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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1941)
PAGE CGIIT Th 03IGOH STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon. Sunday Momina. May 4. 1341 West Salem Boys of One Oliver Respo Of Woodworkers Workshop 71 T v fli Tin man s 111 G rows ever Idea G.Hughsonlsj nsible for.Shop Miiiimalic Construction Taught by Expert Carpenter; Plan Backed by Lumber Groups of State !xX: By FRANK HERBERT - The rasping sound of a saw, the snick of a plane, the.thudding puunu vi nammers ana nura or motor-driven machinery create an aura oi industry about a neat, white frame building near the 1 X A X 1 J ' a " ' ... . I jmer-rcoumy Driage on .agewater drive, West Salem. iJesiae tne door hangs a sign,. I i H t TWest Salem Bots Workshon " and through wide widows can be seen the - boys students at the local school and 4-H club members . creating the noise that signifies toil on projects ranging from plain tie racks to complicated miniature houses. Founder's Idea Grows Behind this busy scene lies, an idea, an idea that grew in the mind of a man who knows and t: loves boys. That man is Oliver G Hughson, field representative of the.Oregon Building Congress, and . the idea is . . that boys can be taught carpentering, and more specifically, the elements of build mg, tnrough actual construction work not on full sized houses but on miniatures put together from scraps of lumber usually thrown away, i These miniatures, embodying all ine principles of full-size construc tion, have become a type of monu ment to Hughson's efforts to see his idea take concrete form. . Minimalic construction, as it is called, first saw the lirht in youthful eyes at Ilayesville, Ore., W 1933. This "4-H club build ing construction project," as it . was then ; known, . inaugurated under manual instruction by II. a xnoore, was the first of its type In the United State, according- to uunson. it Is still being per . ated. : '. .)..- With thisproject as a start and its success as evidence of his idea's practical nature, Hughson backed by the West Coast Lumberman's association, the Western Pine as sociation, the Douglas Fir Plywood association; The Willamette Val ley Lumberman's association and numerous individual business firm s s p r e a d similar units throughout Oregon. Today it is a iuu time job, his job, to travel over the state organizing new "con su-ucuon projects and checking wv&e aireaay started. Outgrowth of Work - west saiem's boys workshop, housing for which was completed jast summer under the supervision of Tom Dalke, local 4-H leader, Was a direct outgrowth of Hugh son's work. He sowed the seed of ms iaea in the minds of Jocal youth workers and stayed to see " trough. The idea struck on jeriue sou. Land for the building, com Plete with an option to extend as long as the project exists, was donated by Earl" C. Burke. Others, such as Principal Leigh ton Dashlell of the local school, donated their time and energies. Local businesses gave freely of equipment, lumber and money. Today it Is a community asset. Administered by a three-man committee composed of Dashiell as general manager, Dalke in charge uuuaing problems and Elmer C Cook, West Salem justice of the peace, 10 weigh all legal matters, the boys workshop operates as an integral unit in the local educa tion program. - In addition to 4-H Hulk' bers, the shop has an enrollment oi n boys drawn from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the west balem school. Instruction, is provided by Charles Denham, a Razzle-Dazzle From Rugged Individuals ! NEW YORK, May 3 When a man sits' in a pasture for 24 hours observing the operations , of a cow, it may not be' news, but it at least earns a place in your screwy news periodical portrait-gallery of rugged indi vidualists. . ' So here's a nylon nosegay to Keith Kennedy, an indefatigable scholar from not-so-far-above Cayuga's waters at Cornell, who circuited the clock the other day chasing a bovine's by-play, to report that a cow Works about 8 hours out of 24 and loafs 16, and averages about 50 bites of grass , a minute. Continuing down the gallery, reading from right to left,' we have these other notable non conformists j ; - John Geotis of Madison, NJ enusting in the army, he gave as his reason that he had been ad vised to by his ouija board; R. H. (Uncle Rip) Griggs of Fort Payne, Ala. 75 years old, he got his semi-annual; haircut a few days ago when he heard the year's first whipporwillj Mrs. Wade Furrow of MimI taken seasick on a yacht, she chartered an airplane to carry her back to terra firma; William Walsh, New York commuter when a ferry gate man slammed the gate in his face, got at lemon pie and slammed it in the gateman's