Capital iAlJournal "
AN INDEMNDINT NIWSPArH-IITAIUSHID IN 111!
Bernard Mainwarlng (1897-1957) Editor and Publisher 1953-1957
E. A. Brown, Publisher Glenn Cushman, Managing Editor
George Putnam.Editor Emeritus
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Ouch! A Sales Tax!!
To begin with the Legislature looked upon
a sales tax as anathema. On the surface at
least it still meets contemptuous scorn in
that body as a thing of utter evil.
And yet a sales tax has been introduced.
By whom? The House committee on taxation,
no less. The State Tax Commission sires it,
but its mother and sponsor is the tax com
mittee. It calls for a tax on the selling price in
real estate transactions. The bill carefully
repeats that this includes standing timber.
Presumably the seller and not the buyer is
to pay the tax, but it's still a sales tax. A
neat subterfuge is that some of the law
makers put it in the category of property
tax, and since Oregon has a policy against
state property taxes, the bill would give its
revenues to the counties instead of the state.
The proposed tax is one-half of one per
cent on the selling price.
Selling price, says the bill, "shall mean
the consideration, in money or anything of
value, paid or delivered on contract to be
paid or delivered in return for the transfer
of real property or estate or interest therein,
and shall include the amount of any lien,
mortgage, contract, indebtedness, or other
encumbrance given to secure payment of the
purchase price or any part thereof, or re
maining unpaid on such property at the time
of such sale, including the amount of any
lien or encumbrance existing against the
property and agreed to be paid by the pur
chaser, but shall not include the amount of
any outstanding lien or encumbrance for
taxes, special benefits or improvements in
favor of the United Stales, the Stale of Ore
gon, or any political subdivision of the Slate
of Oregon, or a municipal or public corpora
tion of this state."
The seller is defined as "any individual,
assignee, receiver, trustee in bankruptcy,
trust, estate, firm, copartnership, joint ven
ture, club, company, joint stock company,
business trust, corporation, association, so
ciety, or any group of individuals acting as a
unit, whether mutual, cooperative, fraternal,
non-profit or otherwise, but shall not include
the United States, the Stale of Oregon, politi
cal subdivisions of the Slate of Oregon or
municipal of public corporations of the state."
The seller would be required to file
three copies of an affidavit with the county
clerk covering all details of the transaction,
one for the clerk, one for the assessor, and
one to be relumed to seller. These would
be confidential records, though the lax com
mission or the board of equalization might
have a look at them if necessary.
Penalty? 0, sure. Fall to file that affi
davit and they'll fine you from $10 to $50, or
if somebody accuses you of swearing falsely
and proves it to the satisfaction of the court
the fine will be from $100 to J 500. If the tax
isn't paid in 30 days it will bear interest at
one-half of one per cent per month, and the
interest will be added to the tax and like
wise bear interest. And, by the way, the clerk
or recorder won't record a deed of the sale
untl the tax is paid.
There was a time when the Legislature
teered clear of what was called class legisla
tion. It was unconstitutional, they said.
What's happened to that old principle?
Partnership Power Plan
Interior Secretary Seaton in his annual
report just Issued made a new plea for the
Elsenhower administration's "partnership
power policy." This policy was first an
nounced by his predecessor, Douglas McKay.
The policy stems from the administration's
pledge to let local public and private interests,
working in partnership with the Federal Gov
ernment, handle power development when
ever possible.
This contradicts rumors thai the partner
ship policy had been abandoned, though Sec
retary Seaton has repeatedly advocated it.
He said:
"There are a great many smaller projrets with
Iremendnus Implications lor the (uture. which the
people of the West can and undoubtedly will build
(or themselves often by Individual or cooperative
action among themselves and. when occasion re
quires, in partnership with the Federal Govern
ment." Mr. Seaton warned that the cost of Fed
N eral irrigation and power projects is going
i up, along with other things. Most of the
simple, inexpensive projects have been built,
he declared. "Today it is clearly evident thai
the unit costs of most future reclamation
work will continue to rise."
