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ONE GRID BENEFIT
lata and pedestrians cause to
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street system, ine motorist were noi i
churning through the snow to avoid sliding into oncoming
autoe, trucks and buses beating a path through the snow
for others to follow.
Pedestrians could easily get out of the way of oncoming
vehiclee and avoid being plastered with slush or struck
from behind. It was safer for both drivers and walkera,
for the grid system is an accident as well aa a congestion
voider. ' . '
u.... At a muotincr of tnnae nnnosinff the
grid system called attention to
ents nave overiooKea. xie warnea mow imw "
confuse the one-way grid with highway couplets on the
state highway located within city limits.
The city, Loucks said, has no jurisdiction over state
highways and in presenting their argument at a public
hearing before the city council on one-way traffic January
25, Loucks told the group they should speak on the grid
and not the entire one-way setup in Salem.
The one-way grid system has been universally accepted
and installed In nearly every city in the nation because
experience has proved that it provides large volumes of
traffic and reduces accident rates. It is tha only remedy
for congestion. The increased capacity has ranged from
30 to 60 per cent and accident reduction varied from 12 to
44 per cent.
Under the two-way system in effect before the grid sys
tem was established a couple of months ago, the conges
tion in the capital business district was becoming intoler
able and was a handicap to business. As State Engineer
R.H. Baldock has stated:
"At the present time. Salem is malting a drive to gain Industries
which, if successful, will augment Salem's population and wealth.
Increased population will bring increased traffic, and it appears neces
sary to adopt the most modern methods in order to minimi! traffic
congestion and. Incidentally, to preserve property values in the central
business district, as, otherwise, the fringe shopping district will grow
apace to the detriment of tha property values in the central business
district"
It is easy to understand why the fringe shopping dis
tricts oppose the grid system, for the greater congestion
in the central business district, the greater inconvenience
to shoppers, and more customers are created for the fringe
centers. But it is hard to understand why merchants or
property owners or citizens in the central business district
should be so short-sighted as to oppose the one-way grid
designed to benefit them. G. P.
SENATOR MORSE'S LETTER TO US
We publish today on this page a communication from
Senator Wavna Morse, takine issue with a recent Capital
Journal editorial on tha new
doHcv.
Like most of the senator's communications, it is lengthy
but it is published as a matter of fairness and in line with
tha policy of most newspapers
give newspaper critics more space man mey wouia omer
wise merit.
The senator's point is that the new contracts give "pri
vate) utilities" an advantage over future needs of the
aluminum industry and thus strangle Northwest develop
ment The senator ignores and hopes the public will overlook
the fact that the "private utilities" do not eat or sit on
this power but sell it to their customers who are the people
of the Northwest. So what the senator is really criticizing
is policy that gives the people a break in future power
needs instead of giving the aluminum industry all the ad
vantage. And the customers of those terrible "private
utilities" will themselves develop new industries for the
benefit of the region if their power needs are met.
We repeat: The "private utilities" rates are regulated
by public commissions. The public does get the benefit
of savings from their purchases of tax exempt government
power. So it is no crime against the people but a very
real benefit to the people when their future power needs
are given a tardy recognition in the new Bonneville con
tracts. And the senator is mistaken when he says "municipali
ties, co-ops and PUDs are effectively frozen out and the
preference clause in the law reduced to a hollow formal
ity." The contracts entered
private companies in no way
tofore given to public power
erence is assured despite the senator s itatcment to the
contrary.
NEW COMMUNIST WEAPON, DOPE
The Saturday Evening Post
blow at the free world, more
those struck with bullets, propaganda or even assassina
tion. The new weanon ia narcotics.
South Korea, Japan and
outside tha Iron curtain are geing cleverly flooded with
dope. Our armed forces in Korea are among the intended
targets. The article docs not say whether any of them
nave succumbed.
The stuff is being worked
professional done rintrs. This
but it is now being pushed with Increased vigor, the Post
ays, Dased on reports from various far eastern points.
Two things are accomplished, from the Communist view
point First a large amount of money ia secured for the
support of the Communist movement, particularly in
Japan. Second, and much more important, the people of
countries marked for conquest are demoralized and de
vitalized, making them easy prey, Japan used the same
tactics on the Chinese before and during World War II.