face; Rodney Askew of Kinstonl Nf! when, as he was walking in a stream, a one-pound Derch flopped into his rubber boot.' he threw it back into the water because he had no fishing li cense? ; John Pauk of New Brunswick NJ He inserted ,n; advertise ment in a newspaper to refute rumors that he had hanged himself; Alicia Butler of Washinirtnn DC After a spat with her boy friend, she picketed his house until he finally married her; ev. udis Johnson of Macon, Ga. An itinerant minister, he not only kept his draft board in formed of his latest movements, but also started seding them copies of his latest sermons; Jimmy Lawrence. Lake Charles, La., baseball manager after four years he revealed that the mysterious lump in his cap was a live horned toad ho ,- ried for good luck. 3 '' I' h -- 1 iff v " ! ' X h i I H i 1 " ':: a i Carrel Tackles Problem Old Newspaper Files Valuable As Historical Documents Says Salem's Public Librarian Famed Scientist Hopes to Solve Malnutrition :' ;, Offers Safe Repository for Old Issues v' of The Statesman and City Directory; Residents Requested to Cooperate '-''V'' By ISABEL-CHILDS ""' . WANTED Old newspapers, not to make more paper, 'make history, . .: ..'X.; ' i'r- . - For these are the stuff of whicii history, written, documented history is made. . :-' Xx-'j-.,! .x : bat to By PRESTON G ROVER . Special to The Statesman ; PARIS, (Via Berlin), May 3 I has no foundation in fact, -according to Hugh Morrow, Salem's rwAw saaicxi, litue f rcncn i puDiic iioranan wno is garnering iQgeuier sources Oi Uregon and H"jan.itii-Bticnusi wno coiiaoo-i particularly mid-wiiiameiie vai- bergh on number of scientific Most valuable of these, he main- JTb sf the trimmest exDerimnt f tiUlIneressliirlv: ViluiM I s Incidentally, Salem public Jibr- career an effort to preserve the I Old newspapers may be suitable I wun lxs esPa"y constructed health of the French nation.' I fuel for fires or linin for fruit-1 "azme and newspaper room. Is Ke hopes tte solution to a grave I room shelves, ; but as they grow r"ipP give sucft material threat of undernourishment lies In older , they become increasingly car? an? longer m tha it uasic aiet oi oauneai. I vaiuawe. instead or be ine . dead. I "- . wia (The war! disrupted the French f yesterday's newspaper is the most I PaPers. parucuiariy those of soft agricultural economy and there is j alive source of information as to, little chance that the country will j occurrences of yesterday and the produce sufficient foodstuff to give day before, historians believe. ine nation a balanced diet In ad-J - he srVfe1 r rj.;V?.l. 'Fi , c x I i. .... I s - - - - ir- fx- I ' is." I Jv.-X-X-"-i H j " " - .X---"XXX 3i " J W r " ; i ! X - ' '' ' X - west sun . ;X---1 " , s 'X" T.TS.aHOP "r ,-rr ; "a-j, wyiarvaMWO;v . . - .... ... .,w-.-,-.'.V'Wtv.: :-''' . ' X....,.:. ou.j;,.'.sft.- tws. .x, "i-' w..'',,v)M,.'.-. wthw- :f-J;. .... - - - -- 'v- 'Air -- "W Xv ' .C..:.,i-'A.v :: tf-.-y. ' y. . .vo-.n.-.;. jf $ . '.-,;-.yX':-.,.,.. wAsw.v-' W'.v. , ,...... Xf" 1 K'"'-i -Jf " ' I J! . ' . '.... . A x dition, the British . blocJcade. has shut off most . food supplies from overseas.) H:"A lonf series of tests carried on over a number of years has' disclosed the Scottish to be one of the hardiest ; races in the world, Dr. Carrel said. "The fundamental of their diet Is oat meal ' X . ... ji As the first step in a program di- rected , by Dr. Carrel, .steps are mosi vaiuaoie ana continuing source of historic , records .'are file of the90-year-old Oregon , Statesman, nowhere available In complete form. - Therefore,- copies of early - edi tions of this "paper particularly are sought by Morrow, -who empha sizes that the public .library t is the logical repository for such ma- teriaL In many a Salem attic or base- newsprint quality, dry and crack arid, eventually , litejaHy "blow away,, unless . kept : In even tem perature, neither warm nor, cold, i in-atmosphere that is not damp but not drying and away from light.' Then, too old papers which have been folded away may al reidy be ready to fall apart A copy . of The Statesman's first issue, recently - acquired by the library, was cracked and break ig, but by skillful handling has been given many added year of existence. - ; - f-.