The secretary said as costs go tip. water
users will find it harder to pay for their
share of new reclamation projects. The in
come from the sale of electricity generated
at Government dams will have to bear an in
creasing share of the cost of Federal reclama
tion projects, he added.
"Since repayment Is the foundation of the re
clamation program," he declared, "the return by
beneficiarirs ol Irrigation of their fair share of the
cost mustenntinua as a primary requirement How
ever, it seems problematical whether many major
water developments of the (uture can he under
taken which can he completely repaid by the
water user ... It is apparent that we must con
tinue to look to power, even more In the future
than in the past, as the paying partner of reclama
tion." CP.
Senate Debacle?
Another hiatus Is In prospect for the Ore
gon State Senate, this time in mid-session.
Why?
Mumps.
Pressure groups and lobbyists who have
their dcpendablcs among the lawmakers have
been warned that any member who hasn't had
the mumps Is a poor risk. He may not be
around when needed.
The young son of one of the members
has been fraternizing with all of them, it
I reported ,and now the boy has the mumps.
They've all been exposed, and a general on
tlaught of the ailment it imminent for all,
that is, who haven't had 'em. The senators
are all checking their life histories to see
how they stand. Fifteen out at one time would
bring a legislative debacle.
Mumps is (or do you say "are") a non
dangerous ailment that nevertheless puts a
man on his back a week or two just as
abundant caution. Otherwise the disease
may further expand its visit. '
KAY TUCKIiR
RAY TUCKER
'Hair Curlers' in
Washington Alarmed
WASHINGTON The depression "hair
curlers" at Washington have become pro
voked and alarmed over growing conserva
tive criticism of the "swol- wpasSBWfjr
jen jMsemiuwer ouugei anu
jibes that the Administra
tion has "gone New Deal
ish." They murmur, al
though privately, that the
friendly but suspicious crit
ics are biting the hand that
made them prosperous and
freed them from Demo
cratic competition, controls
and crackdowns.
Although Secretary Humphrey now re
grets his "hair curling" remark, and seeks to
make amends by restoring public confidence,
the current efforts to repair the damage are
being made by lower-level but responsible
economists. They are holding secret seminars
all over the Capital with businessmen and
newspapermen.
Their alarm derives from. the recent dis
play of Wall Street jitters, where blue chip
stocks dropped sharply after expressions of
concern by Humphrey and Herbert Hoover.
Officialdom has also been shaken by the
prospect , that its fears may be reflected in
cutbacks in industrial expansion plans, cur
tailment of purchasing power and general
slagnation.
Washington's Walling Is Resented
Ironically, il is F.D.lt.'s "economic royal
ists" who resent Washington's wailing most
bitterly, even as they condemn the Admin
istration for so-called "extravagance" and for
expanding Roosevelt-Truman services and re
forms. In recent statements, such Republican
institutions as the United Slates Chamber of
Commerce and the National Association of
Manufacturers have indulged in this kind
of criticism.
But the most devastating indictment came
from a business and financial magazine edited
by a former Eisenhower economic adviser
and a man once mentioned as a possible
Cabinet member. It scoffed at talk of a "de
pression," , and taunted Ike, Humphrey,
Hoover and Weeks for their contradictory
comments on the current and future state
of the country's economy.
It concluded with the biting remark to the
effect that "too many jawbones are rattling"
at Washington for the nation's good. In view
of the source of this criticism, this is politico
economic heresy,
Soothing Analyses of Budget
Here are a few of the belated and second
thought soothing analyses of the $71.8-billion
budget and the Administration's trends now
being distributed by official spokesmen who
must be nameless:
Although the budget is the highest In
peacetime annals, it Is balanced, and infla
tion rarely occurs under such conditions. The
Government expects to spend less than it
receives in revenue. Gross national income
has risen by 12.5 per cent, Federal spending
by only 11 pdr cent in two years.