Here ia something for any dupes who think Moscow's
aims have changed because they are not being quite as
belligerently voiced to consider.
Witness to Be on Stand
WASHINGTON Iff - Reclame
Jon Bureau engineer who pre
pared designs and cod estimates
for th proposed Federal Hell
Canyon dam will be cross-examined
at a Power Commission hear
ing nut week.
Louis G. Puis. Denver, if lted
to be questioned Monday at the
hearing on Idaho Power Co.' ap
plications to build three dams in
the Hell Canyoa roach oi th
Soak River btwa
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appreciate the one-way grid
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the fact many of the oppon
20-year Bonneville contract
to lean over backwards and
into between BPA and the
alter the preference here
distributors. Continued pref
reports a new Communist
grim and terrifying than
other countries in East Asia
into the countries through
traffic has always existed
Oregon. He designed th proposed
federal project.
Pulls will be followed to th w it
net chair by Cecil Hoiaington,
Denver, and Ed Koetsner. Boia,
Idaho, who mad cost estimates
for th proposal. Th thro gav
direct testimony last weak.
Cross-examination of Lyna Craa
datl, U. S. gwiogieal eurvey en
gineer, ww completed Friday. He
testified oa a Snake River deple
tion survey h mad for th In
terior Department
OPEN FORUM
Morse Takes Issue With
Recent Journal Editorial
To the Editor:
Ob December 17, 1953, you ran
an editorial entitled "20-Year
Contracts Help the Public." The
editorial just reached my office.
Had you published this immod
erate editorial while I was home
in November, an earlier reply
would have been forthcoming.
If the editorial merely at
tacked me I would not dignify it
with an answer. Inasmuch as it
is grouly misleading, the record
must be corrected so that your
readers will have an opportunity
to Judge whether the public in
Oregon and the nation are Indeed
helped.
In December the Joint Congres
sional Committee on Defense Pro
duction released a report that
was printed a few weeks earlier.
The committee has been con
cerned for several years about the
inadequacy of domestic aluminum
production for detents use and
a defense stockpile. The Pacific
Northwest produces 40 percent of
the nation's aluminum. U. S. pro
duction of this and other impor
tant defense materials has been
insdequate. The committee points
out the direct relationship be
tween the availability of low-cost
power in our area and the oro-
duction ot these vital commodi
ties. Your editorial brushes off
the unfortunate impact of the 20
year McKay Bonneville contracts
upon this production.
The joint committee reports
that it and the Office of Defense
Mobilization were so aDDrehen-
?ive about the 20-year contracts
hat when it became known that
the agreements were under eon.
sideration, they made their fears
Known to McKay and I'rced him.
at least, to insist upon a defense
clause allowing diversion of the
private utility contract power to
defense purposes. This was last
May, at least four months before
the contracts were signed and
approved by McKay. McKay did
not insert such clauses: He told
the committee that if diversion
became necessary, new legisla
tion could be enacted to accom-
plish the change. This is a du
bious position and represents an
unnecesssry gamble with the de-
tense program,
The contracts, by limiting the
mounts of power available to In
dustry, definitely injures indus
trial expansion in the Pacific
Northwest. The 10.000 kw. limita
tion applies to private otiHtie;
only as to power received from
Bonneville under the contracts.
But, the limitation does not apply
to any new generating rapacity
th. utilities may acauire or delJ. "I. . V . "ulnor "
velop. " anici Mia. "nt been patent-
The contracts stipulste priori-1 f ' brin " ben'flU u modCTn
ties for new blocs of Bonneville !c 1 Ia,ioB ,0 r-' w11 ro
power which effectively Insure j ' " Th "w "ads to which
that over the next several years refer keens a rat movlnc at
at least the private utilities will
receive the lion's thsre of any
new public powr. The munici
palities, co-ops snd Pl'D's are ef
fectively troaen out snd th pref
erence clsuse in the law reduced
to a hollow formality.
