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Hey I) SfaTttissn, Qrt Sat.) Nov. 26, '60 GRIN AND BEAR It By Lichty From I he Va Statesman News Service- -i .1 333IDS Fa tor Sways Us; No Fear Shall Atce-Frem First Statesman, March 2. 1151 (Cenfinued from Page 1) i Water Covers Grocery Floor at Lyons CHARLES A. PRAGUE, Editor A Publisher WENDELL WEBB, Managing Editor i '-'--A 1 far with this'take-time-io- 'I think Doc is going too talk-to-the-patient' idea! mentioning the bill Flank Attack on U.N. The flank financial assault on' the United Nations by Russia and eight satellites could have more far-reaching effect than might immediately be apparent.

And it could be that Russia's refusal to pay any of the cost of what it terms "dirty" intervention in the Congo had just that far-reaching effect in mind; wrecking the U.N. completely. Members' of the United Nations are committed by Charter to pay a proportionate share of U.N. costs. Also by Charter, they are committed to recognizing the rule of the majority.

So what happens when the majority agrees to assume the Congo burden but a few don't like, it and-won't help pay for it? In the eyes of the' world they aren't withdrawing from the United Nations. They are merely boy-, potting it financially to get their point: across. And. the rest of the nations either, have to pungle up a disproportionate Share "to make up the deficit or abandon Ihe programs they deem necessary to maintain world peace. I The Russian maneuver surely is one of undercutting the whole U.N.

and still leave the Reds free to prate their propaganda line of world cooperation. It is to wonder to what avenue they'll move next to thwart any les-, sening tensions. Perhaps they'll deduct their proportionate share of Dag Ham-i merskjold's pay, since they failed to have him ousted at the last so-called "summit" when Khrushchev gave his buffoon-ish performance in New York. The masters of the art of turmoil never quit. Kennedy Urn LYONS A foot of watar To Protect Berlin Good Ca rs in Limbo The DeSoto was quite an honored name in the automotive industry for better than three decades, but for reasons which may never be fully apparent it is now a gone goose.

It was brought out by the Chrysler Corporation in 1928, with an initial production of nearly 200 cars a tlay. That's about all that were produced in an entire week this year when sales comprised less than 1 per cent of the American car market. This year they have been only one-third of one per cent. So the superficial reason for the discontinuance is obvious. The reasons behind the loss of sales are more obscure, but so far as Chrysler Corporation is concerned apparently are based on the resurgence of the Dodge, just below it in price and quality, and the continued ascendancy of the Buick and Oldsmobile, which outranked it.

Then there are "compacts," and also the "middle-price" field was crowded by other makes, too. The DeSoto (or the second edition of it the first came out in 1913) did a lot better than most of the other 40 makes which came on the market since 1928. In that same year there appeared the Red Bug, Reiland Bee, Ruxton, Clarkspeed, O'Connell, Golden State and Haynes-Anderson. Then there were such cars as the Terraplane (1932), the Stout (1935), the Kaiser and Frazer (1946), the Henry J. (1950).

"A few cars introduced in the DeSoto era still survive, including the 3rd edition of the Mercury (1938), the 4th edition of the Lincoln (1948), and the 3rd edition of the Rambler (1950), plus those of more recent vintage still in the limelight. The automotive division of the Goodyear Rubber Company lists more than 2100 American-made cars. The survivors could be counted on your fingers without using them more than twice. It is a rugged car business. The DeSoto was a good automobile even if it now becomes history.

There have been many fine vehicles fall by the wayside through competitive marketing rather than any fault of their. own. covered tha floor of Thiol's Grocery, ha ro Thursday afternoon. A largo portion of th business district and considerable amount of residential area was inundated after heavy rain. Water in the city ranged up to 18 inches deep! Several cars war stalled in the deluge, which was mostly drainage from nearby hills.