Population has increased by 11,000,000 in
two years, with no sign of a letdown. The
labor force has grown by almost 4,000,000
with constantly Increasing wages and savings,
and with a minimum of unemployment. Al
though Ike has reduced the number of em
ployees, the cost has hijen boosted by salary
increases granted by Congress.
Heavier Demand for Public Services
Although the demand for public services
has become heavier, they were, of necessity,
neglected during World War II and the Ko
rean conflict toads, schools, hospitals, re
search of all kinds. The expanding population
and changing social and economic conditions,
according to this viewpoint, require greater
and more expensive government efforts to
ameliorate the new strains and burdens on
its citizens.
The Communist menace and our major
Allies' military inadequacies get the princi
pal blame for peak expenditures. Push button
warfare and weapons grow more costly day
by day. National defense national security
accounts for more than 00 per cent of the
hudget. Paying for past wars alone there
are 22.000.000 living veterans exceeds the
total of Hoover's budget, as does the inter
est on the national debt. Both are about $7
billion.
For (Juirh Reading
Ponsonhy Showed Win
British Diplomat Viscount Ponsonhy was
for some years the Ambassador at the Court
of Constantinople, then dominated by the
Sultan of Turkey, an absolute monarch.
The Sultan subjected the diplomatic corps
In repeated indignities, and at one time got
it Into his head that the diplomats were not
showing sufficient humility when ushered
Into his presence.
To correct this, be had a very low door
built, through which they would have to
crawl to enter the throne room.
Ponsonhy made the Sultan rearet this. He
crawled through the door, as directed, but
crawled through backward.
When the Sultan saw the wide expanse of
breeches looming Into view, his fare turned
purple. Rut be got the point, and the ioor
tfitobutiwd. ftl,wJii.ujul.
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JAMES MARLOW T
Bi-Partisan
Policy Has
Been Split
By JAMES MARI.OW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON m President
Eisenhower's meeting with con
gressional leaders was an encore.
He met with
them 51 days
ago on the same
p r o bl e m: the
Middle Last. In
that time the
problem h a i
& deepened.
So has confU'
slon over this
country's think
ing on the Mid
dle East, includ
jamki MABLowing Israel. For
SI days the administration or,
rather, Secretary of Stale Dulles
has talked almost continually on
the Middle East.
In that time the cherished Dem-
crutic - Republican bipartisanship
on foreign policy has been badly
split. And Unites has been treated
to the most angry Democratic
criticism of his four years in of
fice, even to being called a
"liar."
.Should Have Talked Less
If Dulles had talked less, and
more to the point, there would
now be a clearer understanding
at home and abroad of what the
administration has in mind on the
Middle East in general and Israel
in particular.
Instead of letting Democratic
congressional leaders he the first
to know of the program and tell
how they felt, the administration
meaning Dulles' State Depart
ment "leaked" it to a news
paper Dec. 28.
Democrats have Indicated since
they consider this an attempt to
buna up public pressure on them
for approval before Eisenhower
ever asked for their views. His
program was a three-in-one pack
age, lie wanted congressional ap
proval lor:
Who'll Get Economic Aid?
Huge economic aid to the Mid
dle East, although who'll get it,
and how and why, is not clear;
gifts of arms to certain Middle
Lastern countries: and use of
American armed forces to- stop
Communist aggression in the
area. .
There followed many days of
testimony by Dulles and other ad
ministration officials before con
gressional committees, publicly
and nelnnd closed doors. In all he
said Dulles followed one consis
tent line: vagueness. It irritated
Democrats.
1'hc House has approved the
program. The Senate, starting de-
nnie on it this week, will prob
ably put some strings on it.
Meanwhile, something else had
been happening.
Israel had ignored the United
Nations' demand that it quit ter
ritory claimed by Egypt, con
tending it first must have guar
antees against Egyptian attack.
