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OIL TIDELANDS FILIBUSTER FAILS
Well over one million words have been spoken In the
senate filibuster on the controversial tidelands oil bill,
which is scheduled to come to a final vote Tuesday. The
mpflsnrfi seems sure OI uasautce as every aiiicuuiuciib
offered has been decisively defeated.
The senate Thursday voted 69 to 22 against a proposal
that the federal government retain control of. all mineral
riches In the ocean beds three miles or more offshore
and devote any revenue to reduction of the national debt,
The bill itself gives coastal states title to offshore lands
to their historical boundaries wnicn wouia De tnree miies
for all states except Western Jionaa ana Texas, ineir
seaward boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico would be recog
nized as three leagues, 10 miles, to conform to their
terms of admission to tne union.
The vast outpouring of words and the claims set forth
by opponents have tended to obscure the arguments. It
JIBS Deen cmuueu umi. mo
program" giving to three states, Louisiana, Texas and
California, OU ana gas resources jii me Buuiuergeu jojiua
worth between f 50 and ?auu mmon, wnicn oeiong to xne
nation. Doubt has been raised war congress can consti
tutionally turn the lands over to the states, though the
supreme court has decided mat congress nas tne jegai
power.
Those in favor of the measure assert that the bill
does not give the submerged lands to the coastal states
as a "gift." It "restores"' property they considered right
fully theirs from statehood until 1947, when the supreme
court held the federal government had "paramount
rights." This doctrine constitutes a threat to state control
of lands under inland waters, rivers and lakes and f illed
in ocean front lands. t
It is also claimed that the bill's passage will help halt
the trend toward over-centralization of the federal gov
ernment and a recognition of state rights ; that the states
are best qualified to manage the lands and their resources
within their historical boundaries.
COURTING
IS TOUGH ENOUGH
MAN WHO DIDN'T COME TO DINNER
Like him or not, and there are those who don't, the
junior senator has a natural affinity for the front pages,
as marked in a slightly different way as that of ham
for eggs, or pork for beans.
This regardless of whether he is making a filibuster
speech of record breaking length or merely isn't invited
out for dinner, an episode which so often happens to the
rest of us, with no after effects whatsoever. It is this
last incident that intrigues our interest today.
The Portland Chamber of Commerece gave a dinner
for some of the dignitaries in Washington the other night.
It was noted that the before mentioned junior senator
wasn't there and questions were asked. They weren't
ducked. "He was intentionally overlooked." Why? "Be
cause his presence might embarrass the other guests."
The host had something there. In fact it might do
more. It might deprive the guests of their juiciest morsel
of conversation. Asked about it, Morse retorted some
thing about being, himself, above "pettiness," and let
it go at that, which must be a record for him. Perhaps
he was questioned when running to catch a plane or a
train.
We suppose there will be the usual differences of opin
ion whenever Wayne Morse becomes the subject of con
troversy, but for our money the Portland Chamber of
Commerce, or anybody else, can invite or not invite who
ever it pleases to its dinners or anything else. We suspect
this F. E. P. C. business has been carried too far anyway,
and we're unalterably opposed to carrying it to the point
where dinner guest lists are dictated to the host.
Of course, it being still a free country, in this respect
at least, Morse has his rights, too, to try to spike the
first piece of Portland legislation that shows up in the
senate. This "calculated risk" the Portland Chamber must
have been prepared to take.
being WSfimwmm
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Does Many Things Well, Real Business Racing
IKE'S BUDGETARY TROUBLES
If you're one of those charts who's trvincr to hold his
breath till he gets an income tax cut you'd better read
the rest of this, which won't take long, and relax. For
you may have quite a wait.
President Eisenhower announced Thursday that al
though he plans to cut appropriations for the coming
fiscal year eight and a quarter billion dollars, to 64,400,
000,000, he cannot Bee a balanced bucket.
If you've been watching the front vnae in recent davs
you've doubtless noticed the new figures that are coming
out, and they are uniformly lower, sometimes drastically
so. And muscle as well as fat is being cut from the federal
spending program. Improvement projects, such as Bonne
ville, are being cut back. It isn't just a matter of turninir
chair warmers out to grass. Needed work will be lost or
postponed due to these determined efforts to restore order
to the nation s finances.
In spite of all this the president sees no budget balance
lor this year. We U still have a deficit, thouirh nrobab v
only a small one. A tax cut in the face of this condition?
