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Arkansans On Dixon-Yates
Both Congress and the American people are fed up with
the Tennessee version of the controversial Dixon-Yates Con
tract to supply the T.V.A. with needed power which vocifer
ous Senator Kefauvcr calls the "Crime of the Century," and
a greater scandal than Teapot Dome. But the Democratic
hope to make it a 1056 campaign issue evaporated when
President Eisenhower ordered the A. E C. contract cancelled
when the Ci!'" "( Memphis government pledged the building
of a large municipal power plant to supply the city and
T.V.A. if it needed the power.
Now we have an Arkansas version of the political mess.
Four Arkansas civil leaders appeared on a TV program at
Memphis sponsored by representatives for 30 East Arkansas
cities, including West Memphis. The moderator charged Mem
phis city officials "wanted to dictate to T.V.A., where to get
its power, and they .wanted to have full say about how
much they could charge Mcmphians for their power. Since
they haven't been able to dictate all of T.V.A.'s operations
they'll spend $100 millions of Memphis money to go it alone."
Among those appearing on the program was' Francis Cleery,
former Arkansas governor.
Among the points made by the panel were:
Cancellation of the Dixon-Yates Contract will cost the Memphis
trade area $20 million in three years in loss of payrolls.
T.V.A. has been buying power from private sources for several
years.
The A.E.C. would pay for Dixon-Yates power, not Memphis.
The building of the Memphis plant is the beginning of the
nd of T.V.A.
Bond holders are granted right to fix rates high enough to
guarantee interest and repayment regardless of operating conditions
and expense.
.It was also brought out that the T.V.A. could not supply
the area with adequnte power
own facilities, and that "many
being made by persons with selfish interests." G. P.
Three New Investments Here
Monday's Capital Journal contained an unusually impor
tant dayjs grist of news for Salem.
Meier 4: Frank will build a big super-market for Elmer
Berg near the new store, to be opened, if possible, at the same
time as the store itself. This is also important as suggesting
the prospect of similar developments on other ground owned
by the Portland company across the street from the new
store.
Also, a new, modern cement block plant for Salem was an
nounced by a Kansan who picked Salem as the best place in
the Pacific Northwest for such an industry. Best living con
ditions and best prospect for future building construction.
Then on Tuesday we were able to announce the begin
ning of work on Safeway's new store on South Commercial,
which will cost more than a quarter million exclusive of site.
Step by step, sometimes two
Salem forges toward its "manifest destiny" which none of us
can clearly see yet.
Clark Gnbl'e takes his fifth wife, the former mate of a
sugar heir, it is announced. This latest Gable romance has
taken an unusually long time
admirers had probably given him up for lost to matrimony.
Ban On Auto Racing?
His critics accuse Senitor Dick Neuberger of thinking up
headline catching ideas for release on days when the news is
dull, improving their front page appeal.
Whether this is true or not, he has rolled out a bunch of
em in recent months. Today's is a proposal for a ban on
auto racing, of which Indianapolis is the best known. It has
become a scandal, with its steady toll of death and injuries.
How serious the senator is we do not know, but he "has
something" that ought to be considered. We're not especially
timid or finicky, but we've acquired a growing sense of
disgust with the Indianapolis race that desecrates a sacred
national holiday devoted to those who died in a much better
cause than entertaining a gladiatorial contest type of crowd
that comes out to see who will
We hope the junior senator introduces his bill and lets
the backers of these races come before a Senate committee
to explain why this type of sport (?) should continue in n
supposedly, civilized land. Maybe they'll have a convincing
defense. But let's hear it.
New Low in Murder Motive
Two couples were laughing gayly in a tavern near Flint
Mich., harming no one. Hut it seems they "irritated" a truck
driver who was also patronizing the place.
Whereupon this chap shot these four persons through the
head, killing throe and probably fatally wounding the fourth.
When arrested all the motie he was able to offer was irrita
tion at their laughter. They were all strangers to him.
We've noted a striking increase in this sort of senseless,
motiveless crime in recent months. What is happening to us?
Is it this grist of murder a minute television shows to which
millions are exposed every night, which gradually makes
gunplay seem the natural sequence to even a minor irritation?
