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PAGE FOUR NEWS BEHIND Salem News THE NEWS iNotes Of Interest (By Paul Malton) Salem, E. L. Carney is a (Distributed by King Features Synffl- surgical, patient in the Levering hos- Reproduction iii whole or, ID prt ital Hannibal, where she is re- forbidden.) Ported as getting along as well as could jbe expected. Mr. and Mrs.

John Thompson and WASHINGTON--'TIS BEING AD- dau hter and granddaughter, Mil- VERTISED as a famous victory at waukee wis wer recent guests at Paris. The accounts from there were home of their couslns Mr and headed: "Molotov fiinally A MrS Pred Brown weighing of the event since then Mr and Mrs Charles Brown enter- expert-and even some official news tamed at a dlnner at thelr home Sat i accountants--has developed wonder if Urday Mr and Mrs Fred Brow n. near it was victory and how much Mnlntnv Salem and Mrs Carrf Synder of East; Rainbow's End For British Mother Of Quads FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1946 Freihig Orange, N. J. Mrs.

Fred Brown and yielded. In the first place China was Mrs Synder were sch o1 mates the made a sponsonng nation for the big Acadamy more than 40 i peace conference of twenty-one na- i yearS ag and has been 40 vears Smce the tw have seen each other Mrs Synder was lorm erly Miss Carrie TM Mt Pleasant mention this point. Nothing was said I and Mrs Ernest Mmgus and son about China. Earlipr hnth Messrs. Matt IU-.

spent several days Molotov did not yield on this The leading dispatches from the conference the day after neglected to Byrnes and Bevin contended the omis- th Past week wlth their Blends, Mr. sion of our friend in the Orient as and Mrs red Combs, sponsor would be an insult to her. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Molotov claimed China was not mriu- daughter, Mrs.

Virginia ential in the defeat of the nations for Corpus Christi, Texas, soldier which treaties were being written in Paris--Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Church and Metzger of I recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Elliott.

Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hannah and Mr. A sa wmch began in England when a British girl gave birth to quadruplets by an American ended happily Pittsburgh. as William Thompson, the father, slipped a on of Norah Carpenter, the mother, of his children.

Magistrate Frank T. Halloran, life-long the former a secret ceremony as best man Attornev Samuel Sound photo.) AACLUJ.UU.I itllU ivir Finland and Italy-nnd therefore she I and Mrs. Robert Hunting spent the a I-- HiC was not entitled to be a sponsor. 4th in Ames and from there jihe Auto races in Des Moines. BACKSTAGE IN IOWA POLITICS chairman.

1 Other officers: of Cedar Rapids, John E. chief usher; Mrs. days with her daughter, Mrs. Ernie Greenlee Hester and family in Burlington. to ENTITLED Mr.

and Mrs. Boyd Brown and son Des Moines (IDPA) iiro mamV, 1 ivi( ll nei U-U-fAJ i AI ii tuiu a sponsor as a big five member Charles have returned from a trio t- rn Iowa cities and i Mae A. Lynch, state representative (from Pocahontas. temporary secretary; Henry Hook of Mason City, reading and a participant in the war. Technically she may not have used any troops in the five countries mentioned i nuiic-i.

anc but the United States did not use made a trip to Windsor Canada many either in Finland (with whom Mrs. Dick Bice and two sons Donnie TffO timvci ji4- i i I South Whitney, and also visited with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cook and family at Yipsilanti, I j. Ct I JC- tiUH to towns would get "more than a dollar secretar and Carroll Switzer of Des and also more were never at war), and not many in the Balkajis, although the Mamie Bell of Ottumwa, Russians used plenty of our equipment.

Next day France worded the invi- and Johnny, Mt. Pleasant and Mrs. per capita" if the disputed extra-cent gasoline tax were distributed now. Moines. sergeant-at-arms.

REPUBLICANS Republicans are anxious tation more peacefully, and a move Elliott recently spent several days at the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. ment to salve China with the chair manship upon the second day of tha meeting, was attempted, but Molotov insisted upon China's omission as a sponsor pleading this was provided in the Potsdam agreement, which was never been enforced economically at any rate.

THEN THE BIG FOUR CONFERENCE decided to call the twenty-one nations to approve apparently the treaties they are making for those five. Mr. and Mrs. Earnest E. Lamb and sons, Earnest Jr.

and Orville of Rock Island, 111., spent Saturday night and Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs H. A. Kester. Mrs.

Eva Pidgeon was hostess to the members of the Loyalty Sunday School class of the Methodist church at their regular meeting held in the church, Tuesday afternoon. 16 members and' visitors were present. Following the regular meeting, the hostess took the group to the C. H. and served re- Mt.

Pleasant, with a 1940 population of 4,610, therefore would get more than $4,600. The state gas tax was increased from 3 to 4 cents a gallon, effectiwe July 1 1945. The extra cent was earmarked three- John M. Grimes, state treasurer esti-1 Republlcans are anxious for the mates. Democrats to take hold of the sales tax on food, clothing and medicine in the first place.