You state: "Moreover, any fac
tor that benefits th private pow
er companies is evaluated by the
public utility commissioner in
rate-making and long-term con
tracts coum well bring at-ut. In
time, lower electrical rates to Ue
consumer, at least should prevent
an lm,y in .,h ...
sny increase In such rates"
You should be a war that lb
Bonneville act empowers the ad
ministrator to terminate power
to ny contracting party whose
rates art discriminatory or u
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Orfjon
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reasonable. But the contracts
state that if the administrator
finds the utility's rates are both
"discriminatory and unreason
able," he will negotiate with the
utility. If no adjustment is
reached, the administrator can
terminate service on four years'
notice, subject to court review.
Had a new deal administrator re
written the law in that manner,
your editorials would have been
printed on asbestos.
Your statement can hardly be
I squared with the utility commis
sions action on surcharges, or
consider the fsct that Copco no
sooner received the advanta.res
of participating in the Klamath
transmission line last year than
it applied for and received a
rate increase.
The secretary of interior and
the Republican administration
are not only discriminating in
favor of the private utilities and
against Oregon consumers, but
by hampering the full develop
ment of Hells Canyon and fail
ure to undertake new starts on
Columbia river power projects,
they are also denying to the Pa
cific Northwest and Oregon in
particular the kind of industrial
development which would create
new profits and jobs so sorely
needed. Indeed, there is the
threat that the scheduled com
pletion of The Dalles and Mc
Nary dims will be delayed.
Public power has been a ireat
boon to private enterprise in our
part of the country. We should
strengthen, expand and develop
Oregon's private enterprise by
insuring adequate supplies of
low-rate public power. In the
past this has been the sole ef
fective means of stimulating the
private utilities to provide serv
ice at decent rates.
I have advocated contracts of
reasonable duration for the pri
vate utilities and suggested that
such agreements be for no long
er than 10 yean But I oppose
20-year monopolistic grants which
provide them with a stranglehold
on rates and industrial develop
ment in our State.
WAYNE MORSE.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Civilization Supplies Prod
To Keep Us in the Rat Race
By REV. GEORGE H.SWIFT
aWf. 8L, riu-s
In one of our papers this week
is reference to a new laboratory
flasvif, iKa, k .:. a l . i a
a steady pace arouid a track by
following him with t device that
gives him an electric hock if he
Marts to slow down.
Isn't it th truth' Clviliialion
drives us around the race track
relentlessly. The man with a fam
ily to feed, clothe, and educate,
with interest to pay on household
equipment or a home, or debts ac
cumulated while getting a start,
caa appreciate the predicament of
th poor rat in th laboratory.
Th rat is fearful of the shock
that a moment's let -do n on his
In We? L k
u brm? The business
man, i aalasman, th workman,
th professional man. must keep
up a furious pace these days of
modern civilization, or kwe his
Job. hi business, or his profes
aioa to others who caa koto ahead
1 SLAVE EJ
Salem 45 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWEIL
January It, 1909
Early reports stated that 80 per
sons had been killed in a wreck
on the Denver Rio Grande rail
road near Dotsero, Colorado. The
Rio Grande, a narrow gauge line
with three feet between rails, was
promoted in the 1870s by Gen.
William Jackson Palmer, anxious
to tap a rich mining area around
Tnriuill Aa lafa aa 1011 lh lin,
was operating with a little parlor
. - - -
lounge running between Alamosa
and Durango. Ex-President Grant's
special was chuffed over Denver &
Rio Grande iron to reach Lead
ville early one morning in the mid
1870!. Rowdy night life had not
yet retired and the former presi
dent was greeted by a crowd of
hussies, papderers and madames.
Lieutenant Governor Haw Tabor.
a little tighter than customary.
escorted urant to toe hotel in his
fancy carriage).
Mrs. T. H. Hubbard bad pro
posed to build a first class, five
story hotel at the southwest corner
of State and High streets, site of
the Senate saloon, if the job could
be accomplished for under 150,000.
Capital Journal had offered to
receive contributions for an elec
tric cress, costing between $175,
and 8200 and to be erected on
the cupola of Sacred Heart Acad
emy. Salem Elks were advertising the
fraternity's show, "A Night in Bo
hemia," featuring many new song
hits.