Maybe. They're still talking about one, but it isn't sound
and shouldn't be made till it can be made within a bal
anced budget. We've already had deficit financing too
wng.
New York VP) Most men
spend their lives trying to
learn to do one thing well.
Sherman Frank "Big Red"
Crise, who broke his pocket-
book In the Bronx on his
own account and later busted
his back in Burma for Uncle
Sam, doesn't lit in any simple
pigeonhole. It is hard to
figure something this gusty,
six-footed, 250-pounder hasn't
tried and done well.
"I guess racing has been my
real business," he said. "The
things I love are speed, money
and machinery.
"I like playing with an
engin more than anything
else in the world, but you can't
make money getting your fin.
gers dirty, so I turned to pro
moting. '
"Big Red" is one of the
first two men to pioneer mid
get car racing in America and
at 47 is one of the key figures
in the nation's 80 million dol
lar a year auto racing in
dustry. "Of course, It's fast and
dangerous," he said, grinning.
But I have promoted more
than 800 races since the war
and there hasn't been a driver
.killed in one yet."
"Big Red" has always en
joyed living at full throttle.
He trained as a Navy filer
at Pensacola, studied banking,
engineering and economics.
He went Into Wall Street,
made a fast buck, and got
out before the 1929 boom fell
apart.
Then be became a speed
boat, hydroplane, and airplane
racer and set a few records.
"In 1933 I started promot
ing midget car racing in the
Bronx," he recalled ruefully,'
"and in two years I dropped
8168,000."
But "Big Red" always teem
ed to know where the green
backs grow. By 1942, when
he voluteered for war service,
he was bossing 14 racing
tracks.
"They shut down the tracks
in seven days," he said. "The
By HAL BOYLE
Navy turned me down as a
flier, so I walked across the
street and signed up with the
Army Air Corps."
As a photographic pilot,
Crise flew in every war
theater from Kiska to Burma,
helped map Brazilian jungles,
and air-scouted beaches for
the African and Sicilian in
vasions. While flying the
Hump in 1945 he ran out of
gas, parachuted and broke
three vertebra. It took 12 days
for the rescue party to get
him back to his base.
"1 walked the lirst nine
days," he said, "but I couldn't
stay on my feet the last three.
During , a 17-week recovery
period in a hospital near
Miami, while awaiting dis-
Dean to Head Pacific
U. Next Few Months
Forest Grove VP) The act
ing head of Pacific university
for the next few months will
be Edwin T. Ingles, education
professor and former vice pre
sident. He was named acting dean
Thursday, a new position on
this campus.
He will hold that position
until a successor Is named to
Dr. Walter Gleribach, who
Wednesday submitted his resig
nation as president, effective
Aug. 31.
State Commission to
Select Licensees
Portland VP) The City Coun
cil hire Is going to leave it up
to the State Liquor Commis
sion where to put the 140 to ISO
licenses for liquor by the drink
in Portland.
The council made that clear
Thursday by approving anoth
er 62 applicants. That pushed
the total npproved to 136 with
many more still to go. The state
agency eventually will have to
cut the list to 140 or ISO.
Pumper Won't Fit, So
They'll Build Station
Dunkirk, N. Y. U.K Con
struction was expected to get
underway soon on a new fire
station which had been under
consideration for some time.
The Fire Department Just
purchased a new pumper and
it won't fit in tht old firthouie.
Commerce Budget Cut
Of 22 Pet. Proposed
Washington VP) An aggre
gate cut of 22 per cent in ap
propriations for the State,
Commerce and Justice Depart
ments was recommended to the
House yesterday by its appro
priations committee.
The biggest cut was for the
State Department, for which
the committee recommended
$102,744,787. That Is $48,403,
803 less than former President
Truman asked.
Would Give Agencies
Their Cash Quarterly
Washington VP) Rep. Weich-
el (R.-Ohio) proposes that
money appropriated by Con
gress be given to government
agencies on a quarterly basis.
He told the House yesterday
his plan would halt much of
the abuses, misspending and
waste of the taxpayers' mon
ey."
IKE'S NIECE CROWNED
Winchester, Va. (U.B Miss
Kathryn Eisenhower, a 19-
year-old niece of President
Elsenhower, was crowned
Queen Shenandoah yesterday
at this area's annual Apple
Blossom Festival.
charge, he had a yacht basin
built.