(Statesman photo by Loyd Sidweli) Area Mops Up Valley Obituaries After Big Flood Mush Bowl The Western Big Five are grumbling in i their beards because Minnesota accepted with evident reluctance the invitation to- play in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. To them such a bid amounts to a command performance and they didn't appreciate the fact that Minnesota's acceptance was a concession, that the university authorities frown on post-season games. Minnesota was one of the Big Ten that voted against renewing a contract for the Rose Bowl appearance. A Minnesota is right. The football season ought to wind up by Thanksgivings time.

Dragging it on for a select of schools prolongs the labor and strain of, the players and wastes energies of the Larry Smyth Larry Smyth, long time political reporter for the Oregon Journal, spent so much time in Salem covering the attending political conclaves that he was a familiar figure here. He was more than a familiar figure he was was to break 'the power of the political Since it thrived on the caucus-conven tion system, the way to strip ft of power was by adoption ol the direct primary for nominating candidates for office. This proved effective. Political boss-ism was pretty well licked except for the Urge cities. But breaking the grip of the party organisation wrecked party discipline.

When anyone could become a candidate for office and run on his own, with as good a chance at success as the next man, there was no way of holding a party in line either for candidates or for political prin? ciples, save in a broad way. The consequence has been that the two big political parties have become amorphous bodies, their political principles no longer sharply defined. The politician follows the rule of "every man for himself and devil take the hindmost." This lack of discipline was long evident in the Republican party, as the "standpatters" and the "insurgents" battled for mastery. It- haunts the Democrats now. At the last session of the Congress the liberals became quite critical of the entrenched leadership Johnson and Raybum) for not driving through tha liberal legislation they wanted.

Enough Southern stalwarts joined with Republicans ta stall an most of the legislation demanded by the liberals. A similar combination will prevent the liberal Democrats in Oregon from organizing tha Senate. Sen. Harry i i claims victory for the post of President, with pledges from seven Democrats and all 10 of the Republican members. This leaves Sen.

Alfred Corbett with 13 Democratic votes, a majority of his party but short of a majority of the full membership. Sen. Straulj, state chairman, wants the Democratic bloc to select the president, declaring: "Only by the majority party exercising this responsibility for organizing the Senate will the voters of Oregon be able to accurately judge the performance of Democratic leadership." But Tom Ma honey who will stage a "return engagement" te the Senate, a Boivin supporter, "It Is no business of the Dem-o a 1 1 executive committee whom I vote for. se long as he is a Democrat." This is the political dilemma of our time. How can you maintain party effectiveness without party discipline; but how can you maintain that discipline without a tight organization such as was developed under the caucus-convention system? No satisfactory answers have been obtained either at national or at local levels.

Were the Democratic liberals in the minority, they would be the first to resent and resist invoking discipline such as they want now to impose. Safety Valve Break Ice, Start Flood! To the Editor: Wouldn't a photograph of the Izaak Walton League junior ice breaking, floor squatting," girl holding stunt make excellent propaganda for decadent anti- American stories in Pravda? I trust that all tha decent young Americans that it is my pleasure and privilege to know will snub their patronizing and somewhat insensitive sporting elders by boycotting the sugges tion. How silly can adults get? Francis Hughes 1927 Evergreen Ave. NE moo ei 4-cm Entered at Ihe post office 7 at Salem. as second class matter-end? act ml CoegTsas.

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Tall, distinguished in appear-? ance, he was affable, popular with others of the craft and with the political entourage whose1 maneuvers he observed and publicized. His death at age 58 is a real loss to Oregon. ft ft ft iz ft ft 'ft It has become an annual ritual for representa- tives of public service utilities to have their pic- lures taken presenting company checks for taxes to the county tax collector. Really the scene has. lost its news value.

The real news would be if j. they failed to pay their taxes. university 1 When "the Rose Bowl was the sole performance of the kind the consequences were limited. But now there are so many cotton bowl, 'gator bowl, orange bowl it's a national squandering of time and talent. The only one notheing used is the Mush Bowl.

Secretary of the Treasury Anderon made little headway at Bonn in his effort to get the Germans tA carry more of the defense burden. The U.S. pays cut $653 million to maintain its military establishment in that country. The German government is willing to put up $150 million as a share in foreign aid. much tarsmall, in Anderson's opinion.

