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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 3, 1931)
PAGE TEN The OREGON STATESMAN," Sales!, Oregon, Friday Morning, Jnly 3, 1931 ... i . , CREDIT mm IS BUSY PLAGE Financial Data on Most of Salem Vicinity. People Is on File There , ,"How floes Blank's Grocery .know whether or not I should be . allowed to open a charge .ao count?" In the answer to ' that Question lies the story of one- of the. busiest offices in Salem, that of the Salem Retail Credit bureau - On the fourth-floor of the Ma- - sonic building is a suite ot rooms In Which , two men and six wom- - e& are kept busy and .where three trunk: telephone lines are almost constantly In use. In this office are. filed more than 47.000 cards ' each bearing the history of some Individual's credit. If there is mortgage on your car or you hare not paid for yonr last win tor's suit the story is probably on V eae of those cards. Likewise. If you pay yonr bills promptly or II you maker payment on an ac count as yon agreed to do you are rated on the card as a good credit risk. . . Time was when' a merchant sired up an applicant for cred ' It and on his personal judgment granted or refused to grant cred it. Those days are no more and therefore the busy, telephone lines. Jill day the conversations go . something like this the tele phone rings. "Retail Credit Bu- Lau. a feminine voice answers. Taia is Iepts Department store. John Doe route 8, Dallas." "Just a moment please."- The girl turns to the file, pulls out a card and roads to the Inquirer "Ho owns a small farm, has had accounts at sereral stores here and has al ways paid promptly. High credit . 10." - ' There nay be much more but oa that Information the store grants or refuses to grant credit. Members Receive . Abstract Dally Each day the bureau Issues an abstract to Its members. This contains a list of all the legal transactions filed in Polk and Marion counties on the previous -. day. These may be mortgages, foreclosures, building permits, and even divorces.' These . ab stracts are delivered by messenger to the customers of the bureau. . The policy of the bureau is gov ern euy an advisory board con sisting of the president, -vice presi dent and board of directors of the Salem Credit association. Roy , Wissam owns and manages the . bureau and the advisory board consists of Phillip Holmes who Is president ot the association, Ever ett Dotson, vice president, Erma Wilcox, ' secretary-treasurer and the following directors: Edward Sehunke, Ralph Glover J Qeorge Averett and E. V. Patterson. The local association Is affiliat ed with the National Retail Cred it association which Is made bp of "the credit executives of various retail stores over - the United States. The national also owns or controls more than 1100 credit re porting' bureaus Jn the United States, Canada and Europe. An , Interesting phase ot .the local -work la the reports made to and received from ; all parts of the world. Just the other day a cred it bureau In Holland asked for a report oa an Oregon man and the local bureau was able to send it. Present Manager Here Since 1929 The local bureau has been :1a operation nearly 30 years but In December. 1929 It was purchased by Mr. Wuum and consolidated with the Adjustment bureau and the two are now operated as the Salem Retail Credit bureau.- Mr. Wassam . has pointed out that the bureau has two major - functions, to help merchants to keep bad. accounts off their books and to help them get .'good ones oa. '.There are' now . more than 100 Salem. merchants who belong to the bureau and many who do set belong are constantly supplied with credit Information at a nom inal cost, - In addition to the local work the bureau answers from one to 10 Inquiries each day from' ether cities. ; ... The national credit association grants a franchise to only one credit .reporting, bureau In each . city ' and that bureau is usually owned or governed by the mer chants. At the national conven tion held in Toronto in 1930. it was decided to organise a collee tlcm . service department and ap point bureau members to handle these collection ' hat I nff each de partment bonded in a nationally known casualty company. The Sa lem bureau has beenappolnted as the official collection bureau for A Freddie Jeahnet's SHORT-TERM WITH 100. ENTERTAINERS of Brains, Skill and Endurance STATE FAIRGROUNDS , AGRICULTURAL' PAVILION 1 Thrilling, Sensational, Spectacular ' : 12 Noon lo 12 lVlidriigKt I O- Motorists know there are plenty of drivers that . The locomotivo straddled three sets of rails .before "hogf the highways, but here's a case -where a Penn- T it came to rest with Its nose shored Into an em sylvan ia train thoroughly held up traffic between I bankment. No one was Injured, but It took wreck New f York and Washington at Baltimore when It I ers three hours to ret things straightened out. Note hogged a great dea mere than its share ef tracks. I hew the tender and ears are exiss-croesed ever rails. IV. II. MOW MEETING AT S. F. i! - i A Krone of ox-Willamette stu dents attending summer, school at the University of California and at ' Stafa ford university enjoyed a reunion last Sunday in Golden Gate park, San Francisco. Topics discussed, according to. Mrs. Verne D. Bain of: Woodburn who report ed the meeting included "old times, bid ; friends and business." In attendance were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Day and Miriam and Russell; Day, San Francisco: Mr. and. Mrs. Keith Lyman, and Keith Lyman t Jr., Bremerton, Wash., Mr. and Mrs. Ben RIck.ll, Norman and Flora Jean, and Mrs. Rlckll. Sr.. Berkeley. Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. Verne D. Bain, and Ruth Bain, Woodburn; Mrs. Lorlel Gil lette, Berkeley. Other students Invited for the day who were unable to attend were Mr. and Mrs. Lestle Sparks and daughter, Salem; Mr. and Mrs. GUrnee Flesh er and daugh ter, Salem; Mr. and Mrs. James Bohle and two sons, Olympia, Wash.; ;Mrs. and Mrs. Verne Fer guson and: Marjorie and Verne Ferguson, Jr., Coqullle; Mr. and Mrs. Bryan McKittrick. Areata. Calif.; j Ralph Rhebock. Seattle, Wash.; Mr. and Mrs. Virgil An derson and . two children, Palo Alto, Calif.; Mr. and Mrs. How ard George and Norman and Gor don George, Cloverdale. Oregon. ' AD CLUB'S SESSION HELD BIG SUCCESS "A wonderful convention. handled more like a school han a convention, commented Gard ner Knapp yesterday on the Pa cific Ad club convention held June 21-25 In Long Beach. Calif. Knapp and Ted Brown were dele gates from, the Salem Ad club. A group ot especially notable speakers- addressed the conven tion, theme for which was: ad vertising speeds up business. The speakers, many of them from the east, indicated their belief that business conditions will Im prove la six months time. . Ksapp, who with Mrs. . Knapp, has . ; Just returned from three weeks spent In southern Califor nia, says toqrlst travel . down there it as heavy as last year, though snot as great as In 1929. More people . are . out . of work there' than here, he found. . As many people as usual seemed i to be spending money at Catallns Island -and similar places, he says. Oil drilling con- rtlnues on Signal hill, hut wells this city. ; I - Out of the activities of the lo cal ' bureau ; has grown the local credit association -which ii now a luncheon club meeting each Wed nesday, i Members of this club are the credit executives ot Salem stores. : i : . T7 i ! . HOGGING THE mGHT.OF-WAY i are- capped as soon as they are brought in, he says. , The . Pacific Advertising Club association voted - xo reaf filiate with, the American Federation of Advertising, bringing , the entire nation under one 'adYertlsinf head, he reports. CUUUCOfHi inflHElElIf Large crowds are attending the sessions of the state convention of Christian : churches' of Oregon at Turner, and cabins and camp ing Quarters on the grounds there are practically all riilea, saiem people who were there yesterday report. The convention opened Tues day night, with Joel Benton, 'for merly of Salem but now of Hepp ner, giving the main address. It will continue through Sunday, being a fire-day convention this year Instead of the usual 10-day session. . CAPTAIN TO BE ELECTED SILVERTON, July z The elec tion of a captain for Co. I., local National Guard unit, will prob ably be held on July 14. It Is said. The local company's late officer. Captain Henry Hutton, died at an Astoria hospital, during the June encampment. The election; Is sub ject to the approval of General George A. White. ON LONG JOURNEY , AMITY, July 2. Mrs. Al New- by and her father, Mr. Green, left this morning for an extended visit with relatives in Tennessee. They will also visit other places of In terest while gone. EUctrie lighting Modern plumbing Automatic hot ' tvater Electric range Electric refrigent-' tion I' CENI11L ELSC. TIIC 1EFUCERATOK Saves work eed wecry Gaarantee4 3 yean. Trouble-proof, service. . tree. All i HOTPOINT Oft WKSTII C HOUSE CLECTXIC mANGK IS'o ftasse, soot or fumes. AatomaUo economicaL Iumcrous sizes, prices. EOTPOcrr Eixcnuc WATER HEATEa liot water instsatlr for any room. IastaUed us kitcn ea or basexment. - Many sises, models, prices. PORTLAND GENERAll ELECTRIC COMPANY -X n'- - - i TAXPAYERS LEAGUE At a meeting of the taxpayers league of the county Thursday at the chamber of commerce dele gates were chosen to go to Me- MlnnvWe. on Saturday, July 11, to help organise a state taxpay ers league. . i The delegates chosen were: Henry Zorn, Aurora; W. H. Stev ens, Gervais; i s. Lamoert, stay- ton; 8. J. Smith. St. Paul; -J. Ramage. Woodburn; R. Berning, Mt. Angel; Fred Toose, Sr., Sa lem; Ed Porter, Sllverton; R. C. Day, Jefferson. . . ' SAVE YOUR EYES Have a scientific measurement of your sight Our scientific optom etry; assures cor rect lenses. Examination without charge or obligation. tea GROUP MEETS HERE heck YOUR kitchen e against these modern specifications GOMPAHE yonr kitchen with this list of modern conveniences. ' Check those you have those you . need. - Yonr kitchen can never be truly modern as long as you tolerate the fast and bother of old -fashioned methods of heating water, refriger ation or cooking. - -.... ! A new Hotrjoint Electric Water; Heater keeps instant hot Water, on tap always. - It is safe, clean and - costs little to operate., 1 ; A General Electric Refrigerator keeps fresh foods or left-overs fresh, crisp and tasty. It is econom ical actually pays its own way in , the food it saves. - - A Hotpoint Or "Westinghouse Elcc- - trie R-ge docs your cooking while you're away for the afternoon.' It is tnore economical to use than old- fashioned methods of cooking. . Vrite or telephone us today and learn how little it will cost to have a complete electric kitchen. 