,
and that's a blessing, for the other seven clubs and their
supporters might lose interest if they knew. Assuming
of course that we are destined to romp in ahead of the
pack.
But this we do know. We have a very good team, based
upon Its success in the preseason schedule, climaxed by
that spectacular 15-5 victory over the Sacramento Sena
tors of the Pacific Coast league. And the other Senators
didn't start clowning until they'd been beaten, fair and
square, by our Senators.
We'll have good baseball this year, in a league made
larger and more interesting by inclusion of Calgary and
Edmonton from lusty, vigorous Alberta, Canada's boom-
land. Win or lose, let's back the Senators to the finish
and make professional baseball an outstanding success
here.
OPEN FORUM
Barbers Oppose First
Aide Car Personnel Cut
To the Editor: The last meet
ing of the Barbers' Union
Local 828 of Salem went on
record opposing any change in
the present personnel of the
Salem first-aid car,
Having observed the Salem
first-eld car on numerous oc
casions I have always admired
the efficient way the trained
personnel cared for a sick or
injured person.
The first-aid car Is a valu
able asset to the city of Sa
lem and vicinity with two
trained men who are equipped
to care lor any emergericy
that may arise. To eliminate
one trained man where two
are necessary would be a loss
to the citizens of this commu
nity. We respectfully submit that
the continued effective opera
tion of thef lrst-ald car should
not be endangered by elimin
ation of necessary personnel,
CLIFFORD E. HALD,
Sec.-Treas., Barbers'
Union, Local 639.
PKRON JAILS I5J
Buenos Aires (U.n Thirty-
wuee more Argentine merch
ants were arrested yesterday,
raising to 853 the number of
alleged black marketeers jailed
since President Juan D, Teron
started his crackdown on prof
iteering two weeks ago.
To the Editor: Your editor
ial "Coffee Break Morale" of
April 10 contains insinuations
that bespeak Jack or courage
to publish direct charges based
on facta against state employes.
I have been an employer
and employe in private busi
ness aa well as being a state
employe and can see no dllfe
ence In the diligence or the
"clock watching" of either
class. I have never worked
with, or had a more consoles
tlous group work for me, than
are my associates in the de
partment in which I work.
Considering the overtime that
many state employes vouuv
tarily work, without pay or
"time-off," makes the holiday
vacations you ' mention puny
Indeed.
Perhaps the efficiency of the
state had been maintained be
fore the last few years per
haps it was also maintained in
the horse and buggy days,
Does the Capital Journal still
set type by hand?
In my work it happens that
I have contact with' most of
the larger Industrial plants of
the state. I notice that invar
lably they observe "coffee
break" regularly .twice a day.
Why do Salem businessmen,
like your newspaper, belittle
the state employe? , Other cit-
ties that have state payrolls
take pride in them and appre
elate them even a city as
large as Portland. Their ap
preciation of state payrolls is
shown by the number of
branches of Portland firms be
ing established here. Should
a Portland newspaper start an
evening paper branch here,
they would find a fertile field
among state employes to get
subscriptions.
Maybe Portland citizens
are right in thinking that more
state institutions should be
located in Portland. State
employe's salaries are paid
from taxes collected from all
over the state and a great
share of them are tunneled
Into Salem cash registers.
The public seem to forget
that state employes, too. are
taxpayers, both local and
state taxes. Would not the
city and the city schools feel
the lack of financial support
It this payroll were not here?
We strongly resent belne set
apart from other citizens as
being lax in our moral obliga
tion to the taxpayers. It seems
loyalty to the state on the part
of your newspaper does not
Include loyalty to state em
ployes. Being a comparative new
comer as an editor in this com
munity the prestige of your
paper as a public service insti
tution could be greatlv en
hanced by an explanatory retraction.
A. R. von LEHE,
1015 S. ISth St.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
'Girl of 82 Who Can Still
Say No Hits Old New York
By HAL BOYLE
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ran
Phone
4-1451
195 .Commercial
New York WV-There is an
82-year-old girl in town from
out of town who still can say
"no." .
Mrs. R. W. Hitchcock Is the
queen bee of the annual ren
dezvous of American newspa
per publishers.
. "Mary Ann, I love you,"
says many a visiting Romeo,
forgetting the problem of ris
ing pulp paper costs as he bends
to kiss her.
And Mary Ann is a girl who
doesn't see why she should
have to say no to anybody to
day after more than 60 years
of living with the same news
paperman. The guy she has spent her life
with is a sprightly 85-year-old
former school teacher who puts
out newspapers in both Minne
sota and South Dakota. And
since they are both republicans
nothing refreshed them so much
as the last election.
Mary- Ann, however, isn't
even at 82 the kind of a girl
you want to mis-spend an eve
ning with talking about poll
tics. She is feminine and at
tractive, and all the prosperity
worried elderly publisher wid
owers buzz around her as if she
were still a free girl.
