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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1940)
9 i 'add -Beiris- FreMclhi'Mrmainidy esignii FimiiieFsiI Hill Location Is Distinctive Air-Conditioned Cathedral : .Type Chapel Is Unique V Plan Feature ' Tha Ladd Funeral tome, a new Instltatlon $ here, la announcing jits opening today at its hillside location on South Commercial ; and Ohmarr streets. It is home t owned. . ; . ' "This location, at -the edge of the. city, is a wis and happy ' choice, we feel," the manase - ment said yesterday. "The .en vironment seems especially appro priate and 'fitting, avoiding' ap" it doe 8 the congestion of a down town site." The area ot ' 2 4 acres, eon .venient to tnecjty bus serrlcer Is adjacent to most of thejreme teries of Salem,: the mausoleum and crematorium, which add con venience and quietness, and save confusion of a funeral cortege in downtown traffic. Drlres lead to ample parking jpace, and. a pri vate drive, with entrance to a beautifully furnished family room where the family may have com plete seclusion, has been po- The spacious landscapedgrounds form-a beautiful setting for the building of French Normandy de sign and convey a feeling of qui et dignity and taste, expressing the character of a private home : - An attractive air-conditioned chapel of athedral type adjoins on the south and la fully equip ped with pulpit, pewi and organ A drawing room chapel, furnish ed as a home like living room for small or private funerals, ad joins the main chapel. A special and exclusive feature for the hard of bearing, has been the instal lation, in both the chapel and family room, of individual acous- ticons. Much consideration has been given to make in every de-" tail the Ladd institution an asset to Salem and surrounding terri- torT- , Recognizing tlfc inability of many to make larger expenditures, the Ladd establishment has brought its facilities i within the reach of all, (with the establish ment of a low-cost funeral and the same standard of service for all. Thfs together with the budget plan frees many ' from a heavy burden of expense which they cannot bear. A free booklet, ."A Word In Advance," includes out line of the new Ladd budget plan, - rearrangements, and gen erally what to do in emergency. The directors of the Ladd home said their principal aim would be to offer a friendly, sympathetic service. In addition to the ma terial services made possible by the home structure itself. E. J- Lucas is president oLJhe institution, 3. R. Mnnkers secretary-treasurer and Eddie Ahrens vice president. Thomas Wi Ladd will b the funeral dlreipr and Mrs. Thomas W. Ladd tbft. wom an assistant, who is $&so a li censed embalmer. The Ladds have been associated v. ith the under taking business in the Willamette valley for the past 22 years. Crater Lake Bus Service Retained Public Utilities Commissioner Ormbnd R. Bean, announced Sat urday that an agreement had been reached between Medford citizens and the Crater Lake National Park com pan y whereby Med ford will: continue to enjoy automobile passenger service to the lake, i The company recently advised the commissioner that it would make Its western , terminus at Grants Pass instead of Medford. Under the agreement, reached at recent hearing, the Crater Lak National Park company will handle passengers: through a taxi service to the Intersection ot Sams Valley highway-and Crater lake; 15 miles north of 'Medford and absc rb within the round-trip fare the fare charged by the taxi com pany, , r.y- - '. ; Bonneville Post u Goes to Dittmer PORTLAND. Ore., April -JP) -Dr, William. A. Dittmer, Hawai ian public utilities commission consultant, was named today chief of the Bonneville power adminis tration's planning and marketing division, - - . Administrator. Paul J. Raver said Dittme.f would succeed James I. MetcaJf, who resigned March Is to become consultant for. the securities and exchange commis sion in Washington, DC. I Dittmer will be responsible for the power sales, rate structure and economic planning. W Are Proud to Furnish th . . iNW:Lodd Funeral Horn 'vriih Beautiful -Yal Hardware and Hereby f " Xxtend Best v yisheolDr fixe Fufure Neiv Style of .!., .