1 . Small Down Payment Atk about our easy monthly pay tnent plan. You tall be $urprised to learn how easy it it to buy these convenances . Pepco offices in Portland, Salem Jlillsboro, Gresham, . Oregon City, St. Helens, SUverton, Ore-j : gon and VaneouTer, Washingtoai E Remediable Condition Heads Jo Apoplexy and Other 7 Dangers, Pointed Slsh blood pressure Is the real cause of many of; the deaths due to a ' "stroke. In the beginning the disease Is "not so dangerous but It becomes, a menace to health through Inattention. High blood pressure Is. usually the cause for those rather common reports of death from a; stroke of apoplexy. v ' The educational ' committee of the Polk-Yamhlll-Marlon Medical, society and the Marion-Polk-Ym hill. Dental society In Its weekly bulletin declares that prompt at tention can keep people from the dangers of high, blood pressure. -"In reality the condition Is not so much, a disease of the heart as It Is an exhausted state of the organ broncht on by the ex cessive work necessary, to main tain : the circulation in the pres ence of Increased pressure In the arteries," declares, the bulletin. "High blood pressure may ' bring; on a hardened condition of the ar teries which weakens them so that under a particularly hard stress a small vessel in the brain may give way and the Individual has what Is known as an apoplectic stroke.' ' .- r -It the kidneys are not already diseased and the initial cause of CAUSE OESTRD (E GOSSARD FOUNDATIONS . . "i i 1 . I I . I " ' I 2 I I ' 1 ' I JANTZEN fHWBOIING SUITS FOR night 6:00 P. M. and: Will Remain Uosed - ; .' UntU Monday. : hi - : V LOSE WAY, BUT FLY ATLANTIC J After almost being- riven up as lost at sea. Otto HHlIr (left), photor rapher ef liberty, N. and Us pilot, Hol-er Hoiriis (riM) , landed : safely at JCref eld, Germany-, after losing their bearings over Spain i and rrance. After hoppinr off from Kref eld for Copenhagen, their destination from New York, the pair landed again at Bremen,: ex- ! hausted from their gruelinr nifht. The men are shown shaking hands ' just before their take-off from New York. , . ----- i the high blood pressure, they also may - become- deranged. . leading eventually' to a fatal outcome by Blight's disease. High blood pres sure with normal kidneys may be -i----- MUNSING W Sfl t V ' 'I PAJAMAS ,7 :' present for many years but high blood - pressure associated with kidney disease Is a serious matter. . "Thus, high blood pressure, nn rellered, leads after years to one EAR UNDIES IS HERE! and with it . . . THIS SALE OF JfJlIers have arranged a biff ffroup of ailk dresses for this occasion that are far better than the ordinary, fashions selling at this price or even J15.00. There are many dresses featured in the group that were priced to sell at $25.00. In these yon Q uat ity, . D esig n , . . Tailoring There are plain crepes and printed crepes . . . Geor gettes and chiffons. . , There are greens that go perfectly . . . adorable ' . . taris . . reds . browns in vivid hues. Shop this frock showing to day and choose VALUE at the $11 mark. j m k ---VT 1 7TT XT' "DTT T Yes, Barnacle Bill the sailor .... .White, wide legged pajamas with rope to tie into a sailor's knot ... and a biff red. lobster or a bright blue anchor as a trouser decora- These are one-piece smartly fitted models of white linene with fast color insignia. A sailor collar and a typical "Gob' trow. .W OMEN HERE TAX TMEI IS DEUIMLY Sfffi Sheriff O. D. Bower has turned over 1930 .taxes totaling- SS31, 840.08. considerably less than . halt the 2,02 6,4 61 total, accord ing to senl-annuil report filed with the eouaty 'clerk, t Durins the . past six ' months, 1929 taxes in sum of SU4.844.63 hare come In. ' (J :v "Other back taxes are reported In as follows: 1922 - tax rolls. 120.22; 1923 flSS.SSr 1924, IJ.349.77"; 1925, 1399.95; 192, $1,208.88; f2.72S.S2; 1928, $10.- 81.42. . . ' : , of three . disastrous terminations, an exhausted heart, an apoplectic stroke, or death from chronic kid ney disease. i "No one knows just wnat is tne cause " of - high blood pressure. , Manv causes have been s arrested such as excesslTe meat eatlnr, ex- cesslve coffee, tea, or alcoholics. Infected teeth and tonsils, consti pation, heart disease, overweight. and a host ef others but it is doubtful if any of these haye any- . thing to do with the Initial estab- llshment ef high blood pressure. ' There is a normal increase a blood pressure with an Increase of age. One orten nears . mat we; blood pressure should be one nun-? 1 A ta Tln one's are this Is a rough estimate at best and does 3 not generally hold arter as to t years." , s ; A w win iV HOLEPROOF- HOSIERY get - J"frV I EXCLT7SIVELYI V I S I T -GD7T SHOP" FOR PICNIC OR H0LI-' DAY CONVENIENCES! D i : i 7 -; ; f