- One surface of the four-page Paris for experimental feeding of rencn infants. ; The first station 'will have onlv 30 .youngsters, . They will be fed on oatmeal as a onain Ingredient Of their daily diet Other foods will be added to provide the es sentials : necessary to prevent them from suffering types of un dernourishment which Carrel fears may undermine tM strength of his homeland. - : Already, the scientist said, : damage from undernourishment has progressed too far for full relief if the child Is more than Six years old. Consequently the Initial ' feeding station will struction in use of Mr t.u .r !. "..Iw r4 "UQ ove receiving in- I oe exienaea to Include seven lem Boys Workshop (below), stands beside Edge water! drive near the Mter"oty bridged CoJ structed a year -ago through the efforts of O. G. Hughson (righ ), field mzn for th? Oregon BuUdtag congress, it is today an Integral part of the community's education ,yste " " being taken to set up a station in he believes,' there are copies publication has been covered with , year-olds. of early issues of The Statesman silk chiffon so .fine as to be. in which have jio personal value to visible. Not even -a spot of "the the present householders. Placed paste used In the process can be in a library, where they might be se with the naked eye. but the used for reference, their utility Ipaper may be: handled and the aaaea ooay is apparent to the touch. ' . ; ttntil just a few years aco most dwellers , in the mid-Willamette valley gave little thought to pro tecting sources of history. If you wanted to know, the year a cer tain building was moved you simrj- ly asked an "oldtimer, but even then you discovered if you asked more than one such person there might be a .slight variance in the dates given to you from memorv. Numerous Debatable Yarns Thus, there have already grown numerous, debatable stories Chinese Girl Sm ashes At oms Member of California Physics Research Staff Knows Work It Is estimated that upwards I SOIne of America's top-notch phy oi a million rhnrtrn In fh wni. I was is. t , : ! WVU' BERKELEY,. Califs t Mav 3-Tn a laboratory where science Is smashing atoms, a petite Chines HP girl works on even terms withabout history of this part, of the uregon country. Most outstand ing of these are the versions of the ac- Ty coon Is Magician MILWAUKEE, May 3 Francis W. (Fritz) Majiin is a fellow who Is handy with illusion and electri city. Illusion is his hobby and' elec tricity his business.. Magin fis president of the Square D com pany, manufacturers, electrical control equipment and also ! a member of the American Society of Magicians. , v The 58-year-old, white-haired industrialist sometimes startles a caller by shredding, a dollar bUl and then retrieving the undam aged one-spot from a freshly cut orange or pulls some other feat ;i He became interested in magic tricks about 10 years ago when an itinerant magician called at his office, and since then he's become a proficient illusionist 'X " A native of Chicago's "Gold Coasf Fritz started his industrial career as a day laborer with the old Gates iron works at Chicago. Eight years ago he was chosen president of the Square D com pany. i He is nearly as familiar a fig ure in Detroit Last year he al most commuted to his company's How Does Your Garden Grow? pied zone ultimately will tl a his young woman Is C. S. Wu. I iamous ChamDoea- meetin. brought - under the feeding sys- newcom to the University of cepted as fact by some historians tem Dr. Carrel is outlining Part 'omia's physics, research staff. A repudiated as myth by others, of the .money for the project is JJjfs w". .or more properly, Dr. Now, suddenly, the "old timer" being ; supplied through Madame C"en-Shiung Wu, looks as though 'M, more, and the first years Nungesser, mother of the French ?". "ht be an actress or an art- of this section's century of history The rain we have been having just prior to Sunday should make everyone's garden grow almost perfectly." It will finish up some of the late lilacs in a hurry, how ever. . -S p e aking - of late lilacs, ev eryone who is interested in gardening should make an effort to visit as many g a r d e ns each spring as possi ble to notice which are early and VWch are late sorts. In this manner we can choose shrubs and flowers to have a longer blooming season. - I am of the opinion that we will be having more and more visitors to our Oregon gardens now that the English gardens 'are out bf question. Every year we have read book after book and many maga 7 f . .... mm.: 'mi Ullla .U lUdm zine articles telling' us of "the cli mate of England and how it was suited to flowers and how it is too bad that we didnt have any thing similar at home. We Ore- 0nn!ane Yioita maI.'mJ ..t.a. " I Vitamins not present In oatmeal pilot ! who disappeared several ist f a. da"fhter of wealth in years ago on an attempted trans- occiaentai culture. AtlantiCi flight to the United V strangers she appears shy States. . j"iU lucent, cut before an audi- I ence of physicists and trfmn dish which will be given the chil- f" confent incisive. aren lour times .daily will be I. j was review- marmalade to make it more palat- and an I very successfully the same flow. ers grown in