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NÍWS RAPIR
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EDITORIAL
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ASSOCIATION
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“THE PAPER THAT HAS NO ENEMIES HAS NO FRIENDS.
—George Pii’
The Oregon Pen
The Oregon penitentiary situation blew up in the
faces of the state board of control this week when they
fired Warden O’Malley, without granting him a hearing,
and placed control of the institution in the hands of
Clarence T. Gladden of Tacoma. Conditions have been
explosive for many years and nothing was accomplished
when a couple years ago the board of control placed Mr.
O’Malley in control but tied his hands by keeping the
former warden as prison superintendent where he suc­
cessfully undermined any authority O’Malley may have
been able to get from the state board.
One doesn’t need to live under the prison doors to
Formt Borrico, U. S. Department of Agriculture
know that Warden O’Malley never got a fair deal from
Hey,
Butter—wake up!
the state administration. The most serious criticism of
I
yelled
’timbir'l"
O’Malley is that he should have resigned and upset the
rotten apple-cart of the state administration a long time
ago when he found he was not getting the co-operation
he should have received. O’Malley has instituted many
prison reforms and would have accomplished results had SUPPORT FOR STATE SALARY | in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,
he been given any intelligent support, but how can a man
ADJUSTMENTS
and said “What a big boy am I?’’
do anything when he is not given his choice of assistants, The Journal has been taking a Only Joe is not just holding up his
verbal beating from Sen. Angus Gib­ thumb. He has it poised on the end
and has to take the rotten left-over officials?
son and Sen. John C. F. Merrifield, of his nose and is busily flexing his
The investigating wardens surely erred when they chairman
and member, respectively, fingers in the direction of the State
failed to consult with O’Malley when they made their in­ of the subcommittee on ways and Department. It is his rejoinder to
vestigation, how could they possibly get the true condi­ means. They’ve accused The Journal the victory of Dulles in obtaining con-
tions of what is going on at the state penitentiary without of disregarding “the facts” in sup-! firmation of Bohlen for ambassador
porting wage increases for some 3,300 I to Russia.
getting his side of what was transpiring?
state employes whom we regard as i j An old law forbids a private citizen
It would appear that what Oregon needs most is a underpaid. And they and most other • from conducting negotiations with a
house cleaning from the governor on down, they have members of the subcommittee have i' foreign government, a function re-
finally voted adversely on wage a<l- ' served to the executive branch of the
been in power too long in Oregon until now it is possible justments
by the state government through its Department
to get anything you want at the prison if you know the civil service recommended
of State. McCarthy apparently has
commission.
right people, and have enough money.
Now we’re beginning to get some 'skirted this law by dealing with Greek
private citizens. He is a public of­
Alexander is the custodian of prisoner’s funds and help. The other side of the story is ficial,
so his high-handed
going into the record.
has been for a good many years. It would be well if an The Oregon State Employes asso­ ■ conduct however,
of negotiations in what really
audit of these funds were had to find out just what has ciation has sharply criticized the sub­ are foreign affairs is offensive in the
been done with them. There has been many reports of committee’s action. Its executive | 1 extreme.
improper use of these funds bv Alexander and now is an secretary, Forest V. Stewart, is “ap­ The line of Vergil may apply: “I
fear the Greeks, even when bringing
^ccdlent time to get an accounting. Alexander has many palled by the (committee’s) total dis­ I gifts.
” Greek ship-owners are notori­
regard of salary facts” disclosed in I
times forbidden prisoners the right and their privilege salary surveys.
ously selfish.
They register their
of hiring an attorney—has he forced prisoners to hire State Senators Lamport and Y'eater ships in countries with liberal laws
the “right” attorney before they could get before the of Marion county have gone to bat i (like Panama). They avoid paying
for “the lowly employes” who are taxes in their own country, or else-
parole board?
by higher living costs. 1 ’ where if they are able. One wonders
O'Malley should be given a public hearing so that he They
■ hardest say hit
Oregon has a reputation for j what inducement or threat McCarthy
can tell what has been going on in the state prison man- being
i
“a stingy state.” And other | 1 used to get them to quit hauling
are joining in the criticism freight for the Communists. Maybe
agement. He would be able to bring to light the activities legislators
1
of
the
ways
anti means subcommittee it was their way of responding to
of Alexander and any others who created confusion
for "battering down” the pay of moves of our government to recover
throughout the prison.
surplus ships said to have been bought
"small fry” employes.
Editorial Comments
MILL CITY MEAT MARKET
Quality Meats and Groceries
FOOD LOCKERS
«
FROZEN FOODS
Administrator’s Sale
I WILL SELL AT PRIVATE SALE
Subject to approval of the
Marion County Court, the
John Stamos Farm
of IGO Acres
Located three miles West of Mill City,
in Marion County. Oregon
INSPECTION MAY BE MADE AT ANY TIME
I wish to sell this farm at an early date, in order to
close the Estate of said John Stamos.
I
!
D. B. Hill, Administrator
a day. The Democrats who took it on
the chin for their mountains of rotting
potatoes are having their day . .
watching the Republicans wade
through their sea of butter.