The United States could solve the cost problem quickly be recalling its military forces, leaving the Germans to defend themselves. That of course is what the Soviet Union is hoping for. He even got around to we owe him! V. Vow tion Kennedy added, doubt with an eye on Nikita S. Khrush- chev, that everyone ought to realize that the United States would certainly fight for Berlin if need be.

The text of this Kennedy statement ought to be released, without copyright, for American publication. The contrast is sharp with the most important of President Eisenhower's statements on Berlin, which greatly upset Chancellor Adenauer. This was the circular formula offered by the President at the Paris NATO meeting: that the sacrifice of Berlin was but that Berlin could only be, defended if we were willing to go to war for it, which was also unthinkable. It was something of a shock, for a professionally assiduous American newspaper reader to hear this quite different Kennedy statement for the first time from the lips of Mayor Brandt. After the last two years of hoping for the best without preparing for the worst while the Berlin crisis dragged wearily onwards, such sternly straightforward language from the new President put tha outlook in a new perspective, as Mayor Brandt remarked.

If Kennedy has indeed reached the absolutely final decision he is quoted as having reached in me European interview, it explains his advocacy during the campaign, of an immediate airborne alert ef the Strategic Ah Command. Without this minimum measure of mobilization, the American: will to defend Berlin at all costs will hardly carry conviction. It also means many things. In particular, it means that there are likely to be some pretty breathless moments while Khrushchev and Kennedy test each other's wills. I There will be some at home.

and there will be many in London and elsewhere, who will not like the apparent cold finality of Kennedy's decision. Here in Berlin, however, it is easier to sympathize with this finality than it may be elsewhere. It seems hardly credible, but this city, while under daily threat, had made great progress and not just in self-beautifica-tion. Unemployment, which was still serious at tha time of Khrushchey's 1938 ultimatum, has now1 been replaced by a labor shortage. Production has reached new records.

So has the city's prosperity. Berlin, in truth, is a marvelous monument, showing how much men can accomplish against heavy odds by courage and industry and common sense. It remains for the future to show whether the monument will stand, and if this is the outcome, what the cost will be. From tha Files of ThelOragon Statesman Printing! Company, was elected King Bing of the Salem Cher-rians in the annual election of officers, I Better English By Williams 1. What' is wrong with.

this sentence? "If I jwas him, I would not buy that kind; of a suit" 2. What is the correct pronunciation of 3. Which of these words is misspelled? Munificence, mur-rhine. multiple, mucilaginous, municiple. 1 ANSWERS 1.

Say -If I WERE HE. I SHOULD not buy that kind of suit," omitting the 2. Pro- nounce naw-eev-tay, accent on last syllable, MunidpaL sd By JOSEPH ALSOP BERLIN No place on earth conveys a more vivid sense of America's world responsibility than this brisk, brave, bustling, imperilled city. Coming here again, in the second year of the second Berlin crisis, is a sobering experience. Yet it is ex hilarating too, especially if your first memory of Berlin is the Berlin of 1945 a city all in ruins, with demobilized Red Army soldiers hopefully harnessing stolen horses to stolen farm carts in the Tiergarten, for the long drive back to Russia.

As the plane glides downwards over the Berlin rooftops, you think of that forgotten time, and of the heroic moment of the airlift, and of the big men who have represented America in Germanyi in the years since the war. Then, quite suddenly, through the windows of the admirable Mercedes 'taxi, the city con-' fronts you. Not only are the ruins gone. Not only is the grim, pinched bleakness of tha city beseiged nowhere' te be seen. In these last two while daily threatened with a renewal of the selge, Berlin has acquired a.

curious, northern beauty all its awn, adding a new solid hand sameness while further brighten- ing its hard won glitter of prosperity. To this free 'city, you cannot help but think with' pride, we" in America have made our contribution. And then you discover, with some amazement, that every politically minded Berliner, from courageous Mayor Willi Brandt to the porter at the hotel, is now joyfully quoting a statement, by President-eject John F. Kennedy which has not even been heard about in America. The history of this statement the sternest made by any Western leader since the second Berlin crisis began is interesting.