This tickles her. She has a
belly-laugh chuckle at the at
tentions of men, and It is fun
to romance her.
"I taugh school In a sodhouse
in Kansas," she said, "and peo
ple lived in sodhouses then.
But my mother refused to do I
it. She told the man who want
ed' to marry her that she
wouldn't marry1 him until he
built a real house for her."
Well, the poor guy finally
rustled up the timber somehow
in a period when Kansas wasn't
noted for Its lumber.
"Now Mary Ann," I said,
"does not that only prove you
come from proud flesh?"
"No," she aald, "you just have
to stand. fox; something, that's
all."
Mary Ann came to town In
a wheel chair. Been discom
moded for years. Fell and broke
a bone. Bones are a real nuis
ance to a young girl In her
eighties. ,
"Now, Mary Ann," I said,
"tell me the truth. A lady in
her eighties can certainly af
ford to. Were you ever a bad
girl?" ; . -"No,"
she said spiritedly. "I
wasn't. 1 know that, and Mr.
Hitchcock does, too. I will say,
however, that after being mar
ried for 60 years to the same
man a woman still has some
thing to look forward to."
I asked why Mary Ann had
bothered to make the effort at
82 to come all the way from
South Dakota to New York, and
she said, wryly wrinkling her
dimple: .
"I lust wanted to know about
life ... I hear there Is so much
of It here."
A game girl on a game lea.
"Mary Ann, I love you," born
a generation behind you but
with you.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Results of Security Probe Published in 1952
Washington The other day
the senate internal security
committee questioned Gregory
SUvermaster, former treasury
official, regarding allegations
that he had filmed secret doc
uments for Russia in the base.
ment of his Silver Spring home
during the war.
The date of this senate cross-
examination was April 16,
1953.
On Sept 7. 1047, however.
almost seven years before, this
columnist revealed the first hi
side story about tne buver
Spring Soviet spy ring and gave
considerably more facts than
the senators aid last week, The
column read:
"Here Is bow the Soviet spy
ring operated almost under the
nose of the White House. One
treasury official, formerly with
the agriculture department, had
photo' laboratory in Silver
Springs. Md., on the outskirts
of Washington. He worked In
the treasury's procurement div
ision, which deals with the pur
chase of supplies. Two war de
partment officials one a ma
or in the air corps who were
attached to the treasury to ad
vise on tne purenase oi avia-
tlon materiel, took blueprints
and confidential army plans out
of .the treasury and war de
partments to a friend's labor-
story, where they were photo
graphed.
"Then the photographs were
turned over to a Soviet agent
who carried them to New York
and gave them to the head of
Russia s top secret police, the
NKVD This took place while
the war was in progress. ,
'Although 'the officials In
volved held minor positions.
two of them handled Important
aviation secrets and one was an
expert in pushing B-29 pro
duction. .
"Army officers, when Ques
tioned, admitted privately that
they had known for some time
that the Russians had been able
to build B-29s. In fact, U. S.
intelligence reports indicate
that several B-29s were finlsh-
f Y DREW PEARSON
ed by the Russians some time
ago." i '
Sitellila DlDlomatle Spies
The above column was pub
lished as a result of independ
ent, personal Journalistic In
vestigation without the protec
tion of senatorial privilege. It
incurred the usual risk of libel,
inherent In any difficult piece
of journalistic digging. It would
seem therefore that the senate
internal security committee,
with all its power to subpoena
witnesses and its protection
from libel suits, could una
something more up-to-date to
Investigate than facts puousn
ed seven years ago.
For Instance, the committee
could well investigate how the
Kremlin is using satellite Iega
tions embassies lor propaganda
and espionage work among
foreign-born Americans.
Most of this is done through
certain Communist legations
right bere in the nation's cap
ital and under the nose of the
senate internal security com
mitteeamong them the Hun
garian, Czech, Rumanian ana
others. ; r , '
The senate committee did
some excellent work regarding
this three or four years ago,
but latest development is the
manner in which the Hungar
ian Communist legation in
Washington collects money
from Hungarian-Americans to
help poorly fed relatives in
Hungary, then uses the money
for propaganda and espionage
work in the Unitea States.
The system works through
the United States Relief Parcel
Service, which, judging from its
high-sounding name, appears
to be run by the U. S. govern
ment. Actually, however, it's
operated under the supervision
of the Hungarian Communist
government in the following
manner:
You deposit $10.50 or almost
any amount with USPRS in the
United States, and the Hungar
ian government in turn deliv
ers the food to your friend or
relative in Hungary. The goods
Salem 41 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
April 24, 1912
Southern Pacific railroad
and Oregon Agricultural col
lege poultry demonstration car
was switched to its Trade
street siding this morning
where spectators were on hand
to view the exhibits. Professor
Dryden said the objective
of the College poultry depart
ment Is "a 200 egg hen and a
two ounce egg."
