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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon Sundar Morning. December , 1951
Stockholders to Gather in
Portland Monday, Vote
On Reorganizing
MODERN OIL PIPE-LINES TRAVERSE COUNTRY ONCB
ROAMED BY IPREHISTUKIU MUIN&ikks
(CorttlaiKd from ptw II
pfre corporation la Its present
hand.
. Many Stockholders !
Oppose Officers
The meeting has been called In
;. the elaborate quarters of the Em-
i ptre company in the Terminal
Sales building. Observers there-!
this week reported that the dust
of idleness had fallen upon many
of the expensive desks over which
Empire conducted its promotion
earlier in the year. Keller is no
longer with the company. Office
assistants hare been dismissed.
Only a few stenographers and spe
cial aadltors working for Clancy
were to be seen about the offices
several days this week.
How hot a battle will be waged
at the meeting is a matter of con
jecture. Reports coming to this
newspaper Indicate that many
stockholders are prepared to reg
ister rigorous oral protest against
the methods Empire officers used
la promoting the enterprise.
Clancy has stated again that he Is
willing to devote two years of his
time without charge to recon
structing the Empire corporation.
Clancy proposes to raisa entirely
new money and to bring an entire
ly' new. efficient personnel to run
an Oregon-owned insurance and
casualty company.
Grand Jury Will
Rcrame its Probe
Tuesday morning at 1 o'clock
the Marion county grand Jury will
resume Its investigation of Em
pire's affairs. John H. Carson, dis
trict attorney, said yesterday that
be might again call Mark D. Mc
Callister, former state corporation
commissioner, before the grand
Jury. Some stockholders la at
tendance at the Portland meeting
will also be subpoenaed.
Carson, said that any action
taken In Portland tomorrow lead
ing tovards reorganization would
have no effect whatever oa the
grand Jury investigatioa. He said
the grand Jury was Interested
solely in the matter of the Oregon
law and whether or not it had
been violated by the Empire or
ganizers and officers. "Judge Mc
Mahan ordered this investiga
tion." Carson said. "It Is my in
tention to place all the evidence
before the grand Jury."
Hearings Will End
This Week. Belief
The district attorney said he
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A sap of thousands of years la
raniici In U-3 course of Just a few
feet where tho pipe lines of the
General Petroleum Corporation
cross the asphalt pit excavations
made by the University of Califor
nia at McKittrlck.
For more than a decade the Uni
versity palsontologists have delved
into this pit. finding and patiently
piecing together bones, teeth and
occasional bits of hair, and have re
constructed for today's visualiza
tion something of what existed in
the distant past.
There are no historic records to
go by, no documents from which to
work; only a few bones, tree trunks,
leaves and similar things to reveal
to us what is known as the Pleisto
cene age, when the world was
almost entirely covered with snow
and ice which later receded enough
to permit of animal and plant life.
Samples of these were recently
brought into the home oQce and
presented to Ralph G. Bowman, As
sistant General Sales Manager of
General Petroleum Corporation, re
finers and marketers of Violet Ray
gasoline and Socony Motor Oil.
Great beasts and great birds,
which we know no more, as well as
many whose progeny still are with
us, existed in that vicinity in pre
historic days; and at the Los Ange
les museum, as weU as at other
museums, the reconstructed skele
tons and restored forma may bow
be seen.
At McKittrick, surrounded by oQ
fields and traversed by the General
Petroleum pipe lines, is a pit of
asphalt, similar to those in the fa
mous La Brea pita which have
yielded so many bones and so much
Information, and at Carpinteria. A
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lure and a death trap, each one of
these pits has caught and preserved
for thousands of years, part of
skeletons, particularly of those ani
mals which prey on others. Prob
ably at first catching only the
weaker or more unwary animals, It
later got more than its share of the
predatory beasts who went into tne
pit to devour those already caught,
attracted by their cries of distress.
