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PAGE FOUR r The OREGON STATESMAN. Sakmu Oregon. Tuesday Morning Angnst 13. 1929 -? NEW DISTRICT FOB STATE UP Multnomah County Proposed a Unit for Portland Legion Posts Anton g the business matters to 1 come before the American Legiou convention Is a proposed addition -to the districts of the state where-, by Multnomah county would be ', made into a district containing only members of the Portland Le gion posts. As the situation now exists the district includes a num ber ot the smaller communities around Portland. The seven dis tricts -now in existence are: flM-t tho delerates. A tew constitutional ch&ases are to come up for consideration, j Ont of these creates a redismci- ing ot the state with Muitnowrth county a district by Itself. Aa the state stands now there arc seven districts as follows: -District 1 Astoria Portland Estacada Rainier Gresham St. Helens Oregon City Vemonia Portland Waoua Portland Seaside . Delegates 56. District 2 Amity Ncwberg Banks Salem Dallas Sheridan Forest Grove . Sherwood HUlsboro S'lverton Independence Stayton McMlnnTille Tillamook Monmouth Delegates 58. District 8 Albany Brownsrilie Corrallis Cottage Grove Eugene Lebanon Moaroe Newport 3pringfield Toledo Junction City Delegates 34. District 4 Ashland Bandon Coquille Gold Beach Grants Pass Kerby KUmath Falls Delegates 52 Lakeriew Marshfield Medford Myrtle Point North Bend Reedsport Roseburg , District 5 Antelope Moro Bend Mosler Dufur PrineTllle Grass Valley Redmond Hood RiTer The Dalles Kent Wasco Manpin Delegates 34. District 6 Arlington Hermiston Athena lone Condon Milton Fossil Pendleton Heppner Delegates 21. District 7 Baker Burns Dayville Elgin Enterprise Hnntington Irabler John Day Jordan Valley La Grande North Powder Ontario Prairie City Wallowa Westfall Union Delegates (0. Another proposed constitution al change is a proposition to make past commanders a mem ber of conventions without vote; at present they do have a vote. A third change will be in the matter of election of delegates to. the national convention which are now elected by the state con vention. If the change carries the individual districts would elect said delegates. S "1929" Title of Piece to be Played by Salem Boys At This Meeting Every year since "Rudy Schols, Portland musician, has been director of the Salem drum corps he has composed and dedi cated an arrangement of music for the drum corps and given it the. name of the year in which 't was composed. He has veen di rector since 1925. and therefore he has live compositions which are unique- to Salem's drum corps. Everyone says that "192$" is the best of all. He was woven a number of snatches from old lav orie war-time songs Into a drum corps medley with real music as a result. This result of real music pro duced by a drum corps is another thing in which Salem drum corps Is unique. Other drum corps fto far as is known now rhythm but no musical notes which produce harmony. "1929' was started when Rudy was on his way back with the drum corps from San Antonio where it lost first place by three tenths ot one point out of the 2000 points upon which the corps were Judged. The next national competition is In Louisville, Kentucky. ! Sal em Capital post is planning upon being represented by Its . drum corps accompanied by their' direc tor, Rudy Scholx, and Paul Bur ris, instructor, according to "Dave" 8hade who has been chairman of the drum corps and cands committee ot . the legion commission for the convention. CrawfordsVisit - At Zena Home ZENA. August 7 Mr. and Mrs. E. C Crawford of Salem and Mrs. Crawford's - nephew, - Richard Marsh ot MeMJnnville, were San day visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S D. Crawford. " Mr. and Mrs. Victor Madsen ot Sllverton and daughter. Colleen were Monday visitors at tho home or MfTand Mrs. Alvin Madsen. mm c First Settlement in Salem lr Dates Bac Wagon Train Came in 1843 Original Site of CilTCalled "The Mills" by Settlers and Chemeketa by Indians Who Camped in This Section By R. J. HENDRICKS TASON LEE arrived at the "old mission" site on the east j bank of the Willamette, October 6, 1834, and began building the first log house. The site of Salem was. then a wilderness. It was an ancient Indian camp, called Chemeke ta by the natives, meaning home, or pleasant home. Jason Lee be.sran buildin? the mission sawmill and grist mill on North Mill creek in 1840. nnd soon hereafter, a short dis tance northeast of the mills, fronting on what became the stage road, the first residence in what is now Salem. The site was then called "The Mills." It was called Chemeketa Plain when Willamette University was founded in 1842, and opened August 13. 