It was attacked repeatedly by the G. O. P. as a tax on the necessities of life, but neither Democrats nor Republicans did anything about it Whe hey had the chance Now the fifths for counties for secondary road si ms are reversed: the G. O.

P. work, and two fifths to fflCe the Dem attacking the This was regarded as a victory for our freshl of ice cream and cake. Mr. Byrnes who wanted such a conference. But Molotov wanted to restrict the rules of the conference, Mr.

and Mrs. Duahe Wilkerson and Mr. and Mrs. Gary Jamieson of Montezuma, Iowa spent the week end at ui vuuieience, me weeK end at which naturally had no rules, never the Orval Morrison home. Mrs.

Wil- having been in assemblage. He sue- kers was formerly Miss Mary Lousie ceeded in requiring that each treaty Morrison A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert McDorman at the Memorial hospital Tuesday morning, away shortly after birth. The little one had been named Charles Richard interment was in the East cemetery Mrs.

Rex Morris of Mt. Pleasant car- go to committee made up of the leading participants in the war on that country, (which is all right), but he said the committee must make decisions only by a two-thirds majority (which is not all right) The committees apparently had no power to make two fifths to cities and towns for streets. In one year, the "extra cent" fund has built up to $4.710,878, Grimes reported. That is $1,884,352 to cities and $2,826,526 to counties. DISTRIBUTION Constitutionality of the new tax is under court test.

It was ruled legal by the district court at Iowa City. Ic now has been argued before the state supreme court, and decision is expected soon. If the supreme court rules the extra tax constitutional, first distribution of funds to cities and counties will be substantial. From then on, revenues distributed monthly, Grimes (tax. A key difficulty of the issue is one of administration.

At first glance, grocery stores would just quit collecting sales tax. But they also sell brooms and weed killers. Drug stores are the same way. And is tooth paste a medicine? The questions are many. Mr, and Mrs.

Roy Connolley of Wa- pello spenfT- Friday evening with and Mrs. Roy Gerber and daughters. Miss Doris and Ruth McNeeley or Burlington spent July 4 at the Carrie McNeeley and Mr. and Mrs. Jack McNeeley homes.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lite of Burlington were visiting relatives here Monday 'evening. Darlyne Parsons is spending her vacation with her brother, Clayton Parsons and family and friends. Mrs.

Lyle Jones is in Rochester Minnesota, staying with her mother- in-law who is ill at the hospital. W. C. Gregg spent Monday and Tuesday in Wever and Ft. Madison.

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Williams, Mrs Raymond Jackson and Marva Thorn- OKAY, VOU WIN NOW TELL WE HOW YOU KNEW WWICH GUY EATS PETfeR PAN A Peter Pan BREAD MAKSS TASTIER MEALS burg were shopping in Burlington Olds Olds--Mrs. Anna Miller left Monday for Billings, to visit at the home of her daughter, Mrs. S.

W. Tip- whole yet did not. It could not change a treaty or no public suggestion was made that it could, it was merely called to approve. Certainly its committees could not do anything it could not do. Yet Russia imposed a two-thirds majority upon decisions of committees, with majority decisions among the twenty-one.

What this will do, I have not found an authority to explain. A two-thirds majority without authority can only be a two-thirds majority without power-except to nullify any action. ACTUALLY THE BIG COUNCIL of nations was insisted upon by Byrnes to let the smaller nations participate in the decision of the peace. His victory in this respect was far from clearcut. Will the small nations be satisfied? The question cannot be answered until you find out what the two-thirds- ma- jority-rule-m-committees-only, puvvci LU matte UA ivib.

rMcuSant any decisions. At least the conference ried out a surprise on her sister Miss Goldle Thompson, Sunday. i Thompson, a telephone opeiator, was met by her nephew, Charles Thompson when leaving her work Sunday morning and taken to her home, where she was met by her brothers and sister and their families who had come with filled baskets to spend the day with her in honor of her birthday. Those present were Mr. nd Mr-TReEx Morris Mr.

and Mrs. Albert Almond, and Mrs. Charles Thompson, all of Mt Pleasant, Mr. and Mrs. W.

A. Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. Milo Thompson Miss Eleanor Thompson, Mr. and Mrs Richard Thompson and Charlotte Jean of Salem.

Gordon Thompson and a friend from Rock Island, 111., spen the 4th with Gordon's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A Thompson. smaller nations less and less important and more and more restricted and at Paris was tha we mean to SuSa drew nference Obviously I got Russiji into another half-world Russia drew her peace in such a way conference- (the twenty-one partici LlVe nabons changin 1s tons, It as taken Prancisco Conference. some a i This is a a which declared war at i and W6re not -tuany many foims jCipants) for better or worse My personal opinion is Mr Byrnes Pr Ceeding thfe theorj Her two- this whole matter, namel hi into na ion nations do, but we do care.

a namel thirds formula may work like her veto sumption that we must get coun- agreement on everything s--to prevent action or change of nearly anything 0 date. Certainly on committees if limited participation working under such a rule, the pretense of a cooperative world peace will be difficult to maintain. What it looks like to me is that Russia has considerably but vet indefinably stultified the Byrnes inspired conference first by excluding China as a sponsor and secondly by a fool-rule she can use ns a veto on action. This would deny the existence of a victory for anyone except Russia in her purpose to get the world to accept peace treaties which (except for Italy) she is largely imposing The prace then depends actually upon the terms of the treaties themselves, in Finland, Bulgaria, Rumania Hungary these are being enforced imposed by Russia--in Italy by us. THE ILLUSION of a cooperative world peace 15 thereby becoming more elusive, the participation by the lose his case.