It is one of the few places where
nature shows a preponderance of
predatory animals and birds and
this is the reason.
The list of beasts and birds found
at McKittrick and La Brea includes
bears, skunks, weasels, badgers,
wolves, coyotes, foxes, rats, rabbits,
peccaries, camels, deer, antelope,
buffalo, horses, tapirs, sloths, sabre
tooth cats, lions, mastodons and
elephants, aU existing in a wild
state, because there was no man to
tame them, most of them preying
on each other. Some of these ani
mals are known no mora and etfll
Others exist today Wt not in this
part of ths world.
Among ths birds, ths most strik
ing is ths teratornls, now extinct
but htarlng a modern name created
for it, meaning "great vulture, be
cause it is ths largest flying bird
recorded, apparently averaging
50 greater in atxe than the mod
ern condor. It was originally found
only at McKittrlck and La Brea,
but its bones recently have been
excavated In Florida.
The fossilized remains of grebes,
storks, geese, falcons, cranes, plov
ers, pigeons, doves, cuckoos, owls,
woodpeckers and sparrows have
also been found in these pits. In
addition have been found evidences
of reptiles and some plant life, giv
ing, to the initiated, a fair picture
of bird and animal life at that time.
It la even possible to reconstruct.
to some extent, the topography of
water and plant conditions, ana
many of the habits of the animals
then existing. It la easy to beueva
that the work of men studying
these conditions Is anything but
dry, even though it may not have
the same Incentive as the work of
men who are taking oil from the
depths of the earth and making it
usable for mankind.
Mr. Bowman was given valuable
Information on this subject by Dr.
Loye Miller of the University of
California at Los Angeles, Dr. W.
A. Bryan and Dr. J. A. Corns tock
of the Los Angeles Museum, and
Dr. Chester Stock of California
Tech. Many of the pictures of re
stored animals and birds were made
possible by the competent work of
Dr. Robert Ridgeway, noted paleontologist.
Gain Accounted for in big
Advance of : Utilities;
Total $48,114,541
( Continued from cac t)
state taxes levied and collected la
Marlon county.
Under ths Oregon law. all as
sessments apon utilities are made
by the state tax commlxaloa. which
first evaluates utilities on an ac
tual valuation and then deter
mines the ratio between Actual
and assessed value la each county
la the state. This ratio Is made
to correspond to the) ratio adopted
by the tax commission in equal
lxing all other valuations made in
the various counties.
Increased Values
Of Utilities Shown ;
The assessed value of Marlon
county's utilities, compared on the
1IS1 assessment, to the previous
year, follows:
Steam railroads, 12.905,610.40,
$2,849,481.40; electric ralUoad.
I5S2.997.S5, 1522.011.95; rail
road ear companies, $82,357.51,
I82.C9C.41; electric light and
power companies and Joint water,
gas and electric utilities. $1,698,
971.22, ll.852.817.4C; water and
gas companies. I705.C18. $890,
232,59; express companies, $7,
467.CC, $7,566.60; telegraph com
panies, $102,259.44, $107,476.14:
telephone companies, $1,414,
407.42, $1,876,566.66; totals. $7,
250.796.21. $8,189,841.06.
The actual value of utilities In
the county In 1921 was set at
$16,452,620 by the state tax com
mission. The value tor 1929 was
$12,612,685.
Assessed Valuations for Marion County for
4931, Clasfified and Compared to
Values Assessed in 1930
. daasiflcatipn of Property
Acres lands -
Improvements, lands.
Town, city lots -
Improvements, lots:.-
Improvements, lands.
tagging roads, stock-.
Steamboats, engines,
machinery
Merchandise
Fanning implements
Hotel, office furniture.
Homes - Mules.
Cattle
Sheep - Goats.