It was part ef a heavily copyrighted interview, in the form of written answers to written questions, which was granted by Kennedy to a European news agency, just before the election, for publication in case ha was elected. With no qualifications whatever, Kennedy stated in his interview that the defense of Berlin's freedom was essential to the security of the whole free world. There was no real differ-' ence, he suggested, between defending Berlin and defending Paris or New York. And still without the smallest qualifica Time Flies! 10 Years Ago Nov. 24, i Miss Carolyn Brady and Commander John Lindbeck married in the chapel of St.

Paul's Episcopal Church. The bride is the oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brady John is the son of Mr. and Mrs: A.

L. Lindbeck. 25 Years Ago Nov 2, 1W5 Sub-debs plan a charity sports dance. Proceeds will go to the Spinsters philanthrophy. Committee members are Audrey Fehler, Frances Roth, Nora Woodry, Yeager, Lucy Fisher and Anita Wagner.

40 Years Ago Nov. 26, 129 Charles E. Knowland. one of tha operators of Commercial DATUS MYERS JEFFERSON Graveside services were held at the Jefferson cemetery on Wednesday morning for Datur E. Myers.

81. of Shasta Springs, Calif, who died at ML Shasta on Nov. 19 of a stroke. Mr. Myers was the son of Richard F.

and Mary Eveline Myers and a grandson of Samuel and Ellen Earl Miller, pioneers of the Parrish Gap area. He was born near the present site of Talbot on Sept. 29, 1879 and attended Jefferson schools. He lived for a time in Chicago, New Mexico and at San Diego before moving to Shasta Springs in 1934. A talented artist, he had dona many types of work, including murals at the San Francisco lair.

Survivors include a son, Lt.r Col onel Richard E. Myers, Bastrop, Texas: daughter, Mrs. Eva Jen- ten, Santa Fe, New Mexico; five grandchildren; three brothers. Chester of Jefferson, Fred, Salem and John. Los Angeles; and a sister.

Mrs. Mattie Cade. Sum ner, Wash. Fisher Funeral Home of Albany was in charge of arrangements. Mervin McGill officiated.

NELLIE ROBINSON MILL CITY Mrs. Nellie Rob inson, 73, died at her home here Thursday evening. She was born at Mill City Aug. 2. 1887.

Survivors include two sons, Charles Kelly, Mill City, and Max Kelly, Barstow, five grand children, two great-grandchildren; two nephews and a niece. Funeral services will be Sun day at 2 o'clock from the Pres byterian Church at Mill City with Rev. Richard Cole officiating. Interment will be at Fairview Cemetery. Weddle Funeral Home at Stayton is directing arrange ments.

HARRT. RACON SILVERTON Funeral services for Harry B. Ragon. 69, Monday at 2 p.m. at the Ekman-Ungar Funeral home.

The Rev. Paul Henry of the Methodist Church will be in charge. 'Ragon died Wednesday night at the University of Oregon Med ical School In Portland from an unknown cause. Members of the family said that an autopsy re vealed that anourysm, an artery hernia, was the cause. Ragon was born Nov.

8, 1891 in Avon, 111., and moved. to Cana da in 1914, and to Silverton in 1943, where he was in charge of State Liquor Commission store until be retired three years agO. Survivors include his widow. Lydia, Silverton; a daughter, Gail Ragon, Portland; four sons, Robert Ragon, Silverton; LL ICoL Dale Ragon, Eua GaQL Rex B. Ragon.

Houston. and Major' William B. Alex andria, La. EMMA DICKENSON WOODBURN Mrs. Emma Dickenson, 83, died Friday at a Woodburn nursing home.

