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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1957)
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 21, 1957 SOCIAL LEVEL MAINTAINED Yank Officers Can't Date German Maids GOEPPINGEN, Germany W Some officers o! the U.S. 8th In fantry Division have been dating German maids employed in Army households, and the division com mander has passed the word to stop it. An Army spokesman said an officer, for example, might take his girl friend to an Army cock tail party attended by her. em ployers. "11 . might be embarrassing to both the maid and to her employ er," he said. "We believe it would be inappropriate for an officer to date a maid who is working in an American housing area." A division headquarters spokes man denied a report on the new fraternization hub-bub carried by the Overseas Weekly, an inde pendent English-language publica tion primarily for U.S. service personnel. The paper quoted Col. Lynn D. SrnUh of Carlisle, Pa., division chief of staff, as having told his junior officers: "It is forbidden to go out with anybody who works for a living. This includes ribbon and stock sales clerks at the PX, snack bar employes . anybody who is below your social level." The spokesman said Smith made no such statement and add ed: "Any allegations that the Army is against 'working girls' is ab solutely absurd. After all, we work for a living too." Army officials said that Maj. Gen. Thomas Wallingtnn, the divi sion commander, had become per turbed by recent stories in Ger man papers "about officers who Portland Men File Contempt Guilt Appeals SAN FRANCISCO W) - Appeals of two Portland men from con tempt of Congress convictions are under consideration by the U. S. Court of Appeals after arguments Wednesday. The two, Donald N. Wollam and John Rogers MacKenzic, appear ed before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Portland in June, 1954. They were charged with contempt of Congress after they refused to answer questions as to residence, employment, ed ucation and age. They- were convicted and sen tenced In January, 1955. Federal Judge George H. Boldt gave Wol lam a one-year sentence and a $250 fine; MacKenzie 10 months and $250 fine. Their attorney, Norman Leon ard, San Francisco, contended Wednesday that the committee's questions "were not related to any valid legislative purpose" but might have been incriminating "as part of the attempt to identify the men with Communist Party activity." But Robert R. Carney, assistant V. S. attorney from Portland, ar gued that the questions were only for preliminary identification and were not the kind that could in criminate the men. He described their refusal to answer as an abuse of the constitutional privil ege they invoked in doing so. The court gave no indication when it would return a decision Demos Oppose Savings Bonds Interest Boost WASHINGTON W Opposition developed in Congress today to giving the Treasury new auinori tv to adjust interest rates on gov ernment savings bonds in line with money market conditions. The Treasury last Thursday an nounced it would seek legislation In give it the same flexibility in fixing interest rales on savings bonds that.it how has on other tDes of government securities. It proposes to raise from 3 to 3' per cent the interest rale on Seric E and H bonds. The action was prompted by a marked slowdown in purchases of savings bonds. Last year, re demptions outweighed purchases bv a considerable margin. Some oi this situation has been attribu ted to a general rise in interest rates, making other types of In vestment more attractive. House Democratic leaders said privately a good case could be made lor higher rates on Series E and H bonds. But they con tended it was a matter for con gressional rnlher than administra tive decision. Key Democrats contend the size of the government's fiscal opera tions heavily influences interest rates in general. 51 Compete in U.S. Pie Bake CHICAGO (UPl Fifty-one youns women today vied for the title of "best cherry pie baker" in the nation. i The cooks, representing all 48 dates, Alaska. Hawaii and Can ada, matched skills in the grand ballroom of the Sheraton Hotel. Tie winner of the "silver iuhi- Ire" national cherry pie baking' contest will present her pie to President hurnhnwrr in Ha-li-Irtton. She'll sl recei a J300 colleie scholarship. ant (hBmcnluA c.:i..ll II i . T. ""n I last nignt. might be i detrimental." Walling-1 Dr. Richard J. Russell said, ton told Col. Smith to call in the j however, there are signs of a re junior officers for a little talk. ccnt siwing in this trend. He Smith cautioned the officers said the average rise in the last it was described as advice and : 18.000 years was about 450 feet, not an official order that it possibly concentrated in 130 ccn would be unwise for them to date turies, or about 3'i feet per cen- utniian maias or any govern- meni employe who might be able to give them preferential treat ment, or help them in their ca reers in any way." The Americans also employ German girls as sec retaries, typists. PX sales clerk, snack bar employes and the like. MONDAY: FRIDAY OTHER DAYS: 12 NOON 10 A.M. to 9:30 A.M. 8 i . ? 