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TEW MrWOTO (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, Febnxtrr 24, 1953 High Fees -'Declared Charged! To Liquor Licenses Railroads Point To Number of Industries Brought To State at Hearing on Senate Bill Salem U.R) The railroads have brought 764 new industries to Oregon by means of 33,000,000 promotion campaign Frank C. McCullock, Portland attorney, representing the Ore gon Railroad Association, told the Senate Committee on Com merce and Utilities headed by Sen. Lee Ohmart late yesterday, He made the observations in arguing against Senate bill 121 favored by truck and barge line operators, which would give the public utilities commissioner control over reductions as well as increases by intrastate trans portation rates for all types of operators. Assured of Minimum Rates Earlier, barge and truck line representatives had . presented their case in favor of the bill at the hearing, which was a con tinuation of one started last week. . McCulloch told the committee the railroads would not have been able to bring in many of the small industries if it had hot had the right to assure them of attractive minimum rates. He said under terms of Senate bill 12Lsuch a quoted minimum rate 3 could be held .up as much as 11 months if the PUC had power to suspend reduced as well as in- Repair, Improvement ! under way at mm .Prospect A new boiler and smokestack are being . installed at the Ross Lumber company mill here this week. The repair and rebuilding work also in cludes general improvements about the mill for greater safety, better production and higher grades of lumber, a company spokesman said. It is expected that mill work will resume about the first of March. Almost the" entire crew at the mill was kept at work as a repair crew. creased rates until a hearing be- bore the PUC. Favors Control Capt. Homer T. Shaver of Portland, secretary and general manager of the Shaver Trans portation Company and presi dent of Tidewater-Shaver Barge Lines, said he favored control at the bottom as well as the top which would be equally just , to barge and truck lines, and the railroads. He said he felt no mode of carrier should have a legislated advantage over an other, and he favors giving up the advantage barge lines now enjoy in interstate commerce because their bulk cargoes like petroleum and grain are ex empted from ICC regulations. Harry C. Burnett of The Dalles, traffic manager for the Inland Navigation Company, read a statement by Capt. A Lepaluto, general manager of that barge line, favoring SB 120 on grounds that if the railroads are allowed uncontrolled mini mum rates, they could lower rates until they eliminated com petition, then immediately in crease them higher than ever. To this, Roy Shields of Port land, also representing the Ore gon Railroad Association, re plied that the ICC already has control over intrastate as well as interstate transportation rate minimums, in that a railroad is not allowed to operate any line, Pro Tern Judges Upheld by Thornton Salem (U.R) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton ruled yesterday that the law providing for appointment of pro tem cir cuit judges by the State Su preme Court was assumed to be constitutional. , The attorney general, as a re sult of the ruling, ordered the state to make payments for such temporary judges. within or between states, with out making a profit. Clair L. Brown of Salem, president of the Oregon Truck ing Association, said the truck ers also favor PUC control over reductions as well as increases in transportation rates. A Nichol's Worth of Comment On This and That By HARMAN W. NICHOLS United PreM Feature Writer harman Nichols Washington (U.R) Those do-it-vourself euvs might be handy around the ranch. But when it comes to fixing up their own show window some of 'em ought to take some more les sons. Like when they, were fix ing up the sur facers, the disc sanders, and true turn ing lathes for the ninth annual Do-It-Yourself show at. the Ar mory here. There was this big liunk : of a man. Obviously," no fixer of things busted around the house and certainly not one with ideas about improving what was all right in the first place. George, his first name was. He was supposed to get a buzz saw working. The performance was to open in a day or so and things at the so-called million dollar home show were in the usual pre-opening hubbub. Saw Won't Buzz . George had fetched all of his gear. He had cables, tape, plug- ins, about everything to make a good saw buzz. But she would not buzz. ' He and I got to buzzing about buzz saws. 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But it seemed to me that the big lad who was fixing things up for the fixers had overlooked one thing. The little wire that goes into the plug to start the motor running. George blushed a little. Plug ged her in. Still . nothing hap pened. . Amateur me. "Maybe the fuse?" It was.