L. U. Josse, 471 Court street, had
ranges on sale and offered a good,
six hole stove with a high closet
for 823.
A case of absolute nVstihitiAn
had come to the attention of Salem
authorities. A family with several
small children were entirely with
out food or clothing.
At Salem restaurant, 339 Court
street, meals could be had for lie,
board by the week for 82.7J.
L. F. Savage. 247 Commercial
street, had mandolins for sale that
possessed the warmth of sunny
ana oanjos wnn an the
laughter and mirth of the sunny
South. '
IpUmpsi en area
of the constant threat of an in
visible gadget that follows him
continuously with a knock-out
punch.
The poor rat doesn't have to:
think of "keeoina un with tha
Joneses." or educating and doth-;
a tamiiy, or meeting me
monthly deadline of bills, he has
Just himself to think about. But
we can. even at that, feel very
orry for the poor animal that
suffers only to bring more civili
sntion to an already over-burdened
humanity.
Mankind has an advantage over
th rat in that he has religion 'If
h will avail himself of it) to give
him courage, and strength, and
endurance, to keep up the rare
ahd of th creditors, th dead
Uns. and ether gadget which
have shocking potentialities. Civil
isation without religion is surety
only treadmill at relentless and
as terrifying as a machine that
pursue one until death. But re
ligion deaden th shocks M ov
ary day bring and lrui.es th
final summons a tolerable experience.
WASHINGTON MERRY
Gen. Bradley Approached to
Run for Senate in California
By DREW PEARSON
WASHINGTON Gen. Omar president, to give citizenship to
Bradley, former chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff and one of
the great military men of mod-
era times, has been approached
by California admirer to run lor
the V. S. senate, as a democrat
His reactions to the senate ap
proach are extremely interesting.
In the first place, Bradley is
worried about money which is
understandable, since be has
lived on a meagre military sal
ary all bis life, and if be goes
back oa the Federal payroll as a
senator he would forfeit bis re
tired army pension.
But more Important, Uncle
Omar is worried about the princi
ple of military men mixing in
politics. He regards this princi
ple as most important
The trend started by MacAr-
thur and Eisenhower is danger
ous and should not be continued,
be told California friends, for the
military profession and politics
don't mix.
A general, for Instance, must
be trained to insist upon military
needs entirely apart from any
political considerations. The po
litician, on the other hand, must
be willing to compromise. As
long aa military men don't have
political ambitions, Bradley ex
plained, they will perform their
jobs fearlessly and without com
promise. But once a political
career lurks in the mind of a
general, his military actions are
bound to be influenced by poli
tics. Therefore, concluded Bradley,
military men must stay out of
the political arena.
It so happens thst Uncle Omar
gave exactly the same advice to
his close friend, Ike Eisenhower,
back, in 1048, and this was on
reason Ike refused to run for
president at that time.
Bradley is intrigued at the idea
of being a senator, however feels
thst he might make some con
tribution. But the negative fac
tors outweigh tiie positive, at
least for the moment
Note 1 Adra. Thomas Hart, a
Republican military man, was ap
pointed to the U. S. senate aft
er the war and served with honor
and distinction. He filled the un
; Kpired term Connecticut's Sen.
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for re-election.
Note 2 Bradley was born In
Missouri as a Democrat, but has
never been identified with poli
tics one way or the other, though
he was sppointed by Truman to
be veterans administrator and
later to the joint chiefs of staff.
In each case he did an excellent
job.
Ike Modifies Red Stand
President Elsenhower had a
frank chat on loyalty probes with
a non-yessug Democratic con
gressman the other day in which
Ike conceded that some people
may have misunderstood his re
cent statement that disloyal
Americans be deprived of citizen
ship.
Ike told Congressman Harley
Staggers of West Virginia that
he referred (in his state of the
union message) to those who
committed treasonable acts to
undermine the government He
did not mean former communists
who had been duped into joining
the communist party, but later
renounced communism.