The Arab members of the U.N.
were getting set to ask for sanc
tions against Israel for defying the
world organization.
Hasn't Sanctioned Russia
But the U.N. has not even con
sidered sanctions against a big
power Russia which ignored
the U.N. demand that it get out
of Hungary. '
Israel not only Is a friend of the
United States, which helped create
it, but has a lot of friends in this
country, including members of
Congress, who oppose sanctions
against it.
But if the United States refuses
to vole sanctions against Israel,
it would antagonize the Arabs at
the moment the administration is
trying to win them over with Ei
senhower's program.
In the hope of avoiding such a
showdown, Dulles asked Israel to
pull buck its troops. Rut Israel re
fused Dulles just as it had refused
the U.N.
Now the squeeze is on. The
Democratic Policy Committee in
the Senate voted unnnimously
yesterday against sanctions on Is
rael. And Eisenhower's own Re
publican Senate leader, William
Knowlnnd of California, has come
out flatly against sanctions.
Dulles will now have to talk his
way out of this one, or get in
deeper. 1
Hlue Klumlei
Albany Democrat-Herald
The Air Force has crash landed
in full public view because the
master pilot forgot to check his
fuel supply.
Hie fuel in question ts money
and the belly-whopper is the goof
on moving the interceptor base
Irom Portland to near Woodburn.
A year ago the Air Force wept
elegant tears about its plight in
Portland.
The high brnss said these things:
The runways weren't long
enough for razzle dazzle jets. The
surrounding ground area was
heavily populated and In danger.
The held and the approach lanes
were overpopulated by the airlin
ers which share the lield People
objected to the jet whoosh.
So the Air Force look a look at
areas near Tangent. Corvallis and
Sheridan, and then picked the
Woodburn area. Colonels made no-
eo-awnv gestures at farmers oc
cupying the ground, pounded
stakes between the oats, peas,
beans and barley, and mumbled
all sorts of settler noises.
Then, rather than $1? million or
whatever was expected, the Air
Force got nothing. Now Portland
is just line, if the runways are
lenulhened.
If we were one of those Wood-
burn area formers who has pre
pared for the past year to fold up
the family teni. we d still fold it
and march on Washincton. We'd
look for the blue-uniformed racle
eved adventurer who walked into
the Wilbmette valley with a rub
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It's Still Not Clear
V
(HAL BOYLE
DAVID LAWRENCE
If Industry Labor Costs Continue to
Spurt Ahead, Profits Will Be Wiped Out
WASHINGTON-I n d u s t r y is
falling behind in the race with ris
ing labor costs. The rate of profit
after taxes is going down. Figures
are becoming available from more
and more companies, telling what
happened In 1956.
This is what s back of the recent
wave or worry.
While it is gen
erally conceded
that no depres
sion is immed
iately ahead.
there are (indi
cations of con
siderable IB-
xiety that, un
less the trend
is reversed, the
profit margin
will be wiped out
in the next few years for many
companies- in industry after in
dustry. This may become true
especially for those businesses
unable to borrow money for more
up-to-date equipment or unable to
finance such purchases out of ac
cumulated surpluses.
Wage Costa Too High
The story of what has caused
0
D. LAWRENCE
this downward trend In profits can
be given in a single sentence: in
dustry's wage costs have risen by
212 per cent since 1939 and, despite
new machines and improved
methods, productivity per man
hour has increased only 41 per
cent within the same period.
Unless companies can get more
production out of their increased
costs either with or without new
machines the rising labor costs
will inevitably wipe out profits.
Steel 'Profit! Are Reduced
Thus, sales in the U. S. Steel
Corporation in 1956, as compared
with 1955, were up 3.7 per cent
and total outlays, including labor,
rose 4.6 per cent and hence profits
after taxes were down ( per cent.
