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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 8, 1929)
PAGE TWO The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning; An gust 8, 1929 IBFOOT HELD 1 1 inmin if Mini r IfflUK i ULt Silyerton's Hopefuls Oldtimers Insist Willamette Valley Has Just Enough : :: Rain for Crops Who aaid tb people of the Willamette valley are web-footed, jast beeaaae It rains oace la a while daring Norember, Decern ber and January of eaeh rear? Call to the witness stand J. A. Baker who has lired In Salem for tO years. He has seen the Willamette valley product sprout, grow, blossom and deerlop into maturity and yet he has no rec ord of hating seen a real web. foot. Nor has Aimer Lewis who was born Bear Salem In 1846. He has seen them come and go. And so has W. T. Rigdon who has lired in and near Salem for the past 79 years. Judge P. H. Darcy will soon ceelbrate his 70th year la Salem and the judge will testify he has n't seen a genuine web-foot or anything like a web-foot In all his newspaper and legal experi ences. Fact Is, away bach in aneient fimes.lt rained a couple of wtreks in Salem and some one whodtdnt understand that rain was necessary for the wonderful development of the Willamette valley started a wide propaganda about the web-footed folks in western Oregon. Of course, there are a few who can remember February and March, 1909. when it rained al most continuously for two man tha right here in Salem. The sun came out a couple days dur ing those two months, but all the old- timers knew inch weather conditions were exceptional. Just as it Is when the Los Angeles riv er suggests a- Sahara. Excep tional conditions will happen, you know. The government through its weather bureau ha sa record of precipitation la Salem since 1890 and these figures are of course official. On the basis of its observations for the past 39 years, the weather bureau reports that the average rainfall in Salem is only 37 Inches annually. Now if. people ace to become web-footed on the basis of annual rainfall, how abont Indianapolis with an average of 41.48 inches a year and Boston with 43.38 inches and Washington, D. C, with 43.50 Inches. The record for New York citj Is 44.63 inches annually and of Tacoma, 45.51 inches. In the southern part of this country where It rains by the hucketsful. Galveston has an average rainfall of 47.08 inches and New Orleans, 57.42 inches. The difference Is this: Salem has but half an Inch of rainfall during July and August, which makes this an ideal country for ramping out and hiking and for the tourist. In Chicago the av erage rainfall for July Is 3.64 Inches and for August, 2.88 inches. In November, wnen saiem nas an average rainfall of 6.35 inch es, Chicago has only 2.50 inches. Kovember Is our month of heavi est precipitation. Those who have lived in the mountain states or the Mississippi valley know all about thunder storms, lightning crashes and electrical storms. In that coun try, when It rains. It rains and the nqults. In the Willamette valley, the weather man provides the moisture in a more leisurely, aristocratic fashion. No rush at all. Plenty of time and hence one in a while, it requires a day or two just to Produce a rainfall that the eastern states would ex perience in an hour or so. Web feet? There ain't no such animal In the Willamette valley of Oregon. TJ5;v -rv"- r--' '3 L Top row, from the left: Ernest Starr, aaaaager; Lloyd Beetey, Mer ril Nehl, George Hfbbard, Howard Slyter, Ralph Holman, Orville Schwab, Kenneth 3 fanning. Dr. C. W. Simmons, past commander. Bottom row: Earl Ramp, Ralph Dimick, Alphle Rodebovser, Vincent Kebcr, "Babe' Sofawab, mascot; Jesse Arbuckle, Ernest Garterteo. F1BM If MB 0 1 SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Aug. I (AP) Recommendations were made today at the 4th annaal convention of the American Poultry association In session here that four scholarships In ag ricultural colleges be established, one in the east, one hi the middle west, another in the south and a foureh In the west. The recom mendation stipulated that hold. era of the scholarship major la poultry husbandry during the course of the college residence and for two jeara thereafter. Complete accord was reached during this afternoon's session on the mle3 and regulations for efficient flock inspection for cer tifying and grading flocks for an American poultry Inspection cer tificate.. Harry Atkins of Des Moinea, la., chairman of the committee on licensing flock In spectors, submitted a complete re. port on procedure in certifying hatcheries, the report standard ising an action which heretofore has been at loose erds. Legion Teams Ready to Put On Mighty Hard Battle on Friday at Olinger Field Portland, Silverton Posts Find Players That Can Play Great National Game as Old-Timers Used to Do it Probable Lineups Gyro Card Silverton Koch, S3 Slyter, If Fawcett, If Seely, cf Wilson, cf Manning, lb Bishop, c Hibbard, ss Henry Olsen, 3b Schwab, p Hilands, lb Nehl, 3b Herman Olsen, rf Keber, 2b Voll, 2b Holman, rf Charles, p Rudehouser, c BY RALPH CURTIS The national frame and the American Letrion have much in common. The boys who went away to fight in 1917 were the boys who had been playing ball on the sandlots and the school grounds; they discarded gloves and spiked shoes for rifles and trench boots, and they were the better soldiers for having played baseball. In camp on this side of the water, every company had its ball team, and there was a lot of base ball played even in the A. E. F. Recognition of baseball as a builder of manhood and character caused the American Legion two years ago to launch a gigantic program for the encouragement of the na tional game; and that is why the department of Oregon has listed, as one of the major features of its convention program this week, the state championship game between teams which hav fought their way to the finals by defeating all opponents in their respective distnets. gleaned from the folio .ring roster of tha players: James Arbuckle, II, outfielder. Silverton; Ralph Dimick. II, shortstop and outfielder, Hub bard; Ernest Garbarino II, second heap aad outfielder, Brooks; oeorg Hihbard, 15. i shortstop. Molsila: Ralph Holman, IS, cat cher and outfielder, Molalla; Tin- cent Keber. 