-L . -v.--" " . : . w '. ' 1 1 1,1 "' .'"" - -. .. - - ' . - ; ' " "'" -:ly: . 1 .. - r V I , X v -. p . - x " L i r y - ' v r''Aj -A - '-r ! ii . ? I : : rr. T lrn IVcnrh KormandT deaian' aivea South Commercial and Otimart cludes a cathedral type chapel. as W, Ladd will be the funeral 50 Prize Money Offered for Best Centennial Poster; Qarence Bates, lis Qiairman of Jiidging Committee With the adoption of'Froni Wilderness to Wonderland" as its offiefal slogan, the Salem-Centennial commission is now ready-to announce a poster contest in which $50 in cash prizes will be offered for the designs best expressing the spir it of the pageant to be held in this cityfuly 31, August VA. Clarence Bates, director of the Salem Art Center and chair man pi tne poster contest com mittee, announces that the com petition will be open toT all resi dents of Marion and Folk coun ties and will close at 5:30 p. m. on May IS. All entries must be delivered to the Salem Art Cen ter, 4 tO North High street, by 5:30 n. mJ on the day or post marked before midnigv.t May ,18, : to be eligible. Interest of high school students in this contest has been added by the offer of a special junior prise of $5 for persons under 18 years of 'age. The Junior entries also are eMgible for the other prizes which are: first. 25; second, 15; and third, $5. Members of the poster contest committee who will act as Judges are Clarence Bates, chairman; Mrs. Esther Allen, secretary; Miss Constance Fowler; Byron Lieuallen and O. S. Olson. The eoraaetittee has adopted simple rules for the contest. Each poster must contain the Centennial slo gan, "From Wilderness to Won derland," the place and dates of the celebration. They mast be 11 by 17 Inches in size and adapted for a vertical mount. The com mittee requests the entries . be made on heavy cardboard for ex hibition, in store windows. ' . - ; All posters must be worked In flat colors, and when submitted forjudging must have attached a sealed envelope containing the name and address of the contest ant. The age should be given if the poster has been designed by a person .under 18. i The judging will take into ion slderatlon the originality off the Idea, the appeal to- the public eyei (sales value), artistic merit, sim plicity and adaptability to the oc casion.: .: , Entries should, visualize the spirit of the Salem Centennial which celebrates 100 years of progress since Jason Lee came to rthe Oregon country and estab lished a mission and Indian school on the banks of the Willamette river. When he ' set up his saw and grist mill on the banks of the mill stream in 1840 on a pla teau overlooking the Willamette, Jason Lee founded the city, which later waf to become the capital of Oregon and a symbol of prog ress, . - Retail Business , Increase Shown PORTLAND, April 13-P-Dun's Business Reriew said today Portland area; retail trade for the year to date was up 5 to 10 per cent, despite slackening the last two weeks. .; ported for wholesale colIectionsJ ramber production Is moderately ahead of last iyear'a volume and orders ; exceed shipments. The shipping situation has not im proved 27,000 Pounds of Hops Under Contract at 21c Oregon CitT. Aoril lS-ifv- Three hop contracts were filftd here today ; by S. S. Stiner. Inc. New Tork buyer, each listing: a Price of 21 cents. They were for purchases of 10.600 : pounds from Abbe and Erne Johnson, Can by; 5000 pounds "from Louis Van De Mortele, Aurora; 12.000 pounds from L. Rlnehart and Sons, Canby. : - , ; , - j - Best Wishes r:-: h to ihey'c:C-y; f - - . - Ladd Funeral j t Homo : i : W Furnished tbe j Plumbing end Lawn - Sprinkling Srtem - i LET US FIGURE ' ON YOUR NEXT ; y JOB ; f T I - . L InflMwIlll ' "- - -i C3S .Cheznekelx L J . ' Sclemii Ore. M " ' Funeral Home Structure Opens " dUUntiTe lr to the Bew Ladd streets on a sloping hillside site. 1 he