Swine ,
Dogs
Poultry
1931
Value
18,69 1280
3,693,490
553,220
8,814,250
89,955
117,400
1,247,840
1,720,220
246,245
873,050
149,500
377,150
71,550
28300
310
15,340
1950 Value
Per Unit
$ 18394,460
3,730,140
5,299,690
8,871,490
275,635
129,095
1353,625
1392375
163385
387,735
167355
435,175
109,710
23,050
170
Total value of taxable prop- t
, exty as finally equalized
by the county board of
equalization S 40,924,600
Utility assessments in county 8,189341
S 41,642,940
7,350,796
Total
$49,114,441 $48,993,736
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TO 09T1 BELIEF
Not until industry and capital
Join in a movement for better
thought all the testimony would J times wm permanent relief for
h n hv Sitardav. It has not yet unemployment be forthcoming. J.
been determined whetker Judge M. Devers, attorney for the state
o. p. Roahow. nresident of tie aigjiway eeparunant, ieciarea
KmnirA Mvrnor&tlon. -wUl aunear yesterday In a letter to Governor
before the fraud jury. Under the
law Carson cannot compel any
Individuals to testify against
tttn indictments might be
brought without thus forfeiting
Julius Meier which was released
to the public. Although the million-dollar
highway emergency
program Is playing an Important
part la relief it is a small palll-
store space which the Metropoli
tan 8tore of Delaware Is Quittlmg,
according to an unauthentlcated
report from an authority close to
the situation.
As eight of the Metropolitan
stores on the coast are said to
be on the verge of being closed
out, it is believed that these may
be taken over by the entering
eastern concern. The Metropolitan
store here has been doing busi
ness in Quarters ' In the Oregon
building, one of the largest store
floor spaces in the city and has a
Jo-year lease on the store space
from Hawkins and Roberts.
the Jury's right to return iadlct-1 tlTe, Devers indicated.
meats against such persons. J His report showed that approz-
Barnett H. Goldstein, special I imatoly 18) men are now em-
prosecutor for the state corpor-1 ployed In the state nnder the
atlon department, will return to I emergency program. On a rotat-
Salem on Tuesday to continue 1 ing basis this means that more
witb District Attorney Carson in
the investigation of the Empire's
affairs.
The investigation to date has
eeatered chiefly en the application
of the company for a permit to
sell stock. At the time this ap
plication was filed, officers of the
company signed affidavits that
they paid $10.00 ft apiece in cash.
An auditor ox the state corpora-
than 720 men actually are at
werk one week in four, at a wage
of $1S per month
Devers said his reports indicat
ed that the registration lists are
growing la most o the counties.
and that the peak of unemploy
ment win not be reached until
sometime in January.
"When one realises." Devers
statement read, "that there are
Uoa commission later found that I approximately 40,000 unemployed
the officers paid only $2000 or
less Individually in cash.
JHSE SURVEY OF
BIN PHD
men in the ; state and that each
has an average of three depen
dents, it is tragically evident that
a serious condition still prevails
Social Horn at
Y. Planned For
This Afternoon
BflYLES KILLED AS
RECORD IN GRASP
CONGRESS
SESSION
IILNMIO
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engineers reported against heavy
improvements in the channel.
Mont Show Tonnage
To Warrant Expense
Now. there is another concerted
action up and down the valley for
canalization of the Willamette as
far south as Eugene. At present
the estimate on cost of canal iza.
Uoa Is about $17,000,000. The
groups will have to show the con
gressional river and harbor com-
.tnittee that tonnage of movement
on ie river wm warrant sue a ex
penditure.
with the congressional asnro-
priatlon In the background, the (Maurice Dean of Willamette unl
local ehamber Is vrdnc every Sa-1 Terslty.
lem user of the river to rive care-1 Mrs. W. E. Anderson and Mrs.
tsl attention to the estimated tu-1 Otto K. Pantee have arranged for
tuns development of ! rear-around I the program. Mtea Elisabeth Lord
shipments as welt as the actual n Miss Edith Schryver have
tennace which has cone in and I Planned the refreshments. Mrs.
raui a. Wallace and Miss Mabel
P. Robertson win serve.
The first of the Sunday social
hours for young men and wo
men of the City will be held at
the T. M. C. A. at 4 o'clock this
afternoon. The program will In
clude vocal and instrumental se
lections, group singing and refreshments.
