Page 8 THK T4P1TAL JOT'RXAL. Salem. Oreqron Monday, February 8, 1954 A BIT OF THE FAR EAST IN THE WEST ..i ma tv4' w iFrench Lose ! Demos Have an Issue in Key Village Business Slump-Unless HANOI, Indochina W The French conceded Monday the lost of AUnpeu, a key Laotian village in central Indochina, but claimed a successful fight far to the north in the lied River dcltt, with 111 of the Vietminh enemy killed and 72 captured. A communique said the French withdrew from Attopcu three days ago, and a battalion of the Communist-led Vietminh occupied the town. It is in Laos, 28C miles north of Saigon. The town ha: long been a garri son for French and Laotian troops because it is at an important crossroads 70 miles east of Paksc, a big French base on the Mekong Ilivei In the fighting in the north, French mobile groups, spearhead ed by tanks, drove against a Viet minh regiment entrenched in three villages. The enemy losses were chalked up in the initial stages of a hard-fought battle, the French said. TURK, U.8. FORCES IN MANEUVERS ISTANBUL, Turkey Ameri can and Turkish forces began test ing the defense of NATO's most eastern frontier Monday in opera tion "Turkish Sky." The joint maneuvers will last lour cays. Louis Sutter, San Francisco Park and Recreation Commis sion president, plants the lirst of 200 Japanese cherry trees in Golden Gate Park. The trees, purchased by Japanese-Americans, represents Japanese gratitude for hospitality extended Crown Prince Akihitu during his San Francisco visit. Lett to right: Counsul General Yasasuke Katsuno, Reverend Nitten lshida, Sutter, Kashiwa Aizafa, Masako lwiwaki, Yacko Iwa aki and Ana lshida. (t'P Telephoto) State Department 'Mess' Being Cleaned WASHINGTON - R. W. Scott McLeod, security administrator of the Department o State, said Mon day it is "not valid" to contend that new security procedures have lowered morale of the U.S. For eign Service. "We are gradually cleaning up the 'mess' in the State Depart ment," McLeod said in a copy righted interview with the maga line U.S. News and World Report. But he insisted that it was being done without harm to the effective Dttss of the department, McLeod also said Sen. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) had "absolutely nothing to oo with his appointment to his present job, and he characterized as "ridiculous" any reports that a man may be fired because his su periors do not like his choice of reading matter. McLeod said that last year, the department dropped from the pay- A MERE $3000 : roll about 300 persons about whom j there were unresolved security questions. The department em . ploys about 11.000 persons. He said the number might include some who resigned before their security clearances had been completed. President Eisenhower announced a month ago that 2,200 persons had bee, dropped in the whole government under the security program. He has declined thus far to give any breakdown which would indicate how many had been found to be disloyal and how many were dropped for other reasons, such as talking or drinking too much. McLeod also said (hat since 1947, when the department starled keeping totals, more than S00 homosexuals had been dropped. He said he did not regard this as "an unusual percentage" in compari son to the general population but that it was "an intolerable per centage in a sensitive agency." r Ballston . i Ann Met7gcr models short ball gown named So Chic at the March of Dimes benefit fashion show at the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Guwn, designed by Maurice Renter, Is priced at a mere j:tnou. (UP Telephoto) DO YOU KNOW? Goodwill Industries I a sheltered ooikshnp for handicapped people . . , Your discarded rlolhinf and household Items will kerp.them Independent. Phone 4 22 IR for Tuesday pickups In Wrst Salem and South nf Center St., Fridavs North of Center St. BALLSTON M rs. Fred E d o n was hostess to the Home Exten sion Unit meeting at an all-day meeting at her home Thursday. Project leaders, Mrs. Jerome Reece and Hrs. Robert Brown, as sisted by Mrs. Robert Gould gave a demonstration on baking and decorating cakes in the shape of an Easter Bonnet, a gentlemen's hat, a dressed doll, an open book, cup cakes and several others were decorated. Present were Mrs. George Nil- son, Mrs. Andrew Campbell, Mrs. Carl Brown, Mrs. Ted Aaron, Mrs. Klwood Small, Mrs. Norman Tuf ford, Mrs. Robert Brooks, Mrs. Howard Shafer, Mrs. John Focht. Mrs. Harry Kaltenback, Mrs. Ezra Kilmer, Mrs.. Martin Van Groos, Mrs. George Gardner, Mrs. Charles Kadell, Mrs. Ernest Lenz, Mrs. Peto Lux, Mrs. Jerome Reece, Mrs. Robert Brown, Mrs. Melvin Johnson, Mrs. Clark Moon, Mrs. Edward Miller, Mrs. Frank Bissel, Miss Elsie Taylor and the hostess. Jay Sechrist has Rone to San Francisco to visit his daughter, , Mrs. Bob Myers, hospitalized there th' past several vecks. Mrs. Sechrist will remain there for awhile. Mrs. Walter Kenworthy of Oregon City and her mother, Mrs. Wlli.im Dennis of Sheridan, vis ited at the Fred Edson home last week. Charles Kadell has been con fined to lus home the past sev eral weeks suffering Irom a back Injury sustained while working ai me f.llmt i-eed & Grain com pany plant in Perrydale. Jack DeJcing, local tanner and damnum has returned to Ins home from the McMinnville hos pital whi-e he underwent major surgery a short time ago. Mrs. Mane Miller of Portland spent la: t week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elwin Small. Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Johnson of Carlton spent Sunday at the Ezra Kilmer home. Howard Kilmer has been at home the past week following in Juries suffered at a Toledo mill where he is employed. Hayesville Scouts Work on Project HAYESVILLE Boy Scout troop 20 has put in a busy week end. Saturday morning Stanley Borders, Billy Lentsch, Charles Hens, Joe Davisson, David Rich ardson, Bob Bramlet, and George Strnzut, Jr. appeared on KOCO's Aunt Hallie's children hour with scouts from the Pringle area. . A number of men worked on foundation forms for the new cabin addition Saturday, and hope to have the concrete poured soon. The fund drive is continuing with a call for donations as much money is still needed. Plans have been announced for a wall plaque to be placed in the cabin with the names of those who have do nated for the building. Sunday morning the scouts participated in services held for Scout Sunday at the Halbcrt Me morial Baptist church. They were invited to attend as a hody by the Rev. Robert E. Sanders, himself a former assistant scout master. A window display has been placed in Valley Motor company's windows hy the troop as a part of a district window contest. It will be there until next Satur day (Feb. 13.) Eighteen Teenagers Held for Drinking PORTLAND W Eighteen per sons, all 21 or under, were arrested in a raid by State Liquor Commis sion inspectors and military police here Saturday night. The raid, on a dance hall parking lot, resulted from complaints about minors drinking in cars I.I rini-Hnn McRcary of the liquor commission reported. 8 Small Boats Make Final Trip Thru Locks McMINNVILLE HI Five small pleasure boats Sunday made what was probably the final trip through the Yarr.hill River Lock. The lnrlr hiiill In lion v,ahann Dayton and Lafayette, was closed because of lack of commercial traffic in recent years. Should the need arise, the lnrlr could be put back into operation. WASHINGTON on - If events, like a horse, could be made to stand still, the Democrats and Re publicans already would have their main issues for the 1954 congres sional election in November. The Democrats are hammering on the downturn in business which has occurred under the Eisenhow er administration. And the Republicans are working overtime on the subject of Com-munists-in-government under the Democrats. By election time, business condi tions may have leveled off, as administration economists say they will. If they don't, the Democrats will have a talking point probab ly overshadowing everything else. And the issue of Communists-in-government may be pushed into the background by other develop ments before then. For instance, by November Con gress will have finished this year's work on Eisenhower's program, which affects practically everyone; taxes, social security, unions, bus iness, tariffs. The President himself has said that if his party doesn't put over a progressive program it doesn't deserve to win. The congressional score on his program will provide plenty of election issues. But at this time, before Congress even begins to act on most of the program, Communists in govern ment and the economic reverse have given the politicians on both sides something to talk about. For 20 years, beginning in the 19.12 campaign, the Democrats barged away at the fact that the big depression began under the Republicans, which may explain one reason for their hitting so hard on the downturn now. When some Republicans reacted with the charge that talk of a re cession is unethical and almost un American, it may have been an indication that recession talk was getting under their skin. And although Eisenhower himself said, when asked about this, that everyone is entitled to bis own opinion, he, too, denounced the "prophets of gloom and doom." Over the weekend Sherman Aoams, former governor of New Hampshire and now Eisenhower's assistant, said Democrats and "left-wingers" arc trying to "foist" a "Fear Deal" on the people. 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