Tbntlcling was designed by R director In cnarge. Paper's Criticism Of Meet Resented SPOKANE, Wash., April 1 S. CP) After reading aloud an ex cerpt from an editorial published by a , Spokane newspaper, the Spokesman-Review, criticizing the school of conservation philosophy as "foreign to every ideal upon which America was founded," Dr. Frank Miller Chapman of Wash ington commented today: 1 " guess free discussion Is a pernicious thing." Dr. Chapman, who was to have spoken as a representative of the bureau of agricultural economics at the four-day school's final ses sion, sat down ' without farther comment. - The editorial asserted ' that speakers had said "that bureau cratic methods must ! be Adopted to carry out the new deal pro gram of restriction and cntroL" Linfield Speakers Win Many Honors ROCK HILLS, SC. April 13-tfl3) -Winners of the fourth .annual eastern forensic tournament here were announced late today, . , They included: . .1 ; Oratory champions .Stewart Simon, University of Florida, and Frances J Anderson, JJnlield eol lege, Oregon. , ;' ' f ? - Extemporaneous champions Tom McCutcheon, South Carollno, and Norma Justin, Linfield col lege. ' ' , ' Best debate teams Girls, Lin field college, Florida state, Mich igan. Toledo, Alabama; , boys, Springfield (Missouri), New York university, Duke, University of Cincinnati, Emory and Hen r y, Linfield, Maryland Shepherd. Sani praetor Sentenced : For Death of Nyssa Girl After Illegal Operation , SEATTLE. April l3-3$-Ber-tram Hollande, 60. Seattle sanl- practic ' physician, was sentenced to not more than 20 years In the state penitentiary Friday for the death of 19-year-old Donna Fae Correll, formerly of Nyssa, Ore., and Nampa, Idaho. i . The dr unless practitioner pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge. The girl was found dead In his office after an Illegal op- ertlon yebrary.a8 Gongr'atulations to the : i . . .4 .': . " t " .hi-: - i. ? y . r. :- ; ; - 1 - Ladd Funeral Home Vicslio & Funeral home, openinz today -at In keeping, the Interior lesijrn In U. Dobeu, Salem arciutecu 'A nom . Spring Loises out To two Extremes (By the Associated Press) Spring was a double loser In a battle of seasons Friday. ' Winter returned to the deep south tor an unwelcome visit, leaving a trail ot nipped fruit buds from the Rocky mountains to the Alleghenies. 1 r But' summer took over on the Pacific coast. Southern Cali fornia experienced its first heat wave of the season, and new rec ord high temperatures for the day was posted at Seattle.-. Midwestern 'weather moderated as a cold mass which produced many April records rolled on to the gulf coast. ' New Orleans fired up against a predicted minimum of 35 to 39 degrees. The coldest recorded April temperature there was 38 degrees set April 2, 1881: Near- freezing l weather was expected almost to the gulf from Texas to western Florida. j - Sons of Norway ; Choose Officers M -! ' - - t- PORTLAND. Ore., April 13P) -Delegates to the biennial Sons of Norway convention today reelect ed Hans M. Bne of Astoria pres ident of district No. 2. ' The dis trict Includes the Pacific coast from southern California to Alas ka. !-;' ;. , - Other officers reelected were IV Gronning. Oakland, . Calif., vice president; A. J. Haaheim, New Westminster, BC, Judge, -and H. R. Olsen, Seattle, secretary. B. A. Johannesen, Aberdeen, was elect ed treasurer. t. " ; L -' i The Pacific coast grand lodge ot the Daughters of Norway eleet- ea Airs, uyaa vnrisionersen, kt erett, president; Mrs. Petra Wes tre, San Francisco, vice-president; Jlni Thrine Jonnsen, Seattle, re elected secretary; Mrs. Merit Kop perstad, Seattle, elected, treasurer. We Are Happy to Play ' Out. Part, in Furnisliing the Draperies for the New -t Ladd Funeral Homo Fred C. Sullivan 487 Court SL Hannaman Riverview Acres New SiibdivisioiQ Spong's Landing Area Is Deyeloped; House I Built in 1062 "Riverview Acres, Eafem'a newest suburban development, lo cated; six miles north o .Salem, at what was once the famous his toric Spong's