The musical entertainment will
be given by the striur trio of the
Salem 8ympbony orchestra and
Karl Potter, tenor. The personnel
of the trio is: Delbert Jepsen, vio
lin: Chester McCain, 'cello, and
Emery Hobson, piano. Group
singing will be. directed by Pro
fessor Cameron Marshall and
DETROIT. . Dec 5 (API
With the record he has persistent
ly sought during the last month
almost within his grasp. Lowell
R. Baylea. Springfield, Mass., fli
er, crashed to his death at the
Wayne county airport today while
traveling at anestlmated speed of
soo miles an hour.
Bayles was only 75 feet above
ground, streaking over the 1.8
mile course when the plane dived
in a short arc and struck the
ground, landing on its back.
The plane burst into flames.
Bayles body was found several
feet from the wreckage, a column
of smoke rising from his clothing.
He apparently had been killed in
stantly. The wreckage of the
piane. strewn along the course,
burned for some minutes.
WASHINGTON. Deo. I. (AP)
A new congress, divided against
itself and encircled by uncertain
ties, will begin its sessions Mon
day under a tension keyed to the
restlessness of these troubled
times.
A program of prosperity, with
tax revision and bank reforms at
Its head, will be the goal of legis
lative effort. Politics and prohibi
tion will provide the effervescence
for unceasing oratory. Halr's
breadth party majorities will
make every forward step a tedious
process of deadlock and compromise.
Unless - fortunes intervene, the
democrats will organise the house
and the republicans tbe senate.
but by delicate margins. The
choice of John N. Garner of Tex
as as democratic speaker was de
pendent tonight on the almost
unanimous turnout of his party
strength.
In the senate, relation of George
H. Moses of New Hampshire as
president pro tempore hinged on
an effort to placate the rebellious
western insurgents.
out la the past
The present annual tonnage is
09.000 on shipments between
Baieta ana roruana, and repre
senting both ways.
Tbe canalisation depends al
most entirely upon prospect of
future development, leaders point
! OUt.
UKS TO
BECOM
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eonoR HMY
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fire bo officials. He said he
, wosM attend the Important board
meetings during the month.
Tomorrow marks . the second
time during 19 SI Marks has
served as governor. He was chief
executive for several days last
summer while Governor -Meier
was la Saa Francisco.-'i
Marks, unlike Ralph Hamilton.
Bend- attorney who was governor
durtae Norblad's absence la the
east, does not smoke a pipe. In
' stead- ha smokes cigars and volun
teered the information to news
men yesterday that he would
bring a liberal supply of his fa-
vorue smoke to the cspttoL '
Child is Burned
To Death; Three
Others Rescued
GOLD BEACH. Ore.. Dec. S
(AP) The three-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Christian Ralph was
burned to death early todav when
fire destroyed the family home at
tiaroor, near here.
The child, asleep on the second
noor, was trapped by tbe fire
which started from an overheated
kitchen stove.
Boys Held For
Investigation
INDEPENDENCE, Dec. 5
(Special) Four Independence
boys are being held In the Jail at
Dallas for Investigation in con
nection with the burglary of the
Monamgo house Thanksgiving
night while the family was spend
ing the holiday at Medford. They
were taken into custody by Sher
iff Hooker.
The boys, all of high school age.
are Henry Genaman, Wilbur Hill
Delbert Scrafford and Maynard
Grooms.
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and the Army, with other local
groups, being the logical agency
to care for these unfortunate per
sons.
Last year the Army workers.
through the aid of the Statesman-
Army Good Will Fund, sent out
large baskets to 120 families.