England. But I guess, we have been too . busy growing to take time out to tell the world , about it Some of us nearly did take time out to tell someone something when Mary Ellen Chase's book on England came out just a . few years ago. are revealed only in record. j From more than the oi scientific angle the history to be found in old newspaper file u important Information Import ant in lawsuits, settling estates and other day-by-day activities is. sought at the public libraries In old newspaper files. : rires ana mo vintf . da v ha v. A 1 J v .. . nucwix Mjr. rreii nas suae survey; of. undernourishment plant there, spending J42 nights in sieepers. . ; HEA Extension Problems to Be Discussed ' Ex-Senator Holt and Fiancee wlf.' If".' UAUAb Two meetinss tn , discuss problems relating to the extension of the REA set-un a carpenter employed by t the adult aPPlying to Polk county farmers ruucauon Drancn of the state de- noicung memberships in, the Ben. paruneni or education. : xon-iancoln Electric Cooperative. uennite Example I Inc, are to be held in this countv Since it is considered tynical ftf on May 8 and 9. acmrdin all these projects, the West Salem County Aeent W. C Leth Boys Workshop standi as a def- These meetings will be held as Inite example of the idea which follows; May 8, Bridgeport com lucceeded because of its easily dis- munity hall, 8 p. m.; May 9, Pio- wuauie urea ana very apparent neer scnooi house, 8 p. nuciijr oi organization: and! niormauon will be presented . maintenance. I relative to the The local workshop and the made hi the construction nM uianj omers iixe n scattered over nd assistance Will be given mem Oregon are but visible evidence of bers of the cooperative in connec- ie moaern m educaUon Won! with information on house which Hughson saw and launched wirine. liehtin snrf t eai years ago -ueacn-our chil-1 tures. ' dren something which they can Everett Davis, formerly of the turn to good use when they are Oregon Stat fw. j ready to go forth into the world." service, who is now a v.ai?e IOr tne KKA will-Ka nr ..J Snowballs Are Iluse I discuss wiring and installations. Attraptin aHo? 4i.-lMlss Virginia Houtchens. also an Statesman office is a bouquet of specialist, will, present in unusually large ' snowballs. The 'ormaon relative to electrical ap lovely flowers are the gift of Mrs. P""3 and household uses of ': X -xs :5:X xr 1 h P. Bressler, route three. . KfflXil r electricity. Guy Thomas, manager i of th cooperative, will discuss mattr of interest including the financing of equipment and wiring' installa tions In connection with the co operative. - TKESa 8TRAWBES3tT Scio Couple Parents SCI O Mr. and Mrs. Howard F, Shelton, Mill Gty, are parents of a I O-pound daughter, born at the Ben Thayer residence In Scio May ..... t . .. r i-1 i T. Bush D. Holt and Helen L. FroeUch I lJf J" new Picture of former Senator Rush D. Holt of West Vir. Selea t00 FroeUch' "ember of thecSj xauonal Park college, Forest Glen. Md. Misa Frriirh 7 auui an auaience some mTni aavances In nuclear fission research. Nuclear fission i th phenomenon in which the nuclei ken their toll, and the files of certain atoms spUt . roughly In maintained by The Statesman half with terrific force, and i at Publishinir comoanv am tav trd condiUons In the unocennied lnX No 1 ? a source complete, beginning as they do sone. There, he d. a different imXPOWer '. August in the year 1885. system of feeding- Infants te l... i . . M ' I . - wuit wbtiw out since me rood i kj . . , . --- - w.-. 7 uvja-oicu. supply condition Is different ST i""0 which MSg 1914 wee1 After outlining th bac5. vtA."1 backwards. ItM the dailies for the last half of but one thing after another came I proeram. the doctor wt.f 1 iix , "ne- up and the "telling" was put off. little Island off th in.onangnai m JV Dr. ome rue. Prfserved XI 1 t.j.',. .1 !.-.- X wu won ner master s dnrrM . n I ; Files of Th ct.n... a.naa occasion to go to Corvallis "vea ior many years. Chinese schnni. kX.X ."X iaiTTJ Zl.' " 4 .".m . Zi I . v wnipieie ai ine Born in Shanghai in 1914, Dr. Some Files Preserved rn--. S.. . rung ..rr..r". u." U1C. "lana Then she came to the United Rta state lihra. h. nt at SUverton and taking the fOuout the winter, looking to finish h7rV-H entire trip down, I couldnt help ailer we feeding of the popula- But hpr hMr77; - XrX Xl," , ,f roruana but not th m,, ....uX-X tion thir ,ith ..c-X i I , ' Bul 9er .P68" in China. There a Me of the paper from its erisln. GoceSaE on March 28. 