Is the fast, gruelling pace at
mental cases out of a hit of u
Whatever the ithmiii, the efftrts are
.
extremely threatening. Tht:
about to build near Portland,
facilities here and at Pend'.eton are the smallest part of the
uncial cost of such a trend, if it nmtmiirv
A (Iramlmolhrr IMavs Safe
We rejoiced last night wtirn Grnnilmother Catherine Kreit
7.cr (leaded to take a sure tiling rather than risk its loss by
gambling for twice as much.
Mrs. Kreit7er had won $;t'J.000 on a TV ' dnulde or nothing"
program and had the choice ol gambling that she cm. hi
nnswer another tough question and get S'.i-t.OOO, with the risk
of losing the bulk of the $112,000 if she missed.
These performers usually keep going till they lose out,
but Mrs. Kreitzer, who had been given time to think it over,
and who probably got some good advice too, decided .-he
already had good thing and would ca.sh in her chips.
"Nothing venture, nothing gain." is a good motto, up to
a point, but it can be overdone. There comes a time when
it is best to play safe, and we admire Mr. KreitJer's courage
in disappointing the thrill seekers and taking what she'd
already won.
Those kind of questions are hard to answer, even by the
most learned, and a big slice of that additional $:I2.000 would
have gone to the tux collectors even if she had won it. One
assumes somebody will warn her not to spend all the $;12.000.
for that much income In one year calls for a pretty big tax too.
DEFEND ALL LIBERTY
Wrndrll YlillVlf
Now more thau ever we must
keep In Uie fore-front ol our 1
Salem, Ore.. Wfri., July 13, 1955
to meet demands through its
misstatements of facts are
or three of 'em at a time,
to flower, and some of his
die this time.
which life moves now making
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on top of the expansion of thf
I minds the fact that whenever we
take away the liberties of tfioe
whom we hate, we are owning the
wav (0 ()5s ol liberty lor those
whom we love.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
New Type of Hillbilly Calls
Himself a Mountain Man
By HAL
MARYVILLE, Tenn. W There
is a new Kind 01 -niiiDiuy.
Here in the Great Smokies Heart
of Old Hillbillyland the mountain
people have found a new way of
life that enables them to keep
their ancient freedom while es
caping the poverty of the past.
The fictional hillbilly has become
part of American folklore. He is a
shiftless figure in overalls .vlio
runs through the hills barefooted.
a guitar slung over his snouiuer.
an old hog rifle in one hand, a
jug of moonshine in uie oiner.
But vour real mountaineer isnt
that kind of man at all.
The popular idea of a hillbilly
tickles his sense ot humor. Some
times he doesn't mind playing up
to this role a bit (or the tourists,
but he doesn't relish having a
"flntland furrlncr" call- him
"hillbillv." He prefers to be known
as a Southern mgnianaer, a nnis
man or mountain man. ''
The mountain men, marvolously
quick to learn new skills, now come
down Into the valleys to work
the factories but most still
cling stubbornly to their homes in
the hills.
Some drive up to 50 miles to
their jobs. When the quitting
whistle blows, they climb into
their cars and drive back to the
mountains, and till their hillside
patches. They like the factory
money, but they don I want to
'ome down and live in the cities.
They don't like city air.
Typical of these mountaineers is
Robert Clark, a 43-year-old black
smith in the Al.COA aluminum
plant here. Kach day he drives
ten miles to work from his 12-ocrc
mountain form where he lives with
his wife and six children.
Clark raises much of his own
food. He can afford the comforts
of the city man. but he wouldn't
willingly move to the city if you
gave him a house with five batlv
rooms.
"Coon times are changing the
mountains fast." he said. "Very
few people live in log houses any
more.
"The mountain people no longer
have the desire to live in town.
Ivecause they can now have every
thing in town they need. They have
electric stoves, television and ra
dio "We have good schools in the
country now. too. There's an si.
0:10 school going up in my neigh
borhood. "Why should I want to live in
town? iou know. I ve never hod a
haircut
shave or
shoeshinc
in t'iwn in all my days?
"The cnuntry's the brs
t place,
!(' n better nine lo r.vse KtU.
Thrv lr,rn how to save-and tWult reveal the fact that attitude.
don't cot into so much trouble.