Her home was at 771 Blaine Street, eoming here from Koseburg 1916. She was born at Deposit, N.Y., on June 29, 1875, and was a member of i the Christian Science Church. Survivors include six sons, Roy, Woodburn, Loyd, Sheridan, Clarence and Kenneth, of Springfield, Lee, Grants Pass, and Wesley, Siletr; daughter, Mrs. Joe Walker of Woodburn; brother Eason Fuller of Kansas; grandchildren ery, forming a drift and sending the river out of its channel. Residents of the area said it is the worst flooding of Roaring River they can remember.

Logs Move Bridge A log jam in Silver Creek south of Silverton moved the Peach Street bridge about two feet eff its base and the span will have to be rebuilt. James Street bridge was feared lost, but water receded in time to save the structure. Chlorinator feed lines at the city dam on nearby Abkjua Creek washed out. City Manager Robert Borland said letters were sent to 42 patrons warning them to boil drinking water until the lines can be repaired. Majority of residents receive their water through a filter plant that was not affected.

A. 300 foot wide slide covered the North Santiam Highway with 12 feet of muck, rock and trees just west of Mill City Thursday noon. The highway was still closed Friday, but traffic was being divert edover an old highway between Mehama and Lyons around the debris. The South Santiam Highway from Albany to Bend was closed Thanksgiving Day when a slide blocked the road just west of its junction with the North Santiam Highway. But 100 feet of the highway slid down into the river just east of Cascadia and highway crews were unable to say bow long it will take to repair the big dam age.

Few Reeds Closed A few roads in the mid-valley area were suit dosed by high water Friday night, among these CorvaHis to Albany 'was closed by the rising Willamette River which also cut off travel on the Salem road that goes through Roberts cornrmmity southwest of Salem. Lino Counfyf which reported almost all county roads closed Thursday, was nearly back to normal Friday as surface water and drainage streams receded. The same situation was reported by all other counties. Car Washed Away Near Scio a small foreign sedan washed off the road in flooding waters of Thomas Creek. Chief- of Police Chester Harmon said two girls that were, in the vehkle had waded out and.

were gone before he arrived and be could not determine their identities. State police reported several motorists were stranded through out Linn. County, and as late as 5:40 a-m. Friday officers had to use boats to remove ooccpanls of two vehicles from a flooded area of the Lebanoo-Corvallis Highway. The scene was near the crossing of Calapooia river about five miles southwest of Albany.

Accident Reported Once accident was blamed di rectly upon the weather. At In dependence a sedan crashed into a power pole near the WSlametta River bridge just south of tha city. Richard Ward, 17. Moo- mocth, told police came throcgh high water and "iHdnl realize bis wet crakes were not working. Coming off the steep bridge incline be was unable to halt the vehicle.

The pole was sheared and Ward was treated for non-serious injuries. Tha car -demolished, noted Pes Of George Utley. By MERVIN JENKINS Statesman Valley Editor Willamette Valley, residents were mopping up Friday, ssome with mops and buckets, others with shovels and rakes, following Thursday's violent rains which flooded the entire area. Hundreds of small streams that roamed wildly over fields, through woods and towns, subsided by daylight Friday and returned peacefully to their 1 i a 1 streambeds. Hardest hit was the city of Tur ner where a raging.

Mill Creek ate away banks above 'the town and swept straight through the business area. Merchants in several stores were cleaning up debris left by water that came into the buildings, including Fitzger ald Variety, Gene's Grocery, The Red Cress late Friday afternoon reported any families in the Tomer area needincj food, clothing or shelter, should contact the Salem office of Red Cross, EM 2-36 or EM 2-4524. No families needing help had yet been located, the office noieu. Chapman Restaurant, Ball Broth ers and pumping out basements in most homes and the big Christian Church! Turner Hit Hard Greatest damage was inflicted on tne Dig tturuana unnoer Company where the big share of lumber in -the storage yards and lumber storage warehouse washed down Mill Creek. Extensive dam-ase occurred to electrical motors' and nlant machinery.