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NAM Baloney:
Testifying before the senate bank­
(Heard over KPOJ, Portland, at 10:15
ing committee recently, the president
p.m., Monday through Friday)
of the National Association of Manu­
facturers, Charles Sligh, again de­
Park Benches for Sale:
The nation’s rent control law expires clared in favor of dumping the lion’s
the last of April unless Congress share of the tax burden on the lower-
takes action . . . and there is no indi­ income groups. Generally referred to
cation of any such action at this time. as an alleged method of equalizing the
The housing shortage, which has j tax load, Sligh dressed it up by' calling
plagued this nation for years, still ' it “a uniform rate excise levy on
exists in thousands of communities, everything but food.” The baloney
placing a premium on substandard liv­ was so thinly sliced that even Sen
ing quarters. Thirty four million peo­ Homer Capehart (R., Ind.) recognized
as a national sales tax.
ple live under rent control at the pres­
ent time; the housing situation is so
acute that almost 2 million people are
now living in trailers—some by choice, i
many by ^necessity.
Rents are ex­
pected to jump after April 30 unless
congress acts. For example, the Cin­
cinnati Post predicts that rent in­
creases of 50 to 100 percent may be
expected there when controls expire.
Real estate promoters seem to feel '
that tenants are expendable where
profits are concerned.
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Now It’s Butter:
Silice he reversed himself on price i
supports, Secretary of Agriculture
Benson now owns more than 100 mil­
lion pounds of butter and is still buy­
YOUR
ing it at the rate of 2 million pounds |
FRANK
EDWARDS
Says:
MILL CITY. OREGON
DON PETERSON. Publisher
PUBLISHERS
April 2. 1953
Heads of state departments are also illegally by aliens.
Wisconsin’s Joe will strut for a day,
taking their wage problems to ways
and means.
They charge that low j 1 gloating over his boxing the State
salaries for certain types (not all) Department. His vaunted hostility to
employes make it impossible for them 1 i Communists is quite demagogic—he
to compete for technical help and to welcomed their votes in 1946 when he
got enough of them to defeat Bob La-
get and keep competent people.
And Governor Patterson indicates Follette. Joe had better watch his
If Eisenhower and
he will step into the controversy with step, however.
a recommendation for re-examination Dulles really get mad they may turn
to and give him a trouncing.—From I
of certain salary classifications.
Apparently they, like The Journal The Oregon Statesman.
and unlike the Gibson subcommittee,
are impressed by current comparative DID YOl GET YOl R FREE RIDE
salary studies.
ON A RAILROAD?
They are not convinced that the
In advertisements in the magazines
Gibson subcommittee is the only group and newspapers, the railroads are
with "the facts,” as it maintains.
| stressing that their roads are built
They also must have come to the i and maintained “without cost to the
conclusion that the Gibson subcommit­ 1 taxpayers.”
This, of course, is a
tees’ approval of one biennial, instead j back-handed slap at the trucking in­
of two annual, across-the-board merit dustry because the rails are also quick
raises affecting some 70 percent of to point out that highways are paid
all Oregon workers does nothing to for by public funds and that the trucks
alleviate existing inequities in pay are "getting a free ride” at the ex­
scales. On the contrary, this action pense of the taxpayers.
actually accentuates inequities.
The facts are that the trucking in­
We're glad to have such good com­
dustry
pays its fair share of highway
pany in the fight for salary justice
for state employes. We’re glad to be costs and, in Oregon, pays more than
on the side of the state police, the its share. Oregon truck taxes are
low-pay clerical workers, the hospital higher than in any other state of the
union.
| aides and prison guards, the engineers
What the railroads don’t talk about
1 and auditors and appraisers and the
are those fat and fast tax write-offs
institution employes who still work
which they have been getting from
12 hours a day. YVe're still for them.
Senator Gibson and friends to the con­ the Office of Defense Mobilization,
j The latest batch of tax favors to the
trary notwithstanding.
And you want to know something? railroads totalled more than »56.500,-
1000 for five railroads. Southern Pa­
| We’ll bet the majority of the legis-
l lature and the people of Oregon are | cific got two certificates to write-off
I for them. too. From Oregon Journal. half of »26.900.000; Chicago and
Northwestern more than half of »21,-
000,000; Northern Pacific more than.
WHAT \ Bit. BOY IS JOE
Sen. Joe McCarthy's announcement
of effecting a direct agreement with
Greek ship-owners not to haul goods
to or from Communist ports looks
very much like a Little Jack Horner
\ stunt. Remember Jack, who “stuck
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half of »6,000,000; Bangor aid Aroo-
stock more than half of »3,000,000.
At whose expense are the railroads ,
granted these rapid tax amortiza-j
tions? At the expense of the rest of,
the taxpayers, of course.
At least the public gets to ride on 1
the highways which the railroads 1
claim are being subsidized for the
benefit of the trucks.
But is the i
public going to get any free railroad I
rides in return for the tax favors i
given to the railroads?
There’s a |
question you might put to the next I
railroad man who yammers about a 1
“free ride for trucks.” — From the
Oregon Teamster.
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