Landing, has recent ly oeen purchased and divided by Myrton Moore, local real estate dealer. Into two and one-half acre tracts suitable for subsistence farming. . . ,. , : Spong'f Landing, rich In tradi tion of early Oregon r hlstorv. was one of the first steamboat land ings on the Wll-amette.! river south of Oreeon CltT! and wa known throughout the entire northwest. During the recent de velopment It became Necessary to raze the old building' which con stituted the original home of the Spong Jamily, in doing sc - In-' terestlng dates were noted, ahowT Ing that the house was I con structed in 1862, the mill work having been ! shipped -from Port land by boat, Song'g Landing, which , later became Woodland Park, popular summer resort; and picnic grounds for Salem and vi cinity for many years. ; . Myrton Moore reports that this type a of development : fills the need of the average family which may keep a cow, a few chickens, raise a family garden and being close to Salem, have a market for surplus produce. The response this subdivision Is meeting with, more than, bears out Mr. Moore's confidence in the community, he declared. - t Alcatraz Escapee S May Be Man Who Swallows Poison DENVER. Anril 12.WJPV-A Jead" that a 14-year-old man who swallowed poison last night may be Ralph Roe. Alcatrax es capee, who being cheeked tonight oy jjetecure Sam Finnie. --i The man, who gave the name Elmer. Wesson. ,. swallowed . the poison as Detective Finnie and John Wells questioned him about a report that he was Roe. ' - xi e swauowea tne potion, tnen You You T told the detectives he dldnt want to be returned to! Walla Walla, Washv penitentiary for parole violation. ' r . . Under gnard and In critical condition at Denver General hos pital, the man; could not be Ques tioned further today. Finnie will have r his fingerpHnU checked with those of Roe. the desperado who with Theodore Cole fled A 1- catras to a fog December 17, Farmer Dies or Injuries: Darted in Front of Truck 1 OREGON CITY. Ore., April 12 -i-'Pr-Orvllle Greenslitt, 47. Bea- yercreek . rsrmer, tiled tonight of a punctured lung suffered this morning". I Greenslltt, Deputy Sheriff Wil- us Jioenier said, darted in front or a truck in an effort to reach nis norses which had become frightened, ; Congratulations To the New Ladd Funerdl Homo Ve Are Pleased to Have Completely Furnished TKis ew Home with F eriod 'Furniture. Imperial ' Furniture 467 G)urt St. k i ' ". lo A jN The Open House Period of the New Ljadd Home Local 2650 S. (2 Blocks Beyond ;S. INVITATION are cordially invited to Open House Period, April ,14th to April 23rd, inclusive. may feel free to visij us id SUNDAY ;;Throiah :tuesddy April:23 ii -1 Visitors Welcome: at ; Any Time (No Services to Be Conducted ' SEE THIS! "COMPLETELY MODERN ! AIR-CONDITIONED FUNERAL HOME TODAY AND THROUGHOUT THE WEEK add Funeral Home 2G30 S. Commercial Street Insurance Man Is - Victim of Cave-in EVERETT, Wash April 13-()-Frsnt!e volunteers dug hope lessly.' tonight for a prominent Seattle Insurance executive1 who was burled alive late today when the well at his summer home near here caved in. - . " - Everett Fladd, about 40, of the Prudentla, Insurance company of fice in Seattle, ws believed burled under at least SO feet of dirt and -ock. The tragedy oc curred at .the Norma beach resort where Fladd, his wife and young son had gone to re-open . their summer place,-' ' A 'v. .'. A well digger A. J. Erickson. said Fladd was aiding him In im proving - the ' ; well when Fladd slipped and fell about 20 feet to the bottom where the water was six feet" deep. . - Salem, Ore. o Z3 O U,N G I N G Owned Funeral ''!;.-. .I'- ' ' 'i Commercial Street Commercial - Bus Lines) 1 1 ' - visit our new home 4uring our at your convenience. THOMAS-W. LADD APRIL 1A During t Open Housa , Period) Congratulations to 9 Hoojting and Air-Conditioning Installed by Day Healing Co. Speclallxed Heating 339 N. Commercial St, -Kxons) 4822 Salem, Oregon tK General Contractors Sal em, Ore. lay L. Farmer .204 N,.Coramercicil . ...