I think he could make a better case to the small nations and world opinion if he dropped that theory. I not think the world especially must have Russia, that we Britain or China, must have her or of the smaller nations. I would I make my own peace with my friends- and maintain it. will be said. CLIMBING Iowa's gas tax receipts, which go to road work, have climbed steadily.

The tax took effect May 1, 1925, at 2 cents a gallon. Only $3,215,405 was collected in 1925. The rate was boosted to 3 cents in 1927. Revenues gained steadily, to i prewar 1941 peak of $18,200,191. The year 1945 produced $19,622,625.

and 1946 has given the state its first" three-million-dollar month, when 144,884 was collected in May. At 15 miles to the gallon, that is more than one billion miles of driving for lowans in month. KNOW YOUR, STATE Iowa stands first among the states in rural telephones used, with 80 per cent of theVfarms served. Iowa ranks third in urban residential phone use, seventh business use of phones. VETS BONUS Democrats gather in Des Moines pett.

Mr. and Mrs. Horace Crawford and daughter, Rodney, of Monday. Wanda Welch left Saturday for a trip in the South. She will be gone about two weeks.

She will visit in Texas and New Mexico. the navy of Baltimore, are visiting at the Sam J. Miller and Elsie Crawford homes. Don Huston returned home this week from the navy. He has received his discharge.

He has served in the south Pacific. Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Ostlx-rg and daughters of Council Bluffs, are Visiting at the Anna Ostberg and Lydia Miller homes. Mr.

and Mrs. Lester Schivler and family of Des Moines have moved into the teachers house. Mr. Schivler the new coach in the high school. JAIL HONEYMOON Vancouver, Wash.

(INS)--Walter Browning, 28-year-old soldier, from Coos Bay spent his "honeymoon" In jail. They let him out 'a few minutes while Judge Charles W. Hall officiated at his wedding to 21-year-old Phyllis Then the bridegroom was- whisked back to jail to await trial on a car theft charge. ZOO MONKEYSHINES Pittsburg (INS)--There'll be rnon- keyshines aplenty in Pittsburg from now on Fifty Rhesus monkeys recently arrive at the Highland Park. Zoo from their native India and are falling right into the swing of things at their hew home.

is spent LOWELL Lowell, and Mrs. John Anderson and daughter, Sandra Sunday at the Peola Conor Mrs. Rex Dietrick and children are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Bird who live near Cantnl.

Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Parsons and in. iviunies -D -i -Monday night for district caucuses to a JP ent Sunda with Mr. and Mrs.

narno tvi i Hael. name the state central committee in! advance of the state convention Tuesday. With no ticket vacancies to fill, main convention business will be platform writing. It will be the platform on which Frank Miles will seek to unseat Gov. Robert D.

Blue in November. According to insiders, you can look "or these platform planks to be discussed, among others: 1. Giving the ballot to 18-year- olds. 2. Repeal of sales tax on food, clothing and medicine.

3. A law to make parents of juvenile delinquents legally responsible under criminal statutes. 4. Increased state support to schools. 5- A veteran's bonus, with amount to be determined later OFFICERS Sewell E.

Allen of Onawa, candidate for lieutenant governor, will be keynoter and temporary chairman. Miles will speak Tuesday afternoon, and named permanent Mr. and Mrs. Ott Gregg and daughter Carolyn of Wever, Caroline Scholz and Glenn Gregg of Ft. Madison spenc Friday evening at the Roy Gerber home.

Mr. and Mrs. Chester Welch, were visiting friends and relatives in Lowell recently. Mr. and Mrs.

Newell DeLang and daughter of Burlington spent several days at the Charles Thornburg home. Mrs. Port Crosley is spending several TRANSPORT CONVERSION Chicago (INS) --Substitution of buses or trackless trolleys for streetcars is being undertaken or considered in ai increasing number of S. cities to speed traffic flow and reduce noise the American Municipal Association disclosed today. Increased traffic congestion plus removal of wartime mariu facturing restrictions is giving impetus to substitution of busses and trolley coaches for street cars.

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Breitenbach Iowa Exclusive Agent V. F. W. Regular Meetings 1st Thursday of month 8 P. M.

3rd Thursday of month 8 P. M. Until further notice, meetings at over Mt. Pleasant Oil Co Overseas Veterans Welcome. Post 2561 V.

F. w. maintains a service of- tice and service officer at its post rooms on the south side of square. On duty from a 5 1 0 9 each Saturday phone Ihis service is free to any veteran. will be HURSDAY, JULY 18 Scouts will collect in Farmers may leave paper at Manly Frazer's home anytime.

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