The mill reported it would be. closed sev eral days, but tentative reopening is planned Monday. Until about half the 50-man crew will be idled while the balance sal- lumber aionz me crees: from Turner to Salem, and otners work on damaged machines. Several families had to evacu ate their homes. Mud Slide Reported A mud slide cascaded into Roaring River above Scio Thurs day turning the normally-small river out of its banks and sending it down a road in front of the Ralph Crenshaw farm.

I Debris from the rampaging river blocked the inlet to Roaring River Fish Hatchery, endangering close to four million fish eggs and several thousand Rainbow trouL Hatchery officials with the help of volunteers had debris cleared enough to allow passage at water by late afternoon. They worked through the night to clear the rest of the inlet. Fresh water was cut off for 90 minutes, i It will be several' days before is known how much damage was done to the fish and eggs muddy water makes it impossible now to spot them, TL, The landslide entered the river about two miles above the hatch and 43 great grandchildren Her husband George Riley Dickenson died in 194L Services ill be Monday at 10:30 a jn. from Ringo-CornweQ Funeral Chapel in Woodburn, aritb interment at Bella Passi Ceme tery. Respect for Capitalism Up in Mexico, Journa I ist Declares But it is a good place to stay a while, not only because kind- ness still lives here if manana does not.

This is a striking vantage point from which to view in rather remote perspective the urgencies we have been having ajt home, in the presidential campaign and now in the hiatus between the Eisenhower administration and the new Kennedy administration. We face a time of ever-growing preoccupation with foreign affairs, including Latin-American affairs, with Castro Cuba in mind. They face here what Pres-idente Adolfo Lopez Mateos calls the year of the homeland the year of the country. In a word, the Mexicans are looking inward at their expanding economy and their wide and perhaps slightly extreme welfare program. Wa are looking outward in anxiety at a great world where menace seems to lie in ambush in every continent and on every sea.

No casual tripper, such as this correspondent, should say he was sure on the point, on a mere few days' observation. But this casual tripper would make a small bet that the Mexicans officially and are not really desperately concerned about Castro's Cuba or the United States, either. There Is sympathy here with our attitude toward the smallest. Latin dictator, Castro, aver to By WILLIAM WHITE MEXICO CITY The green and red and white tricolor of the of Mexico flies with ex-' traordinary here in the metropolis and in all the dusty, ancient little pueblos. This country celebr a with an inner peace and sense ofvsafe-4 ty not known to us above the Rio Gran- S.

Wfetti anniversary of its modern revolutionthat led by Francisco Madero against the old world military dictatorship of Porfirio Dias. This is a good place in which to spend a few days in the incomparable hospitality of the Mexicans, whose persistant kind- ness is the last vestige of the Mexico one remembers from, say. 10 years ago. Industrialization has arrived tiara, and with it many of the heavy things and gadgets which at home ara sa useful to us materially but which sa weigh down awr will fa take It easy sometimes and to rest in the shede ef the trees. There Is in Mexico no more manana, no mre of the eld wonderful cas-tralness which would put off ta day after tot net raw what illy should have yasttrday at tha latest.

raise so large a concern in Washington. For Mexico, though commonly described as a left-wing, country, has actually an increasing, rather than a decreasing, respect for capitalism. Tha political slogans sound pretty pinkish, but the Chamber of Commerce is an infinitely bigger thing than all Marxian theory. The Mexicans, save for a tiny and narrow minority, do not speak even faintly in the accents of the Kremlin. This is so because Mexico is having what we had after the Civil War a century ago, an enormous rise in the propertied middle class.

Tha eld Mexican grandees ara dying out and sa ara tha frightfully huddled masses. The new dominant, class is -not high and not low but rather middling. These fellows, who have sa recently come to a vastly better life materially, want no part of Castro. But they also are not exactly anxious to take any hand in any all-out United States effort to halt that singularly unpleasant lackey of imperialist Communism. They want to be left alone and perhaps we ought to understand, if not condone.

There was a very long; in the face of rampant totalitarianism we, too, only wanted to be left alone. Copyrlaht.1960. by United Features syndicate. Inc.).