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.
"See," he said, "she .seems to
be all tuned up. This thing can
save a man a lot of money if he
knows his tools. But she won't
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her insides."
The innards did, indeed, look
fine. All oiled up and all wires
connected. All except one. I'm
not much of a builder of homes
or fixer of anything connected
with same. 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.
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DEER STARVING
Baker (U.R) Deer in Eaele
valley are starving and help in
feeding them is being sought,
sportsmen here said today. A
representative from the valley,
attending a meeting of the Baker
county sportsmen's club, said the
starving deer were becoming a
menace to orchardists. Others
are dying for lack of feed, , he
said. - A collection of $82 was
taken on the spot to help out.
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