- That fixed, the thing started to hum. Can't say I start ed the home show, but I gave it a leg up. George likely, with overtime, would have found his way around without me, but I'm the helping kind. Home On Display The do-it-yourself part of the show has about everything a handy man around the house would want. Power saws, hand saws, saws that you start with your . foot. Cross-cuts. Also a right-hand miter cut, and a lit tle dandy that combines "the two Operations of mitering and beveling.". This" was all Latin to me. But I learned, that the "lap joint," and - the "lock joint, and any other common variety of joints, can be made with cabinet-maker precision. -The do-it-yourself gadgets are only part of the show. Homes are the main thing. A rambler was set up inside the massive Armory in - a couple of days. Outdoors, .the rambler and its lot would cost $14,950, ready to live in and grow flowers around. It cost the building folks $9,- 000, including overtime, to put it up under a roof where it never will be slept in. More than once, that is. After a day of looking at saws and the world's- biggest trailer home, I sneaked me a nap -oil one - of those foam cushion beds'tethe. home of tomorrow. Hear Payette Students Protest To Council Payette' (U.R) Students of Payette high school, who recent ly voted to strike the word "com rade" 1 from their school song, have now petitioned the city council to remove the word "white" from one of the city's ordinances. The new protest is over an ordinance which states that the city's police chief "shall be- a white citizen." The students would amend this to require the chief to be a citizen only. City councilmen tabled a pe tition signed by 135 of the school's . 350 - odd ; students Wednesday. They said they would-take the matter up at the. next regular session of the council which' is scheduled for March 7.'" Paid Commission ing Turned Into Side Issue Salem flj.R) The merits of two bills for a full-time paid liquor commission or admin istration turned into a side is sue at a hearing here last night when a witness said he had heard reports of Portland at torneys s charging exhoribitant fees to obtain dispensers' licen ses. "- . Sen. Warren Gill (R-Lebanon) demanded that G. M. Fox, oper ator of the Brooklyn diner in Portland, be placed under oath and made to repeat his state ments made before the. Senate Committee . on Alcoholic ,traff ic. Unable To Supply Names Testifying under oath and un der questioning by ; Gill, Fox was unable to supply names of either licensees or attorneys that had engaged in the alleged lic ense buying. Gill, and subsequent witness es, said they had heard no evi dence to support the charges and were certain such a practice did not exist but was a matter of rumor and hearsay. The hearing was called on two bills before the Legislature, one to create a full-time paid posi tion of liquor administrator ap pointed by the governor and the other to replace the present un paid commission with a paid, three-man commission serving full time. Greatest Efficiency Sen. Robert Holmes (D-Gear- hart), sponsored the bill for a single administrator as the stronger of the two proposals and one leading to the greatest efficiency. Sen. Joseph Carson (D-Portland), was the sponsor of the bill for a paid, three-man commission. Carson said there was too much "insulation" of the present commission from the public with which it dealt Gene Rossman of the Oregon Licensed Beverage association also spoke for the Carson bill He said it would provide, a bet ter system of checks and bal ances. Opponents, included Rep. Rob ert Elf strom (R-Salem), a form er chairman of the State Liquor commission; J. L. Bassett. of the Oregon Dispensers association, and Frank Van Dyke, Medford, member of the board of govern ors of the Oregon State bar. Change Said Unjustified Van Dyke said there had been no conduct of the present sys tem of liquor administration in Oregon that' would justify mak ing a change. He said other states with paid commissions had had great difficulty with liquor affairs and had held studies, sur veys and investigations. ' Elf strom pointed out that while Oregon's liquor sales am ount to $15,000,000 less than those in Washington where there is a paid commission, Oregon's net profits ' are two per cent greater than those in Washing ton. He said Oregon's unpaid commissions bring into state ser vice many able men and women who would not be available as paid employees of the state. MAN BITES DOG Manila U.R) Pedro Taklz, 17. made the front pages of Manila papers today by biting a dog. Reports said Taklz seized the dog which bit him two days ago, and sank his teeth into the animal's neck "until it lied shrieking with pain' Britain Cracks Down On Growing Inflation London (U.R) Britain, in a crackdown on growing inflation, raised the interest rate on bor rowed money today to the high est level since the world depression. Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler jumped the Bank of England bank rate, key to Brit ish borrowing, from 3 per cent to AV2 per cent. The move was expected to at tract more dollars into Britain, to curb inflation at home and to strengthen the British pound sterling abroad. . The move .was interpreted by Stock Exchange traders as evi dence of a sounder economy, and heavy buying followed. JbI COOKIES OR CANDIES The family will have difficulty in deciding when these special treats are served. These new Sweet Wheat Bars are crunchy like candy, made with instant cooking wheat cereal, the whole wheat kind. Here's the recipe which makes a pan 7xlOVxlV2 inches: 2 cups Carnation Instant Wheat " 1 cup sifted, firmly packed brown sugar ' 1 teaspoon baking powder 'Vi cup melted butter Vi cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces , Combine Carnation Instant Wheat, brown sugar and baking powder together in bowl. Add melted butter and chocolate pieces. Mix well. Spoon into a buttered 7'.'xlOV4"xlVfc"- pan. Bake in moderate oven (375F) about 12 to 15 minutes until light and golden brown. 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