1S44, as the Oregon Institute with 20 children. Chloe A. Wilson being the first teacher. In 1843, when the first covered wagon tram arrived in the Ore ton country, "Salem contained three houses," according to J. W. Nesmith, r.fterward U. S. senator, who was with that immigration. They were the mills and the Lee residence. But Salem had "hot been name"d. It was "The Institute," in the first contract to carry the mails, in 1845, and thereafter. J. D. Boon, who then occupied O the Lee houe. in 1849, was both territorial treasurer and Salem postmaster, in that house, which had served as a residence, hospit al, mission store and meeting place and general headquarters. Thomas Cox brought a store across the plains in his covered wagon drawn by an ox team in the 1847 immigration and built and owned the first general store in what is now Salem that fall, near the present Commercial and Fer ry streets. The second store here was that of J. B. MeClane, on "Boon's Isl and." near the mission milk, opened In 1849. The third was that ,of J. D. Boon and Philesttr Lee, at what Is now the northeast corner of Commercial and Cheme keta streets. Leslie Named Town Salem was named by David Leslie, Methodist missionary. The platting of the original town was done by William H. Willson. for mer missionary worker. The sur vey was made by I. X. Gilbert, who also recorded it as county clerk, March 22, 1850. January 13. 1851, the territor legielaturc removed the capital to Salem from Oregon City. The ter ritorial state house was complet ed and occupied on the site of the present capitol, December 18. 1855. There had been a bitter con troversy over the location of the capital, and the state house was burned by an incendiary fire, De cember 29, after being occupied only 11 days. Oregon had been made a terri tory August 14. 1848. It was made a state February 14. 1859. The 1872 legislature authorized work on the present capitol. It was accepted from the contractor partiaUy completed, August 26, 1876. The supreme court build ing was completed January 1, 1914. The state office buUding now being erected will cost nearly as much as both the capitol and the supreme court building. "Pen" Opened in 1878 The penitentiary was opened at its present site in Salem in 1876. The institution is on its way to self-support through its Industries and will-fe-the second with that distinction in a northern state. The state school for the. deaf was established in Salem in 1870; the school for the blind was opened February 26, 1873. The state hos pital (asylum) was opened in Sa lem in 1883; the industrial school for boys In 1891; institution tor the feeble minded, 1908; state tu berculosis hospital, 1910; indus trial school for girls, 1915. The state payrolls in Salem run to about $1,500,000 annually, to WELCOME VISITORS of the American Legion and Auxiliary fIsa Local and long distant hauling, Crating, w Wood, Coal, Fuel Oil say nothing of many common wealth activities radiating from the eapital, Hke those of the high way department, and dozens of others, feeding several times that sum annually into the channels of trade here. Salem Payroll City But Salem's prominence as a payroll city comes chiefly from her manufacturing activities from the industries on the farms in her trade territory, and In the city Itself, In paper mills, convert ing plant, woolen mills, linen mills, and many others. Salem's great prosperity and permanent progress comes and will grow from her payrolls. This trade dis trict requires in harvest upwards of 60,000 people in the peak time of hop and prune picking. The canneries and packing plants here employ 4,000 to 5,000 people in the busy part of. the packing and processing season. The number will constantly increase; and espe cially in the all-year Employments. Salem built the first woolen mill on the Pacific coast, in 1856. In 1880, the town had only about 2,500 people in its corporate lim its; 3,500 in 1890; 4,000 in 1900, but in 1910 had grown to about 17,000 and to over 20,000 in 1920. At the present time the city has at least 30,000 In the metropoli tan district including close-In sub urbs. "This Is the land of diversity and the country of opportunity, and We Greet You American Legion and Auxiliary Members Capital City Bedding Co 3030 N. Pacific Highway f i i - Salem Is headed toward the 50. 000 mark, and then fto 100,000 and on up Indefinitely. The full development ot her flax and linen Industries alone, which is now well on its way, vfilL Justify and support a city of 100,009 people; yes, five times that number, for she will be the Belfast of the New World, far more solid than the great Irish linen city of the Old World. And that la only one of many strings to Salem's bow ot prosper ity, with the potential possibilities of her vast contributing resources developed, as they wilt certainly be In due course with the Wil lamette valley like one great or chard and garden and paradise of prosperity and plenty, supporting in comfort as dense a population as Belgium. UP BEFORE MEET j If linn Hiui nnnnm Ttilrt I Posts Being Permitted Within One Town As for resolutions and legisla tive program there seems to be nothing In evidence to bring out after on the floor of the conven tion. In years heretofore there has been no end to resolutions ready and in the hands of the executive committee. This year there Is one lone resolution with which to set the mill grinding. This resolution is the upshot of the action ot the state