Mv children have no desire to live"" Hllss,a ncr markedly along
in town." 1,ncs-
While revenue ngents are err- A substantial majority of per
tain there is still a great amount sons who have attended college
of bootlegging in the Tennessee are n favor, while a majority of
hills. Clark ?avs the growth of those who have attended grade
fact on jobs ha:, cut It down. (school are opposed, as the follow-
When I was a boy you could
count seven still from where I
Off-Job Safety
l.os Anselpn Times
On tho job safety programs
industry have matte such sinifi
cant advances in the past few
years that in many cases workers
are now likely to be much more
" nw ",KTh' h"i ff
than tliev are when thev are off;
duty. As a result some industries
are placing added emphasis on
safety niter hours.
One larce company Du Pont'
has renlied some important re-
ults The nearly SO.000 employ
ol this companv reduced their off -
the-job iniurv freqeen.-v rate hv
X per rent' from the ' preceding
vear. Through survevs Ihe com-
panv has found that their em-
ploves had less inunes awav from
work than does the general public,
and that . alety consciousness on
the Job tends to create safety con -
sciousncss off the job.
TAME NOW
Nrta? Jmm better: tham H
M flsPCkMY House I
BOYLE
lived," he said. "Now there Isn't
one.
"The liquor now is being made
deep in the mountains where there
are no jobs. Many of the men who
made moonshine in the old days
never touched it themselves. Th;y
did it only to earn money for the
family."
Clark who, like most mountain
men, is deeply religious, neither
smokes nor dinks.
"I never bought a bottle of beer
in my life," he said, "and I'm
not about to."
He feels he is pretty lucky. He
has retained the rugged independ
ence and individualism of his an
cestors, he has achieved an ecol
nomic security they never knew
and he can still enjoy the su-
snme ana shadow and free-blowing
winds of the mountains.
Hillbilly? Clark wouldn't trade
places with any citybilly in the
land. He has life made.
Opinion Splits 50-50 on U.S.
and Soviet Tourist Exchange
By GEORGE GALLUP
(Director. American Institute of Public Opinion)
PRINCETON, N.J., July 12 If
Moscow were to agree to let hun
dreds of U.S. tourists travel about)
in Russia, should we let as many'
Hues i an s come to this country
in a sort of "tourist exchange."
That suggestion, when put to a
cross-section, of typical citizens
across America, finds public opin
ion splitting rij-ht down the' mid
dle. For every person questioned in
an Institute survey who approves
of the idea, there is one opposed.
About one adult in every eight
is undecided.
Prompted by the wide press cov
erage of Soviet Foreign Minister
V. M. Molotov's recent cross-country
tour of the U, S. en route to
the tenth anniversary session of the
United Nations, the Institute as
signed its field reporters to sound
out popular sentiment on the idea
of a U. S.Soviet exchange of tour
ists, as follows:
"If Russia agrees to take hun
dreds of U. S. tourists, should wt
agree to let as many Russians tour
this country?"
The vote
Yes, should agree 44
No, should not 44
No opinion It
There have been reports from
Moscow recently that the Soviet!
are planning lo open certain sec-
'lions of Russia to the tourist trade.
Analysis ol today s survey re
toward an exchange ol tourists
ing table shows:
Col- Hint- Grade
Irre Schl Si'h'l
Yes st 4.n J2S
No !7 45. SO
Nti opinion ... 5 11 18
nffi-inia nt nnininn nt&si chmt-
hv .MBnhical rttion. Where-
as a majority in the Kar West
are in favor, a majority oi South
erners are opposed. In the Kast, as
well as in the Midwest, the weipht
a' entinwni is slightly m favor,
, . . ?
The survev also finds men con
siderably more in favor of the idea
than women.
Kesults of today's survey offer
an interesting contrast to two In
stitute studies earlier this year.
j ln APr"' ,ne, " 10 lmuc
ruuP Ku'n farmers to
conic o this country to learn the
latest (arming methods used oy I.1
S. farmers met with the approval
' P" r'"'- while 37 per cent
said is wis a poor idea and the
remaining I per cent expressed no
1 opinion.
1 In companion ttudy, suable ,
Salem 40 Years Ago
July 1.1, 1915
By BEN MAXWELL
Business Men's League of the
Commercial club had favored clos
ing stores Thursday afternoon 40
years ago to allow employes to
see the Liberty Bell aboard a car
on a Front street siding.
Royal Anne cherries grown by
B. I. Ferguson of Polk County had
received first prize at the Panama
Pacific exposition.
Dr. Carl G. Doney. new presi
dent for Willamette university, had
his arrival in Salem set for July
14, 1915.
