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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.
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to Furnish th .
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Funeral Horn
'vriih Beautiful -Yal
Hardware
and Hereby f
" Xxtend Best v
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fixe Fufure
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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;
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Ladd Funeral j
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Plumbing end Lawn -
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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
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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 ' ".
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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
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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. . -
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visit our new home 4uring our
at your convenience.
THOMAS-W. LADD
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During t Open Housa , Period)
Congratulations
to
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Hoojting
and
Air-Conditioning
Installed by
Day Healing Co.
Speclallxed Heating
339 N. Commercial St,
-Kxons) 4822
Salem, Oregon
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General Contractors
Sal
em,
Ore.
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