executive j board in allowing a charter to a third post in Portland. Portland had always had two posts, a white post and one made up of colored men Then, because of certain In ternal conditions a third post was j granted. Two-Post Question TJp Now there Is a resolution before the convention to bar forever the granting of a second post under any circumstances without the consent ot the original post. Some Interesting facts In connection with this mooted subject Is that although nilnols has something over 30.000 members In Its legion yet no post has a membership as large as Roseburg. According to Legion men, all larger citlse and towns of the east have more than ene pest, as do Los Angelas and San Francisco. The outcome of this resoluiton may change legion organizatoin to considerable extent in Oregon. It is safe to predict much bus iness will come into committee hands with the beginning of the legion session. The legion like the state government handles Its busi Co. . Moving, Storage Governor Patterson's Message . . . - v To the Members of the American Legion, Depart ment of Oregon. On behalf of the State to extend a jj greetings to hospitality, s i -r your own communities new inspiration and enthusiasm for the American Legion's splendid program of ser vice. Very truly yours, L L. PATTERSON, .Governor. ness through committees and com mittee recommendation therefore the state house, which through official resolution No. 9, passed by the state legislature at the last session becomes the official head quarters for legislative work, will feel perfectly at home. Committee rooms will buzz, typewriters will click and senate and representative chambers will again become the scenes of debate following com mittee reports. Kill LINE IS LOS ANGELES Control of the Mi CIST WON Greetings Legion! Here are Flowers for the Auxiliary C. F. Breithaupt, Florist 512 State f i a jiniirir" r wiiw ii i www jetewMi tmr&Mi&tttij t-ftTfcsnt-v lswMsWilMlliBBssirM for the American Legion Convention We have just installed a night washing shift for the occa-v . sion. Have an experienced washer on duty from 7:00 a. m. to 12:00 p. m. . Corner Chemeketa and High of Oregon, I am most happy hearty welcome and cordial . the members of the Depart ment of Oregon of the American Le gion in attendance at the annual con vention in Salem. We are glad to have you as guests f ; in our capital city, and will do every- i thing within our power to make your ij convention a happy and successful $1 meeting. May you enjoy here the pleas-' ure of good fellowship, of old friend ships renewed, and of whole-hearted and may you take back to We-t Coast Air Transportation company which operates between j San Francisco and Seattle has j been acjuired by a group of airj transportation magnates headed by j Harris M. Hanshue, president of the Western Air Express and the Fokker Aircraft Corp., and James A. Talbot, chairman of the board of Richfield Oil company and Western Air Express, acording to a recent announcement. Acquisition of the assets of the West Coast line indicate the regard which aeronautical minds have for the potential value of commercial airplane transportation in the great northwest. The recently ac quired line passes through tfame of the richest and most progres sive regions along the Pacific Coast and connects at San Fran cisco with , the de luxe passenger line observed by Western Air. i Surely You "WJlWHIiJ...l.miil i in in in- ipu nil in ... j rM HMKrtWW .... KWlix. . v WASHED ATT :'ccil 'WIIIHIff OESEIVIKSB Sill IS CITY OF 1 ' (Continued from Pago 1) and arranged. . Sany Salem business men live out some distance from town and here they enjoy beautiful country homes. An outstanding example of this Is the home of F. A. Doer fler, farm advisor of the First Na tional Bank. Mr. Doerfler lives eight miles east of Salem and has one of the outstanding home flower gardens ot the Salem district. Ho special izes in rock and water plants and has a sunken garden, that is the Joy and wonder ot all who visit IL The gardens of Homer Smith and William McCllchrlst, Jr., on North Summer street as well as tht of Mrs. Clifford Brown on IMIoi'.cn street are well known as WELCOME LEGIONNAIRES Cigars - Welcome Legionnaires Kirkwood Motor Co. INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS - IIUPMOBILE AUTOMOBILES 285 Chemeketa H((o)MH Want Your i 1 i mm m ism ;8 EE the city's beauty spots. Thus does Salem earn the rep utation of the city of beautiful homes. People come to Salem be cause they like the climate and the natural advantages it offers. They stay and build homes that are a Joy to themselves and to all who see them. Jefferson Fine Little Town on Banks of River This beautiful little city Is lo cated on the bank of the South Santiam river, exactly in the cen. ter of the famous Willamette valley, 17 miles south of Salem. Most every business Is repre sented, also churches and a pub lic school which has no superior. The school is a 12 grade school with a commercial course in addi tion, and a modern school budd ing. Soft Drinks TeL 311 w "ftrThsr I J" TeL ' 471