This year, the adjutant estimates.
ft will be fortunate if the num
ber is any under 150 families.
"While the boxes and baskets
are Christmas tokens". Adjutant
Parsons said, "We send sufficient
food and supplies to last from
one to two weeks. The funds are
not used for a big holiday feed
alone."
Pitiful Conditions
Found by Workers
Yesterday the adjutant answer
ed five calls, two of them quite a
distance north of Salem, but all
in Marion county. These are just
a sample of the needs which the
Good Will money will help, and
they are actually cases visited
yesterday:
A home with a woman and two
children, out of food and scan
tily clothed: cold and hungry.
A home where the husband has
been struggling to keep a wife
and three small children fed and
clothed on a bit of work afforded
by the highway emergency pro
gram. But the money and a few
days work do not stretch far
enough, no matter how frugal he
is, he told the adjutant.
Two homes where the men had
found woodcutting jobs, but
could not get to work until they
obtained food and supplies, and
some warm clothing.
The Army helped all those cited
above yesterday.
The soup kitchen at the Armj-
ball, open since October 1, has fed
oa an average SO persons a dsr
WITHOUT JEW
Intimations that the Pacific
highway might well be enlarged
to its proposed S 0-foot width with
out the purchase by Marlon coun
ty of additional right-of-way were
heard about Salem oa Saturday.
Although these suggestions dif
fered as to detalL essentially they
were to the effect tbt paving of
an additional seven feet on each
side of the present 10-foot high
way would leave 15 feet for shoul
ders, ditches and telegraph poles.
Interested individuals believe
this would be sufficient right-of-
way under present conditions and
until heavier traffla should de
mand still farther widening of the
road.
The purchase price of the 40
feet necessary to complete ths pro
posed 100-foot right-of-way was
considered nearly prohibitive by
members of the county court who
discussed the matter yesterday. It
was their contention that Marlon
county taxpayers should not be
further burdened to provide the
extra right-of-way for a state
highway toward which they were
already paying their share of
taxes.
The per cent limitation
amendment, which denies to any
taxing body within tbe state the
right to raise its apportionment
more than per cent over the
amount collected during the pre
vious year, may prove a serious
handicap, since there was a dif
ference of only S4S.O00 between
the amount which could have been
levied and the amount actually
levied last year under the amend
raenL This amount would be insuf
ficient, officials said yesterday, to
secure the desired right-of-way,
although the actual cost of such
a more has not and probably will
cot be computed for several
weeks.
Permits Total
$603; Figure is
Double Lowest
Only fire permits for building:
operations last week were Issued
by the city building inspector,
The estimated cost of the five
jobs, $603, was double the lowest
figure of recent weeks.
The five permits, all for repair
work, were as follows:
Carl A. Wood, dwelling at 712
North Church street. $250; Harry
M. Levy, market at S51 State
street, $200; W. W. Moore, store,
at 230 North Liberty street. $100
S. R. Kennedy, cider plant
! North Capitol street, $38
and H. S. Hughes, dwelling at
945 E street $15.
False Pretense
Charge is Filed
Pansy Fields, alias Mrs. Pansy
Keloff, was arrested by city po
lice at the Leonard hotel yester
day on a charge of obtaining
money under false pretenses.
Three men, who were in com
pany with the woman, according
to Officer Orey O. Coffey, were
held for Investigation. They
were: Jim Robinson, Win Clyde
Castel and Cart Marx Helgerson.
HOT EXCHK '
FOR BOOKS. PLAN
at
Some Districts Have Over
Supply, Some Shortage, :
Stated at Meeting
A county exchange for surplus
textbooks of the 117 school dis
tricts will be installed la the of
fice of Mrs. afary L. Fulkersoa,
county school superintendent, as
result of action taken by the 43
delegates attending the annual
meeting of county school officers
here yesterday.