14, second basa and outfielder, ML Angel; Henry Lof tier, 14, pitcher and outfielder. Hubbard; Kenneth Manning, is. first base,' Gerrala: Merre-1 Nehl, if, third base, Weodbura; Alphle Rudehouser. 18," catcher, SiiTer fonj Orrllle Schwab, 11, pitcher, Getrais: Lloyd Seely, If, outfield er and pitcher. Corrals; Howard Slyter, IS. outfield and third base. Molalla. DeLay Is Coach The team has been coached by G. W. DeLay. Silrertoa high school coach; Ernest Starr Is man ager, and Dr. A. W. Simmons, commander of the Silrerton post. has general charge. . In the seren games of the elim ination series, the Silrerton team hat scored 110 runs and ft hits. In the district games it defeated Salem 11 to 1, Dallas 24 to 1 and Newberg 25 to S. la practice games it defeated the Sherman Clay team of Salem .11 to 5. won from Central Howell to 4. from the Monmouth town team S to 2, from the Grant Seniors of Port land 7 to 4. It lost to the Silrer ton Woodmen 10 to 4, and to Cen tral Howell in a second game 4 to 2. The, Gyro Cards also hare an impressive record. They won 14 games and lost oae in regularly scheduled American Legion Jun ior games, and defeated several in dependent teams by impressive scores. They won nine out of ten games in the sectional series, thus qnalffying tor the elimination ser ies participated in by six sectional winners. The teams in this round were evealy matched, and close games resulted, but the Cards and the Hiland Aces came through to the finals undefeated. In the final game the Cards won 4 to t after a sensational ' pitchers battle, Koeh, shortstop, driving In -fiie tying and wianlM'g rctu la the ninth after the Cards' trailed behind most of the game. No Stars Among Card The Cards hare no outstanding stars; they art Jast a bunch of good ball players almost. perfect In their teamwork and oa the hustle all the time. Much of their 200 Teams Hustle That means that the Silverton team and the Gyro Cards of Port land are the best aggregations out of the 200 hustling teams In Ore gon that started competition ear ly in the spring, and no matter how the final contest goes, the thousands of baseball fans and convention visitors who attend Friday's game, at 2:30 p. m. on Olinger field, will see real base ball. Winners In the various dis tricts were: No. 1. Astoria: No. 2. Silverton; No. 3, Eugene; No. 4, Medford; No. 5. Hood Rirer; No. 6. Milton; No. 7, Ontario; No. 8. Gyro Cards of Portland. Silverton swamped Astoria 18 to 0 and 16 to 1; Eugene noaod out Medford 7 to 6; the Cards beat Hood Rirer 32 to 0; Ontario beat Milton 10 to 3. In the semi finals, Silrerton defeated Eugene 10 to 1 and 6 to 2, and the Gyro Cards beat Ontario 14 to 0. Territory Restricted Although not so restricted by the rules of the national eommis sion of the American Legion, the Silverton post has restricted se lection of its players to the terri tory from which it draws its mem bers. That territory, however. covers a large portion of north era Marion county and southeast era Clackamas county, as may be Welcome To Our Town Legionnaires and Members of the Auxiliary ! I H. MARIE BUTLER 429 Court Formerly Larsen's Streefe Millinery Gervais on Main Line ot Railroad xl th ol Carraia Drva!a la located on the mala line of the Southern -Pacific rail road and one-fourth mile west of the Pacific highway and 14 mtlea tk of Salem. Gervais has fie State bank, two mer chandise stores, drug store, hartL ware, confectioneries, shoe shop, two garages, four warehouses, ex press and telegraph office, motel. Catholic aad Presbyterian church es. Masonic - HalL fraternity or awklatfAAai TTlt V t vV AaAi , public and . parochial ' school. 'Three rural mall routes and seven rural telephone lines center here. Glad to See You Visit Salem 0 rs s. tBODYSB0P XfiLAS&Z 207 S. Ccjxmntrdbl - Telephone 578 FU1X GROWING ra Pcnitehttary to be Self- Supporting in Time; Acreage Large (Continued from Page 1.)' time no successful method has been evolved for artificial retting or drying fiber flax straw, not withstanding that millions of dol lars have "been spent in an effort of this kind. Straw' Retted and Bundled When, the straw Is thoroughly dried It la bundled up and taken tnto our retted straw warehouse where It la required to season for some time before going into the mills for further processing. From that department the atraw goes In to number one mill where it is scutched, that Is, the fiber and spinning tow is recovered from tha straw. About eighteen months sgo this plant was turning out about too pounds of uber and about 400 pounds of spinning tow This same plant is now turning out 4400 pounds of fiber and 2000 pounds of spinning tow per day. We have recently Installed what Is known as 'an All-Through scutehmr machine. This machine I . . . . f . replaces nana uiuw ai a jiou; reduced cost