Capital Journal carried this ad
vertisement 40 years ago: "A great
many more men would go to church
if there was a law against it.
Smoke Apex, the extra mild 5c
cigar.
Darling's Delicatessen, 495 Court
street, had advestised: New Eng
land boiled dinner. Wc fill a quart
pail of this old-fashioned substan
tial dinner for 2.c.
Driveways on the north and
south side of Marion County court-
nouse were being paved.
majorities approved of a V. S.
Soviet exchange of athletes.
Fifty-nine per cent said it would
be a good idea to send U. S. ath
letes to Russia to participate in
athletic contests, 31 per cent said
it would be a poor idea and 10 per
cent expressed no opinion.
A somewhat larger majority, 63
per cent, thought it would be a
good idea to have Soviet athletes
come to this country, while 29 per
cent were opposed and 8 per cent
had no opinion.
COMING FRIDAY With East
West trade likely to he a prime
topic for discussion at the Big
Four meeting In Geiu-m. uliere
does John Q. Citizen stand on the
question of (he I'. S. and Russia
working out an arrangement to
buy and sell eoods lo r.irh
other?
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NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG
Johnson's Illness Sets Back
a ytuet Presidential tfoom,
By RAY
WASHINGTON Texas may I uratively, over the Upper Colorado
have lost the chance to win a Water Project. Opposing the ven
rare honor (or one of her emi- ture, Representative Craig Hose
nent citizens as a result ol the mer of California scoffs at the plan
serious illness of Senator Lyndon
B. Johnson.
A definite movement for nom
ination of the Senate majority
leader for the presidency had
been quitely started by his
friends on Capitol Hill before he
was hospitalized by a severe
heart attack. It had the tenative
support of numerous members
who would have preferred- the
progressively minded but non
radical Texan to Adlai E. Steven
son of Illinois or Governor Aver
ell Harriman of New York.
Evidence of Senator Johnson's
popularity and strength was giv
en in the Senate eulogy of him
after his spat with President Eis
enhower over the Democrats' leg
islative record.
Senator Harry F. Byrd. Virgin
ia conservative, joined with such
outstanding "liberals" as Sena
tor Herbert H. Lehman of New
York and Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey of Minnesota. It is
about the first time that these
spokesmen for the opposing fac
tions agreed on any thing.
SUCCESSFUL '
PARTY STRATEGY
Johnson is the Garner Rayburn
-Jones type
of Democrat, j.lurKfvs loiiiiuc irutn
though more "liberal" in thought
than the former Vice president or
the former head of the Recon
struction Finance Corporation.
He is considered to be a protege
and follower of Speaker Rayburn,
who never broke with F.D.R. or
Truman.
He has never been identified
with the Lehman-Humphrey
group, however. And yet, he has
managed to harness and hold the
two blocs in line on most major
issues. When they disagree, it is
without rancor.
Thus, the likable and strapp
ing Texan is almost the only
Presidential possibility in sight
who could count on the loyalty
of the Byrd-Byrnes Shivers- Ken-
non clique, which backed Ike in
1052, and the Lehman-Harnman-
Stevenson-Humphrey wing.
AT 1952 DEMOCRATIC
CONVENTION -
It is not generally realized.
but candidates from the South
and allied sections the South
west and border states mobiliz
ed almost a nominating majority
at the 1852 Convention. And their
total strensth does not include
all the 382 Mi votes which went
Tennessee, who is not especial
ly popular with Dixie conserva
tives. Senator Richard B. Russell of
Georgia achieved a high of 294
on the second ballot. Senator Al
bert Barkley of Kentucky had 78
despite the open opposition of
labor leaders, on the grounds of
his age Senator Robert S. Kerr
of Oklahoma polled 65. It is esti
mated that at least 100 of Sena
tor Kefauver's total would have
preferred Johnson. Op this basis,
the Possible Johnson total would
have been more than 500.
JOHNSON'S STATUS
Another pro-Johnson factor Is
his extremely warm relationship!
with Senator Russell. Although 1
the Georgian is- well qualified:
for the Presidency, the anti-Negro
felling in his state as exem-l
plified by the two Talmadges, j
father and son. bars him from!
preferment Moreover, Russell
led the Southern forces in the
fight on the Fair Employment
Practices Commission. Johnson. !
on the other hand, has never
been involved deeply in racial
problems. j
Johnson may recover sufficient-,
ly to re enter the race as the
South's most serious effort to
capture the nomination in many ;
years. But the experience with t
the ailing F.D.R. in 1944-45 will
center attention on his health, j
As of today, however, his side
lining operates to the advantage j
of Stevenson and the DeSapioj
entry, Governor Harriman. It!
leaves Dixie without a candidate
save Kefauver, and he has not
gained prestige in the current
session.