The Monsanto Chemical Com
pany, one of the biggest in the
chemical field, reported sales up
3.8 per cent, expenses up, 4.8 per
cent and profits after taxes down
B.5 per cent.
In automobiles, the Ford Motor
Company report shows that sals
were down 16.9 per cent but ex
penses were down only 14.5 per
cent, so profits, after taxes, came
down by 45.9 per cent.
DR. WILLIAM BRADY
Lists of Special Foods Are
Misleading, 'For the Birds'
Once when I was an intern one
of my classmates, already in prac
tice, called our professor of sur
gery in consul
tation, and thej
professor invit
ed me to go a-j
long for the
ride, a hundred
miles downslate.
At the farm
house we found
youth withifj'
appenaicius.
I gave the '
anesthetic, my .
classmate as- '"
sisted and the professor operated
in the kitchen, successfully. The
professor's fee was modest, al
though it seemed fabulous to me
m pay as intern was $10 a
month. But what impressed me
most was the professor's instruc
tion to the patient's mother pre
cisely how to prepare chicken jelly
to be fed, in leaspoonful doses,
beginning next morning, gradually
increased from hour to hour . . .
I thought it was wonderful, and
apparently the patient's family
and relatives did too.
Made An Impression
A few years later 1 paid a vist
to a doctor who had been in prac
tice about six years. He took me
along on some of his calls. He,
too, made an impression on his
patients and on me, checking olf
lists of foods each patient might
and might not eat. Everybody
took it all quite 'seriously. Darn
it, right there 1 began to (ear I
would never attain success
nothing published in the past forty
years. I observed that when I was
bellyaching with what the doctor
believed to be diverticulitis some
three or four years ago, had some
doctor suggested a diet I would
have been amused.
As for castric (which means
stomach, not gas) or duodenal
(the dodenum is the 12-lingor
breath portion of intestine just be
yond outlet of stomach! ulcer,
various cut-and-dried diets which
were popular thirty years ago are
almost forgotten today. There'll be
more or less protest from oldtim
ers, I expect, but in my opinion.
lists of foods which the patient
"may eat" or "may not eat" are
for the birds. No doubt many cus
tomers will continue to buy them,
iust as many knuckleheads con
tinue to eschew this and that
wholesome and desirable food lest
it contain "uric acid" or purine,
the nitrogenous material from
which uric acid is derived, such as
red ment, liver, beans, oatmeal.
Within reasonable limitations a
persons with a diverticulum 11 or
an ulcer should eat what he likes.
( Diverticulum is a pouch or
pocket leading off from intestine.
Most persons have one or two,
which only rarely give trouble.
Bees Vibrate 440 Times Per
Second; Some Buzzin; Cousin
kpu) vnnK un Things a col
umnist might never know if he
didn't open his mail:
That the phrase red tape
n.imnn the annovine delays of
officialdom arose in the 19th
Century in Eng
land, where gov
ernment and le
gal documents
were tied with
a pink-red tape.
That Maine is
the only state in
the union which
adjoins only one
other state.
That a honey
bee can vibrate
ill villi 440
times a second, or 26,400 times
a minute . . . and that's some
butzin, cousin!
Black Sea Not Black
That the Black Sea isn't black
. . , it gets its name because of
the dense fogs and violent storms
that darken the area.
That the "monkey wrench" got
HAL BOYLE
BEN MAXWELL
practice. I was right. 1 never did
That. 1 want you all to under
stand clearly, is the reason w-hy
I took up this health column. It
is easy to tell the truth or not to
pretend 1 know when actually 1
don't.
Now comes a promotion man;
ager w-ho asks me to name a book
that gives information on special
diets for persons suffering with
diverticulitis or ulcers.
I was about to reply In my us
ual manner you know me, folks
L when 1 took second look at
the man s letterhead and discov
ered whew, that was a close
shave that he is promotion man-
i aser of a newspaper that prints
my column.