4 f STORE HOURS: f PI in ?n FllTinrinn -ii ap" a mATmimr ti n rimr ? II, m IN II III II IIUIIhhfK IHIII i ML IIIHIV W i' V cut $61. 07 to clear! JfeSCSI - This de luxe "top-of-the-line" Genera! 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M v -i i i j otiiu lury No News Conference WASHINGTON Wi - President F.iscnhowcr will not hold a news conference this week, the White House said Thursday. to 9 P.M. 9 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. i-mxuww mni PiiifTOii1? j . i ,, I J-fl Cr) Tli Th f Y i ' ' MllllJvJt.V I I INS 1 f ff li illlfl M (I Mil M lOTNliTifflra : i fsrv ""Ssxssr- i mam u.i 'uivjii.utv i 1p Sunthin fftth wilhoul fadin . , , at c(o'rM fll"' tumhltd rS fluf fed, nw GE Air Fftihenr ddi fr -, "bfrydly" fgrrt(. BETWEEN GODFREY, Herbert Hoover Had NEW YORK Wi Loose leaves in! than that of any speaker during a television notebook: I the campaign. 9:30 a.m. Man at the A. C. Any theories? Did Godfrey Nielsen Co., television audience ! help?. Did Lucille Ball help?- Or rating firm, telephoned and 1 did Mr. Hoover do it all by him asked: "Guess what politician had! self? You take your pick. the biggest television audience during the paigns?" 1956 political cam- Eisenhower? No. Nixon? No. Stevenson? Oh, no, no. Then who? Herbert Hoover. The former President came on CBS-TV for five minutes on Mon day evening, Oct. 29, in' time pre empted from the Arthur Godfrey Talent Scouts program and just before "I Love Lucy." His audi ence, reports Nielsen, was larger bi 1Mb, capatily , iprinkltr, Itghud dial i J-r -u.JA.-U-X. i m u v l 1 0 We. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL LUCY 10:45 a.m. A call from Phila delphia, with good news: - On Tuesday. March 5, NBC-TV will again present "Monganga," a filmed study of a medical mission ary in the Belgian Congo. If you missed it last October, tune in. To quote this department at the lime, it was "one of the most moving and absorbing documen taries in many months." And that still goes these many months later. , . a iortatie lid innnor, Biggest TV 12:30 p.m. Leaning forward and speaking with sincerity, Gin ger Rogers said: "Yes, 1 am interested In doing a regular television program, but I haven't found what I want." What does she want? "How -will I know until I sec it?" she asked, smiling. "But I'd want to include all the things I like to do: drama, comedy, a little dancing, a little singing." 4 p.m. Mail call: Mrs. Gregory P. Carter of New port News, Va., writes "You havo just lust one reader well, perhaps not a reader but certainly a follower of your criti cism. Now only curiosity will I T? Ii wiiiy iiJV u ween "TV xv y- I no down payment I lGCfJ Audience keep me reading your column. In your column on NBC-TV's 'May erling' you startled and disap pointed this quite ' normal school teacher (a 'commoner' to be sure.) "Granted that 'Mayerling' Is a fragile love story, is there no place left in today's world for the I enchantment, the tenderness - of jsuch a theme? You tell your read ers that today s dramatist and actor must labor to arouse the sympathy of us 'commoners' for the rich. "Must you, too, Mr. Mercer, perpetuate the materialistic phil osophy of today's America? Must everything revolve around class struggle? . . ." BIRTHDAY anlhmknl dealer Gcncril Electric appliances APPLIANCE HEADQUARTERS SECOND FLOOR Mail anil plume mden, Plus thipftinf rml ta areas outside li.i ft Pregnant Women Found Very Susceptible to NEW YORK (UP) A new scientific study of polio-and-the-pregnanl-woman is going to make medical science even more eager for all women of child-bearing age to have the Salk anti-polio vaccine. The study was made by Dr. Mila E. Rindgc, epidemiologist of the Connecticut State Department of Health. Its most important find ing was that pregnant women arc even more susceptible than had been thought. ' It showed also that after the age of 15, females arc more sus ceptible than males. From 1951 through 1955, 2,167 polio coses were reported to the department. Of that number, 456 were females over 15 and 79 per cent of them 17.3 per cent of the total number truck delivery routes. Section 1 Page; 11 Folio Attacks of cases were pregnant. since in the general population according to accepted statistic, only seven per cent of female between 20 and 44 are pregnant at any given time, 17.3 per cent is an eloquent percentage. It shows the pregnant woman if much more susceptible than th woman who isn't. COYOTE BOUNTY MONTPEL1ER, Vt. ,JV-AII th coyotes aren't howling on Wester , ridges there are soma ' in thi Green Mountains too. '''"""j" A hill in the Vermont legislature, would offer a $25 bounty to anyv one who displays a coyote carcaa. before a state fish and game otffc cial. -J! ALE our regular o