With changing classes leaving
some districts with a snrptns of
certain books and others witb a
shortage, the exchange will serve
for the mutual benefit of all dis
tricts taking up the plan.
Mrs. Fnlkerson announced last
night that the exchange vould be
put In service as soon as standard
price lists can be prepared.
At the afternoon session. John
S. Marshall of Swegle district was
elected president of the officers
organisation; Henry Torvend of
Bethany district, vice-president,
and Mrs. Fulkerson, reelected
secretary. Grant Murphy Is the
retiring president.
Charles A. Howard, state su
perintendent of public Instruc
tion, addressed the delegates in
the afternoon concerning effi
ciency In school expenditures. He
urged the school officials to
weigh the value of purchases and-
to spend their money only for
items essentially beneficial to the
district.
Free Textbook
Principle Favored
Discussion of free textbooks at
the morning session revealed that
none of the officers was opposed
to the principle. They were
evenly divided on the question of
whether the books should be pur
chased by the districts or by ths
state.
Changes for cross lighting in
the class room and the Impor
tance of pare water for the
pupils was discussed by H. C.
Sinks, county sanita; Inspector.
Final payments on the bond
issue for the new Aumsville
school building were announced
by the delegate from that dis
trict. Other schoolr reported the
Institution of hot lunches and
electric lights.
Liberty announced that Its
community hall, owned by tho
school district, had. been remod
eled. Stayton reported that the Parent-Teacher
association' there is
sponsoring the supplying of milk
to underweight children.
CHURCH TEAMS MEET
All churches entering basketball
teams In the T- Church league
have been requested to send repre
sentatives to a meeting at the Y.
M. C. A. Monday night. Final
checking up on details of organ
isation will be done, states Bob
Boardmao.
WILL SHIP TURKEYS
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore.. Dec.
5. (AP) E. M. Hauser. assist
ant county agent, sail today 2500
turkeys will be shipped to eastern
markets from Klamath Falls De
cember 10. The birds are for the
Christmas market.
North Canton. O., has an or
dinance prohibiting the drilling of
gas wells within the corporate
limits.
Helpful Hint
or
Healthful Living
Boy Scouts to
Get Awards at
Unique Session
One hundred Boy Scouts of
Cascade area are expectM to pre
sent themselves for awards at the
unique honor court to be held in
the hall of representatives at 8
o'clock next Wednesday night.
For the first time In this area,
all of tbe justices of tbe state su
preme court, carbed la their Judi
ciary robes, wm preside at honor
court
A large attendance of parents
and other persons interested In
the Scout program is expected, ac
cording te O. P. West, area executive.
Chain Company
Said Likely to
Buy Store Here
One of the main chain store
systems operating la the eastern
states Is- understood to be con
templating Invading the Pacific
coast and taking over here the
Dresses
That are smart and new
LOWEST
PRICES
$4.74
$6.75
$8.75
$10.75
$12.75
The Little
FrenchShop
Just west of the Court
House -Near
tike Market
A. P. SPHER
Phone T787
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Stat lioa JnctV
Do They lUasi
to You?
Little eomplalats and ailments may
develop to serious Illness. Dont take
say chances.
Always consult your physician at
the first complaint.
We will gladly aad willingly follow
his orders aad fill your prescription
promptly and accurately.
On PreecripUon service Is the best
scttlcc we reader.
US Stmt J. H. TVUctt Phone S11S
$2. 00 a Pair for Youf
Old Shoes
Every day some needy man
comes into our store looking
for a pair of old shoes.
We have devised a plan to
help the needy and give the
men of Salem a real buy on
Florsheim Shoes.
We will giveyou a two dollar
trade-in value on your old
shoes you wear into the store
no matter what size, color
or condition.
FLORSHBSH SHOES MOST STYLES $9.00, SOME
$10.00 WITH $2.00 CREDIT $7.00 and $8.00
3o5
WITH EMMONS
41 8UU Street
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