, ,.. , . .. .. -,-Salem
school board has re
ceived a communication from
the local ministerial association
objecting to profane and sac
rilegious phrases in a late issue
of the Salem high school Clar
ion. In this offending num
ber the Clarion carried a story
containing the words "by God"
number of times. The min
isterial association Is chagrined
because the school board re
fuses to act upon their complaint.
Capital Journal Is concerned
about the purchase of a team,
said to be defective, by the fire
department. The price paid was
$100 more than a team in
sound condition would cost.
Learned opinions by engi
neers, builders and architects
continue to be expressed to ac
count for failure of trusses sus
taining the roof of the new
public, library, now under construction.
Portland, Eugene & Eastern
railroad is presumed to hold
the option for purchase on the
Ryan quarter block at the cor
ner of Commercial and Center
street." .
Elmo S. White gave a talk
and showed the picture "Ore
gon Prison" last evening to the
largest house that ever packed
Wexford theater.
Willamette university Is en
gaged in a "whirlwind" cam
paign to raise $10,000 In order
to receive a substantial benefit
offered by James J. Hill and
conditioned upon that accom
plishment, . While Monmouth Normal
school board was in session at
the capltol yesterday to con
sider final plans for construc
tion of a dormitory building
on the campus, Oregon su
preme court nearby .handed
down a decision dashing all
hope of any such building for
some time to come.
are obtained from Hungariaa
government owned cooperat
ives. But the money you deposit
remains in the USA to finance
Communist expenses here. In
addition, the Hungarian gov.
eminent makes a profit on the
transaction in Hungary.
. Thus $10.50 will buy a food
package bearing the code name
'PlMiure ." which nn1,-...
only 1.1 lb. a coa, 4.4 lb. sugar,
2 tins of sari lnes, and 2.2. lb.
of cookies. Yet this meager
package cost $10.50. No won
der Hungary makes money.
Or you can send your friend
In Hungary a "Blue Wonder"
bicycle for $30, men's half
shoes for $16; men's hand
stitched half shoes for $30; a
five-tube shortwave radio for
$80; or a "contax" camera for
$360.
Unfortunately the level of In.
come is so low among many
persecuted Hungarians that
they could hardly stay alive
without these gift packages
from friends in the United,
States.
On the other hand, it re
mains a fact that the Hungarian
government uses this as a lush
source of Income to finance its w
operations in in is country. "
Communist Propaganda
What is done with the money '
partially was indicated at the
last anniversary of Kossuth
Day, the Hungarian indepen
dence day, when Carl MarzanL
former state department offl- ,
cial who went to jail for lying
about his Communist affilia
tion, harangued a group at the
Barbizon Plaza hotel in New
York. After the meeting, prop-
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Ian minister Emil Weil.
The Hungarian government
auo operates a dock mercnaq.
disine let-un in the TlniteV)
States, which handles several
thousand Hungarian books a
year. The revenue from all
these sales Is estimated at about
$300,000 a month.
The secret operations of the
Hungarian legation - are im
portant because approximately
the same system applies to
other satellite diplomatic es
tablishments the Czechs, Bui
garians, Rumanians, etc. .
Originally the job of organ
izing Hungarian - Americans
was entrusted to Tonjanos Flor
lan. secretary of the Hungarian
legation. He was so brash ni
his operations however that the
state department used the trial
of Cardinal Mindszenty as an
excuse to have him recalled. .
Imre Horvath, a Moscow-
trained agent of the Hungarian
secret police, followed. But
despite this background, he was
too inept to suit Moscow. Un
der him the circulation of the
Hungarian Communist news-'
paper in the USA, Magyar
Govo, dropped from 40,000 to
about 3,000.
So. Dr. Emil Weil, high up in
Communist -party circles, was
appointed to take bis place. His
special instructions were: 1, to
organize the Moscow peace
movement; 2, take advantage
of religious differences to stir
up as much discord as possible
among Hungarian-Americans;
and 3, organize Hungarian
Americans into a "1945 bloc."
This Is the date when Hungary
first began its drift toward
fTnm m i in om
This Is just part of the under,
ground activities operated by
satellite diplomats which the
senate Internal security com.
mittee could well investigate.
(CoprrlKlit. 1.53)
Condensed Statement of Condition
Willamette Valley .Bank
(Including University Branch)
Salem, Oregon
as of April 20, 1953
ASSETS
Loans and Discounts 2,045,080.56
U. S. Government Securities
State and Municipal Securities
Cash, Cash Items and Balances with Other Banks.
Other Assets , . .
Total Assets
1,648,085.48
776,691.55
. 500,392.47
85,911.43
.$5,056,161.49
LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL
i
Deposits :. ... 4,742,81 3.09
Other Liabilities 138,555.33
Total Liabilities 4,881,368.42
Capital Accounts 174,793.07
r,
Total Liabilities and Capital
.$5,056,161.49
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