Would Have Been Amused
So 1 donned my Dr. Jekyll dis
tills and replied that 1 know of
'h a book or books, at least
The Burlincton Industries, Inc.,
one of the largest ip the textile
field, had increased sales ol 2d. 5
Der cent and increased expenses
of 24.5 per cent, and profits after
taxes were down 6.7 per cent.
In the publishing business the
storv is the same many maga
zines and newspapers are feeling
the pinch. One publisher of a large
newspaper in the bast points out
that newsprint has eonc up from
$85-a-ton in 1947 to $l30-a-ton today
and that another $4-a-ton increase
is under way,
Meanwhile, wage costs have
risen sharply. The minimum pay
of an experienced newspaper re
porter has gone up from $65 in 1947
to $!z4 a week today. The mechan
ical workers have had boosts of
from 65 per cent to 120 per cent
since 1947. The same Eastern pub
lisher says he is sending $2.40 an
hour, on the average, in straight
time pay for all employees but
that "fringe" benefits add another
51 cents an hour so the real cost
has gone up to $2.91 an hour.
Equipment Costs Soar, Too
Equipment costs have soared,
too. While advertising rates have
been raised, the same publisher
says costs continue to exceed the
added advertising income and
hence further rises in advertising
rates arc going to be needed if any
profits arc to be made. This, how
ever, runs into the possibility of a
diminished quantity of space that
might be bought because the ad
vertisers themselves face in
creased costs all along the line.
It would be thought that in the
field of electrical appliances, so
necessary in modern living, the
story would be different. But it
isn't. Also, the Radio Corporation
of America, with a variety of tele
vision and electronic products,
showed sales up 7.1 per cent last
year and total expenses up 8.2 per
cent, but profits after taxes were
down by 15.8 per cent.
Profits Down In Lumber
In the lumber and wood industry,
earnings, after costs and taxes, per
sales dollar have gone from 8.6
cents in 1947 to 4.3 cents today.
In furniture for the same period,
the earnings figure has come down
from 5.7 per cent to 3.4 cents.
In fabricated metals, it has fallen
from 7 cents to 3.9 cents. In food,
it is now 2.5 cents as compared
with 3.7 cents in 1947. Textile mills
show a drop from 7.3 cents to 3
cents. Printing and publishing
earnings have come down from
5.5 cents to 3.9 cents! Surveys of
supermarkets show a rising trend
in costs and a shrinking margin
of prolils alter taxes.
There are a few industries that
show improvement, but the bulk
are on the minus side. In all in
dustries, small business has been
proportionately hurt even more by
the rising costs.
Yet. in spite of these facts, labor
union bosses feel they must force
the wage scales upward and up
ward in order to keep amhilious
rivals from driving them out of
office. It's a dilemma that, cur
iously enoush. Cenireas has shown
inauguration, although he hung i a strange reluctance to investigate
around Washington waiting for an and expose. But until the people
invitation. The night helore. says ' get all the facts, they cannot de-
nrew. ne ten me capital a orosen i cide wn ,ho tnswer is or wh
and disi usioned man. to return L A , v ,. A .,
to Oregon." j remedy must be applied if a ser-
Upon reading this Mabel McKay i""" "'" " " a'"
wrote the columnist a letter. It
seems he had a couple of facts!
wrong. The truth was that the
McKays were invited. They shared
a pew with the Eisenhowers on
.Ian. 6 and drove with them to the
White House. They left Washington
10 days before the inaugural cere
monies, not the night before. They
left when they had planned to
leave. They did not return to Ore
gon. They began an auto tour of
the South and Mexico. And, she
pointed out. Doug McKay is
neither broken nor disillusioned.
Drew Pearson, as we said be
fore, ts a columnist we somehow
can do without.
History in
The Making
Rocket-firing Thunderbolts of the
U.S. 12th airforce had made their
first attack of the war on Hitler's
private city of
Berchtesgaden ,
mountain h I d e
out in the snow
Capped Ravari-
an Alps.