I do not have the power, as
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anyone, but 1 do have Ine ngnt to
restore citizenship to felon who
hss paid the penalty lor his
crime, Eisenhower sua. n
convicted felon can come back
and be fre man in a free
world, then certainly those who
espoused communism, but later
repudiated it should not be stig
matized by their fellow citizens
for the rest of their lives. That's
not the American way.
.... .
ira giaa to near you cirar -u ." -that
up. Mr. President" said the force .csdemy. snd the sdmiral
Wmi vir.ini. - n,moer.t. "he. I wrote a statement in fsvor ol
cause I was little confused my
self by what you said in the state
of the union message." Staggers
then resd to the president sn
editorial in the Wall Street Jour
nal, stating ia effect that the
newspaper hoped Eisenhower did
not mean what its editors thought
be implied.
Ike repeated his statement
quoted above, then added: "I also
did not mean to imply any
partisanship in what I said."
Listen, Mr. President," replied
Staggers, "this question is bigger
than the congress, the adminis
tration, or any one man. It's the
most imporant problem that the
nation faces today, and it win
take our best brains to solve
it It is far more important than
the job the Hoover commission
is doing to reorganize the govern
ment "If the current investigations
of disloyalty by various commit
tees of congress, competing lor
publicity, are allowed to continue,
in two or three years there will
be so much confusion in the pub-
lie mind that political oppor-
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Surplus of 131,000 Tons
Of Butter Worries Solons
By HAL
know what to do with 131,000
tons of butter?
Some of thte best brains in
government are trying to figure
out lend-greasc program to get
rid of it but no one has come
up with the right answer.
The present administration is
plagued with the problem of sur
pluses surplus debts, surplus
taxes, surplus unemployment,
surplus leftover Democratic of
ficeholders. It also has its shortages, of
course, .including a shortage of
republican senators. Bnt to a vis
iting taxpayer the most striking
shortage is the shortage of ideas
cn how to get rid of that 131,000
tons of surplus butter. Mean
while, under Uncle Ssm's farm
price support program the sup
ply is being added to at the rate
of 1,000 tons a day.
The butter costs the govern
ment about 68 cents a pound
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tunists may be trying to outlaw
the Democratic or the Republican
party as un-American.
-I think you rlghf repueo
the president adding that b w
nine to five serious attention
to a bill Staggers has introduced,
providing for a thorough probe
of subversive influences by a U-
man commission oi outstanding
citizens, selected by th pres
ident the vice president snd th
speaker of the bouse.
Navy Ceof esses
Adm. Jim Holloway, the navys
personnel ehief. is in the Pent,
gon doghouse for sending a writ,
ten statement to the house armed
services committee without dear,
ing it. Trouble was that h gv
away Annapolis secret.
The congressmen hsd request.
ujinwii'i views on an air
it But buried deep in the state
ment was a confession tnai in
navy had been using hish-pres.
sure tactics on Annapolis mid
shipmen to keep them from join,
ing its chief rivat-the sir force.
When Deputy Secretary of De
fense Keyes ssw this paragraph,
he ordered it struck out. H
was told, however, that it was
too late. The statement hid al
ready been sent to Cspitol Hill
Keyes hit the ceiling, ordered
that the paragraph be skipped
over when the statement was read
into the record. He hoped that
congress and newspapermen
would thereby overlook it Mean
while, Holloway was called on
the carpet bf his fellow admirals.
"What's wrong with the story?"
asked Holloway. "After all. it's
true. We work over the mid
shipmen to keep them from sign
ing up in the sir force. We do
not want them to join the sir
force. We teach them som
things we don't want them to
use against us later."
The truth, indicated nis teiiow
admirals, doesn't always pay.
BOYLE
but sells on the world msrket
for only 46 cents.
The government's problem is
that there seems to be no way
to get rid of the butter without
making somebody mad.
It might be given away to the
British, but for the lingering
resentment they they still hold
against us for the dried eggs w
forced them to accept after the
last war. You can't safely insult
a stout ally twice in one gen
eration. It might be sold to the Soviet
governmentt, which is reported
to be yearning for 100,000 tons.
If it would make for real friend
ship. But the statesmen here fig
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