Today "Big Red" owns the
yacht basin, a spark plug
business, a 65-foot yacht, auto
racing tracks at Al'entown,
Pa., and Washington, D. C,
and other oddments. He has
logged more than 15,000 miles
in the air, but "no longer will
take a plane up, and prefers
to drive his $10,000 Jaguar
sports car.
"I can fly any airplane in
the world except jets," he
said. "But I stopped flying
more than a year ago. Just
scared stiff. Quit cold. Lost
too many friends over the 26
years I flew.
"Now I'm an old man who
likes to live quietly in the
country and take It easy In a
145-mile-an-hour sports car.
And I'm getting so cautious
I've only had It up to 120."
"Big Red" has two pro
motional dreams left. Next
June he plans to pit 25 Ameri
can stock cars against 25
foreign cars in a 200-mile
race in a closed mile dirt
track at the Langhorne Speed
way near Philadeipna.
I think the foreign sports
car boys are turning into stuf
fed shirts," he said. "I'd like
to see what they can do
against Detroit stock models
in a real race."
The other dream of "Big
Red" is to build a non-profit
"museum of speed" at Day.
tona Beach, in which record
breaking vehicles of all kinds
can be permanently exhibited.
For this purpose he bought the
late Sir Malsolm Campbells
famous five-ton "Bluebird'
racer.
"I also want to put In the
museum an engine that will
run forever," he said. " It
never has been done but it
can be."
"Big Red" says the museum
will be his last promotion, and
hopes it will stand as a monu
ment to the love of his furious
life speeding men and
machinery.
Salem 20 Y 'ears Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
Mar I, 1933
Pleasant View, Summit Hill
and Cloverdale school districts
south of Salem have voted to
consolidate. The new district
will become No. 144,
Appointment of Alonzo L,
Stlner as head football coach
for Oregon State college for
1934 has been confirmed at
meeting of the state board of
higher education In Fortiana.
Tax levies in Salem for 1933
have been reduced from 47.2
to 41.8, a reduction of 5.5 mills
Less than a half Inch of rain
fell over Salem during April
and that establishes a record
dryness for the month since
the weather bureau started ob
serving here 41 years ago.
A rattle snake, approxl
mately 30 inches in length
and with five rattlers and a
button, was killed on a rocky
ledge near Mehama the other
day by E. R. Henningsen of
Jefferson.
With several millions of dol
lars of additional federal emer
gency relief money' practical
ly assured prospects are bright
er for Oregon highway con
struction at a pace not anticipated.
Closing time at the federal
treasury today is zero hour
for the return of hoarded gold.
Those who fall to heed the or
der may be punished by a
$10,000 fine or 10 years in
prison. Secretary Woodln says
persistent hoarders will be
prosecuted.
State board of control meet
ing Wednesday will pass upon
salaries to determine that they
have been reduced five to 30
percent based upon salary
scales for December 81, 1930.
A. A. Geer of Salem was
In Silverton on Saturday for
the purpose of gathering his
torical material on the Indian
fight along the Abiqua in the
vicinity of Indian Bluff. He
Interested in establishing a
public park there and erecting
monument to commemorate
the heroes of this pioneer Bat
tle of the Abiqua. (This skirm
ish occurred March 5, 6, 1848.
In the two-day affray the
Klamaths lost 10 braves and
had one wounded. One.white,
James Stanley, was struck in
the breast with an arrow and
received thereby a painful
wound. He was the only cas
ualty among the settlers. Ban
croft, the historian who wrote
less than 40 years after the
event, spoke of the encounter
as a disgraceful rear guard ac
tion in which a squaw was
wounded and the real maraud
ers either escaped or were nev
er present.
REALLY TOLD HIS STORY
San Francisco (U.R) A wit
ness In federal court yesterday
described so graphically the
back injuries for which John
Stephens is suing the Southern
Pacific Railroad for $100,000
that a woman juror fainted.
Big Concerns Trying to Take
Gov't's Bomb Fuse Program
BY DREW PEARSON
w..t.t-.'n.wnd all the i fuses. When others failed,
furor over tha dismissal of Dr,
Allen V. Astln as head of the
bureau of standards are some
interesting maneuvers hltnerio
unknown to the puDiic,
These ouiet tactics center
around the bureau's vital de
velopment work on fuses for
bombs, shells and guided mis
sies. For years several large
corporations have been anxious
to take over the bureau's luse
program. Naturally, If a private
company gets in on the ground
floor In designing fuses, it
would be in the best position to
get subsequent multimillion'
dollar fuse-production con'
tracts.