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A Capital
Journal editori
al, "C o m m u
nists as Army
Officers," had
this to say: "If
Communists are ben maxwell
being, as said, commissioned as
Army officers, how can the policies
of the war and justice departments
be reconciled. Judging by their
past record the Communists are
attempting to bore within the Army
organization as they did in the
merchant marine and into indus
try, as they did before 'Russia
was in the war, and the first we
know these human termites will
be spreading the same chaos that
they have in industry."
Frank G.-. Myers, patriarch of
Salem businessmen and owner ot
the Spa between 1911 and 1944,
had died of a heart ailment.
Myers came to Salem in 1899 and
his first job was washing soda pop
bottles for Gideon Stolz, whose
son, Walter, had established the
Spa in 1891.
Flax experts had told Oregon
fiber growers that they must look
ahead to operation of the industry
on a competitive basis and they
found little hope in support through
a higher tariff or subsidies, even
if such were desired. Oregon
growers were also informed that
the state's production of fiber was
but a small share of world pro
duction, Lone Oak village, only suburban
area outside city limits whose
residents wanted to be annexed to
Salem, was threatened to be the
first to lose a city service privilege.
Flooded basements in the Roscdalc
district were attributed to over-
its nam from Its inventor.
Charles Moncke, a London blacksmith.
That U.S. government publica
tions, which usually bear titles as
long-winded as a marathon run
ner, now include a booklet that
is simply called "Beer" . . .
wonder what in the world it could
be about?
That Arthur Murray ays to
learn to dance the cha-cha all
you have to do is wave goodbjf
without using your hands.
That bees usually fly in a
straighter line than crows ...
so, il you re in a real nurry, you u
get there faster by "making a
beeline" than by going "as the
crow flies."
You Might Be a Poet
That you art a born poet If.
offhand, you can think up words
that rhyme with office ... or
cobra ... or awkward. (All right,
then, take all day.)
That one can get a divorce in
only seven states on the grounds
a mate is a drug addict.
That "dungarees comes from
the Indian word, dungri, the name
of a Bombay suburb where a
coarse blue cotton cloth was first
manufactured.
That the Danish flag, which has
a large white cross on a red field,
is the oldest unchanged national
flag in existence ... it originated
in the 13th Century.
That the headline writer who
wrote "alcohol plant in Indiana
explodes" missed a better one:
"Boom! H1C!"
One Record, One Child
That every time pop singer Te
resa Brewer comes out with a
million-seller hit record she also
has had a child . . . her present
boxscore: three hits, three chil
dren. That it was Sophie Tucker, who
observed:
"From birth to age 18, a girl
needs good parents. Fr.om 18 to
35, she needs good looks. From 35
to 55, she needs a good person
ality. From 55 on, she needs good
cash."
OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW
The generation that grew up In
the thirties and are socialistic are
getting old enough to know better.
Sherman County Journal.
SHOULD BE DISCARDED
The proposal to have an ap
pointive officer handle elections
stinks to high heaven and should
be discarded by honest men.
Sherman County Journal.
burdened pipe lines leading from .
Lone Oak village.
A delegation of irrigation users
from West Stayton district had
asked the Marion county court to
provide funds for a water master
since a state authority had mad
determination about water rights
on the North Santiam and Mill
creek.
"We Felt We .
Wanted the Best
We were not disappointed
when we chose
Howell-Edwards
Funeral Home"
And We Agree
Eugene Register Guard
Drew Pearson, the Washington
pundit whose column this news
paper somehow gets along with
out, tells how Douglas McKay did
ln not get invited to the presidential
iropvrlfht. 1S.VI
New York Herald Tribune. Ine.l
Capital AJournal
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Associated Press and The t'nlted
Press. The Associated Preji Is ex
elusive) entitled to the ue for
publication of ill newi dispatches
credited to it or otherwise
credited in this paper and also
news published therein.
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