131. ana . - , . . ees Publication a uiussoms oi tnree jn each tree. Hawthornes f-vPtG AwarH grown In this climate 11 China. but note the amount of hawthornes 0 there with in bloom, j They ranged from a very ueeD ; red. through rn I paxe pink to a pure white, even noted a number of trees which had blossoms of three shades on and should be planted even more i Mt! ANGEL Mt a.i I L,censef Issued extensively. At Sflverton there I lege received word Monday thatl DALLAS Marriage licenses are a number of particularly love-- the! Pacific Star, Mt Angel col- hav' been the office of v ui iiii sireei ana on west icge student . publication, had ujr cierk Carl S. Graves to ioui Bireei loiiowmg UD - over I acain been awrHl tv,- j I ui ram K. Davis flails. j Liberty hill. : X I All-American ranf k I Myrtle La Verne SchmMt ni. Then T i . I, ... . . " --. ' fr 1 i : -" uvulcu. wvwai unDresi leeiaie rrpKR - - i ouu vyiiiis wpnTnn Ken ti wim iueir lavenaer uowers. - This marks the third time that ias 8110 A1"3 EXrtma Baldwin, Dal weu as on ine me tar has received the All- entire I way. rhododendrons were American and ih CMnnrt (?ma I I Am a - I ' WWWVaAU kill 11- III I "."F. . auh o' yrs that it has been Reuort fn firl. . , i wiUMUii nor. una aits. wi?1 by Vice have returned from prov one of the prettiest varie- edi by l7o BauMr , ties in my opinion. . The; sports SuJtk?3'-?- I Mickey I reivH . i at.their best in the Silverton gar. Irises are just. bloom and within dens. Roses seemed to be much for mer advanced In most gardens man i found them in my own. I am told that the men's earden club is planning a rose show at Portland in early May, probably may iu. a number of new varie ties should be on display this sea son... ' "". . One odd garden arraneement I noted was a rose-colored haw thorne In full bloom, with a white spirea immediately below and tall enough for its flowers to mingle wim ine rose; colored hawthornes, uu uuiucuiaieiy DeiOW inlS J planting oi red peonies. The ef feet was certainly colorfuL' ; - " A number of rose-colored dog woods were also notedV and many of these ; were lovely, but two white ones which have attracted unusual attention at Silverton this spring are the one on the home ground of Mrs. P. L. Brown on McClaine street and the one on the Ruben Beer grounds at the end of Church street It would be hard to excel. In any color, the penecuon of these two comclete- ly uower-covered trees. Good Will Aired Coast to China ,1 Blossoms Attract '. WHEATLAND Two Interest ing trees of the broom family lad en wun white blossoms are ar resting attention of flower lovers at the farm of Mrs. Grant Walling.' when she speaks of "China and! through the year 1867, and has "T""."-. one , is , preparinff to 1 sponsored a Droiect for th return to her homeland with the dexing of those filesr When prinfed nope of rendering some-service to that index will be a valuable ad dition to libraries of scholars and to, public libraries as welT Mor row declares. Probably the finest private collection of old Statesman files Is that of A. N. Bush. Whose father was original publisher ef the paper. He has files from the first paper throurh 1862. v Whether, 6r not they care to place their paners in keeninr f the! library, persons who own old copies of The Statesman are urred by the librarian to notify him of the dates of papers they possess so that a record may be made. While residents of the ity are searching they may come across other 'desirable records. For instance, there is to be found one reference to a Salem Citv Hirv-triT-w imblished In 1867,' but no such di rectory is known to exist The ref erence infers that it nur hav. been no more than a paper book let but a copy of that booklet would fill a lanre ran in libr ary's shelves of source material. Polk Directory Complete oince 1883 the directories hav been published bv Polk of these volumes are misini tr thelibrary's coUection, which In cludes also the 1871 volume. How ever, directories published In 1872. 1874, 1878 and 1880 are needed and probably are availahu dm i c lem; Morrow thinks. r ann journals of an oari tell the story of Oreeon'. trront growth as an agricultural state and some day may be almost In valuable as librarv retmr, terlat Morrow declares. X , uuts or such material to the library now will Insure its pro- vuon against ravages f time and the probable lack or in.. est of future librarian points out i : Papers laid awav onr ' r , valued by, sometme;" today they mar still ho tn fA? American-Chinese girU are rehearslnr for their l merely be tolerated by their tro ,;.m, ; . , '" Good Will Hour.- unique protram 0WnerV but once they have be- lOBuea, carea-ror store of refer ence material they are endowed with a civic value which may grow with the years. i i l i rix il.wr ih.wri. llZf nlne and open talent from wJ7tL tT&ySPt for.th vngnm. released at midnieht hS..?! th,.rlent rly a the evening. The girls, left to tlfhU loIet Woo, Gladys Low, Patricia Low and IfcrniTom.