"APPLESAUCE ON
CAPITOL HILL"
Two House members ha e been
hurling fruit at each other. fig-
I I -J-l.
.1 . 1 Tt i
TUCKER
to increase farm acreage witn
daily jibes which he lists in the
Congressional Record as ' Bananas
on Pike's Peak." '
Representative William Dawson
of Utah, a pro-project man, reg
ularly characterizes Hosmer's
thrusts as "Applesauce on Capital
Hill".
' Red "Austerity"
Svenska Dagbladtl, Stockholm
"Austerity" stories have begun
to crop up in Russia. The latest
one tells of an optimistic Mos
cow citizen who entered a large
'people's store."
'Have you any overcoats! tne
hoDeful Muscovite inquired.
"No, we are sold out of them,"
Ihe salesman replied.
"Have 'you any shirts, then?"
the customer asked.
"No. We haven't had any fer
quite some time.
"Perhaps I could get a pair of
socks?"
' Socks, socks! ... We haven't
got any socks, and we are tired
of your chatter. This is a store
and not an information office!"
, t 1 1 .1 t .1
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Following World War II, a pair
of German artists began restoring
frescoes in a church damaged by
the bombings. The announcement,
soon afterward, that they had un
covered painted-over pictures dat
ing back to the Thirteenth Century,
caused wide interest in the Europ
ean art world.
A year later, one of the artists
confessed that the frescoes were
bogus. But no one would believe
him until it was noticed that there
were two turkeys in the "Thir
teenth Century" frescoes. Turkeys
were unknown in Europe until aft
er Columbus discovered America.
A Smile or Two
American Legion
Mr. Jeffries looked out the win
dow to see his visitor busily try
ing to get the dog to sit up.
"You aren't going to get any
results from that animal," called
Jeffries. "That's the laziest dog
I ever saw."
"Just how lazy is he?" asked
the visitor. -
"Why he's so lazy," said Jef
fries, "that he waits (or another
dog to bark and then he nods his
head."
HE SAW 'TOO MUCH RED
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Nehru says he didn't see any
Iron Curtain in Russia. Maybe he
was distracted by the Red carpet.
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OPEN FORUM
Sex Deviates Arouse -
This Writpr'a Anuer
we make It safe to
put oar child in his own room,
in his own bed, with his Mammy
and Daddy in the next room?
Maybe the answer should be a
high electric fence around each
American home, maybe a 10-foot
mote with man-eating sharks.
No, I think it is obvious to most
of us the answer lies in our in
effective legislation in. regard to
sexual deviates.
Some time ago George Putnam,
Editor Emeritus of t!ie Cap 'al
Journal, wrote an excellent edi
torial on the subject. "I'm with
you, George" but what cari we
do besides write letters and edi
torials, perhaps write to our con
gressmen? .
However, it seems the so-called
'experts" sav the mojt effect e
solution
castration, Is unciviliz-
i cd. Well if this state of affairs is
civilized, I'm taking the next
pack train to Kenya where a per
son can raise a lamily in com
parative safety of the Mau Mau
neighbors.
I'm sure there are those of you
who disagree with me. But, I'm
wandering if Danna Sue Davis
(age 21 had been your sweet, cud
dly little girl, would you still disa
gree? When I put my little girl to bed
last night, I had the feeling that
I should spend the night sitting
beside her crib with my loaded
shotgun. I can assure you I did
not sleep well tost night, as prob
ably a million other mothers did
not.
If these fiends are ever caught
they are usually sentenced to a
mental institution for a few
years, pronounced cured and
then let loose to reck their havoc
on some other innocent baby.
Is this the justice our fore
fathers meant for us? It seem
their idea of legal protection has
been lost in a pile of legal ma
nipulations and politics.
If each of you who are enough
concerned about the welfare of our
children would write a letter to
your congressman, maybe the
number of voters demanding action
would be enough to get the great
wheels of justice in motion.
MRS. RICHARD GRENZ
Salem
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