and gives a higher ylled of fiber from the straw. We oroeose to abolish all hand scutching at the earliest possible success may be credited to thje coaching of "Bill" Garbarino. who took charge of the erratic group of youngsters early in the season and mounded them into a smootn Iy working machine, drilling them in the fine points of the game and instilling fight and confidence that will be hard for any team to surmaunt. . The personnel Includes: Diek Bishop, catcher; Treadway Charles, Slmer Williams, Joe Kline and Jim Farmer, pitchers; Walter Hilands, first baseman; John Voll, second baseman; Hen ry Olsen. third baseman; Roy Koch and Don Glenx, shortstops; Don Fawcett, left fielder; John Wilson, center fielder; Herman Olsen, right fielder. data and replace It with these "all through scutching machines.' Tha fiber from these scutching ma chines gives a larger yield in haek- ling becaase tha fiber is not tons or broken to the extent experi enced from hand scutching. - - Private Capital Soagh Progress made in, the. flax in dustry now warrants prtvated cap ital investing in flax mills. Several districts have been waiting for two or three years tor this condition to arrive. I make this statement for the following reasons: To a are now able to poll your flax by machine and . every subsequent operation can be handled by ma chinery. The time has arrived when smalL flax mills may be or ganized and operated in centers where it has been proven that fi ber flax can be grown profitably. These plants In my judgment will have to be operated under a co operative scheme, and they will have to have experienced and pro-: grssive management-1 rould far mer aavise any person or group of persons going into this Industry to keep in close touch with our state flax Industry which will be glad to give them the benefit of their experience. Markets Are Well Established In regard to markets we are in a very happy position. We hare established a demand for our flax in Massachusetts. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York states. We have shipped approx imately 300 tons of fiber and spinning tow to Ireland and Scot land. Our logical mills will require between three and four hundred tons of fiber annually. From this you will see we have got to move along from now on to keep pace with the demand of the market we have opened up. On several oc casions during the past year we have had to refuse offers for as much as one hundred tons for the only reason that we did not have the fiber to fill the orders. Another pleasing feature has been that we have never received one word of complaint on any flax fiber that we have shipped out side the state of Oregon. Oa the other hand we have received sev eral letters advising us how sat isfactory our fiber was and In quiring as to when further ship ments would be available. In connection with the manu facturing end of this development, tha prospects for a vast industry look vary promising to me. The first mill built here-Mhe Miles Linen.- company la manufactur ing ahoo treads and setae and sack twines. Their product is meeting with favor among the fishermen and "other channels of trade , in competition with firms who have been established for generations. They have orders enough ahead to keep their mill in production dur ing the next seven months. Second Mill Strong The Oregon Linen Mills, the second mill, built to spin yarns and to manufacture linea cloth, is gradually working towards a de sirable condition; .This miU has at present about 80 employes working two eight-hour shifts. It spins wet. damp and dry spun yarns. The quality of the yarns are entirely satisfactory. - Very shortly we expect to start weaving crashes and glass checks and they will find a ready market for all such goods produced in the Pa cinf Ic Northwest, Summing up the whole situa tion we find our flax industry running on a profitable basis both to the farmers and to the state and our spinning and weaving mills working out also towards a profitable Investment. To make this development a greater contri bution to our state is now only a question of expansion. I can see no reason why tha industry can not be made to expand and to be brought to such proportions so as it will replace many millions of dollars Worth of linen yarns and woven cloth llnea goods that are now imported Into our country. CRASH KILLS FIVE KENOSHA, Wis.. Aug. 1. (AP) Ten persons were burned In an automobile crash near here tonight, five of them probably fatally. Yes Sir, Legion! Bring the Auxiliary to the Waffle Bungalow 137 N. High They'll like our waffles better than - their own P. S. We serve more than waffles. Verne Legionnaires Jack Welcome to Salem Visitin, Legionnaires and Ladies of the Auxiliary Capital City Transfer Co. 226 State ; Telephone 933 Local and Lon Distance Haiiling Welcome to Salem .3 Scheeler Auto Wrecking Co. 1085 N. Commercial Telephone 819 i Good Morning J K, nx American Legion ,1 Auxiliary Wd i ft Just thought we'd call 3fMf your attention to the fact J ldQn that there are NO POOR U fZdS iImS&I FISH at the Fitts Market 216 N. Com'l. VT? I Welcomi j I . Legionn II May your Annual Conven- III tion in Salem be the most'en- 1 1 I llll joy able you have ever had. Dm " " " " V i iWelhm &lem Welcome Legionnaires and Auxiliary Members Investigate Our Recaping Service Before Buying Your New Tires if Greasing I i II For Electrical and Battery Service e. ei. DmnnEiLii - TJie Sattery and Electrical oa 464 N. Liberty Storage, Washing, and Wheel Alig. 17 o vvo 264. N. Hfeir Street Phone 114