As far back as March 2, lit
tle more than a month after
Sinclair Weeks was sworn in
as secretary of commerce and
as boss of the bureau of stand
a r d s, Moorehead Patterson,
president of the American Ma
chine and Foundry Co., paid a
visit to the bureau of standards,
As head of the huge A.M.&F.
Co.. and a good friend of Sec
retary Weeks, Mr. Patterson
was given a warm reception.
"I understand," said Patter
son, "that this whole research
and development program on
fuses will soon be taken away
from the bureau. I want you
all to know my company will
be happy to pick up the pieces,
In addition," he told the startl
ed scientists, "I'm. ready to
move the whole operation, in
eluding personnel, to my Bos
ton plant."
This was well before Sinclair
Weeks fired Dr. Astln
It was also the first inkling
the scientists had that the na
tion's vital fuse program was
to be put on the auction block.
In fact, they were skeptical
about Patterson s prediction
and went ahead with their
work. Patterson, however, was
so sure of his information that,
before leaving Washington, he
made attractive financial offers
to several key scientists.
Pens and Fuses
The following week, Fred K,
Powell, Jr., vice president of
American Machine and Foun
dry, arrived in Washington,
Powell went so far as to tell
Pentagon and commerce de
partment officials that his com
pany was ready to absorb the
whole fuse program "on a
moment's notice."
Then, on March 25, Secretary
Weeks wrote a confidential let
ter to defense boss Charlie Wil
son urging the Pentagon to re
move the fuse program from
Weeks' own bureau of stand
ards. Weeks' letter to Wilson
was disguised in official double
talk, but its meaning was clear.
He wrote:
"I bring this (fuse program)
to your attention in case you
wish to delegate someone to
check these expenditures and,
perhaps, suggest an examina
tion and even a re-valuation of
the research program."
At first this got no favorable
response from the defense de
partment. Armed services
knew the amazing job the bu
reau of standards had done on
bu-
reau scientists had developed
tne proximity iuse a u r I n g
World War II, the fuse which
explodes when It approaches its
target, and which causes the
amazing guided mlssle to steer
a course toward Its target. .
In fact, army-navy experts
wrote a confidential memo to
Secretary of Defense Wilson
warning against danger to tha
guided-missle program if Dj,
Astin was not reinstated.
Later, however, Secretary 0f
Commerce Weeks got his way
His colleague, Secretary of De
fense Wilson, has now issued
instructions to curtail further
military research funds for the
bureau of standards.
Note: Assistant Secretary nt
Commerce Shaeffer, the foun
tain pen manufacturer, told
friends that one of the first
things he would do in Washing.
ion was snane up ine Dureau of
standards. He claimed thev hH
been unfair in testing one of hit
pens.
Headlines and Footnotes
Comptroller General Lindu.
Wsrren has ordered his ac.
counting sleuths to audit the
huge "mail payments" the goV.
ernment is ladling out to ths
airlines. It was a similar invi.
tigation that led to reform of
the maritime commission . ,
It's a neat trick if he can do 'it
but Congressman Miller of Ne.
braska has promised to make
daylight saving time retro
active for the nation's capital.
In other words, D. C. residents
can turn their clocks ahead
nour Deginning last Sunday.
This proposal was made in all
seriousness Dy Miller, after
Congressman Bender of Ohio
urged jiuick action on the
light saving bill . . . "I sup
pose we might try to make it
retroactive," offered Miller . . .
The Chinese Communists are
quietly withdrawing a full div
ision from the Korean front
Captured prisoners say it Is on
its way back to China. This may
be evidence that the latest Chi
nese truce bid is genuine.
Senator Chavez of New
Mexico is flat on his back tt
the Bethseda Naval hospital.
Friends say he was driven
there by worry over Pat Hur
ley's unrelenting campaign
against him in New Mexico . . .
Karl Schlotterbeck is chief
counsel of the. house ways and
means subcomlmttee now try
ing to sabotage social security.
In his spare, time, he also
serves as a special consultant
to the new secretary of wel
fare, Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby,
who is supposed to look out
for social security . . . Com
munists are trying to plant the
rumor that the three atomic
explosions in Russia were mis
fiers and that Russia still
doesn't have the atomic bomb.
However, our top atomic sci
entists have been able to de
termine from the evidence that
the Russian explosions wen
too efficient to have been mis
fires . . . The Russians don't
miss a public meeting where
anything of military signifl-1
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