Estimate Fire -Loss
820,000
'Flax Still Smoulders
, Friday; City Pumper
- Destroyed in Blaze -
SILVERTON The 60 . tons of
flax was still smouldering at the
Elvestrom process plant at Silver
ton Friday, following the $20,000
fire, of late Thursday night. .The
city, estimated its replacement loss
at some over $10,000 and the loss
to, -Victor Elvestrom, operator of
the flax plant, was estimated at
upwards of $10,000.
Considerable flax had already
- been processed for upholstering
' of f a r n 1 1 n r e and much was
there yet to. be processed.'. Five
- machines, used . in the proees
.. sing, were also .destroyed. The
replacement Va 1 u e on these
simply cannot be figured at this
time, Mr. Elvestrom stated be
cause replacement alone would
be almost ' Impossible at this .
"i . time. Most of . the machinery
" had ' been built especially ' for
, this 'plant. ;;; , ; "
Besides the loss of the builds
log, a pumper belonging to the
city water department, was also
v destroyed. - The city, was ; fully.
, covered by. insurance: and Mr.
Elvestrom was also insured.
L. H. .Tucker, . local fire chief r
was.-coroplimentaiy Friday on the
"work of the firemen, 50 per cent
of whim are new on the depart
ment "with many of them ; exper
iencing' this as their first -fire
Tucker was especially complimen-
tary to the cooperative spirit of
Mt Angel and Stay ton depart
ments who quickly turned out
' Because of the assistance of the
departments the fire was kept
from . spreading to the salvage
lumber, which had . been taken
from the old Fischer Flouring mill
and piled close about the building
which was on fire. - A. number of
times small fires broke out in this
but were controlled almost at
once. Fear was felt lor a time for"
the flax, belonging to the Silver
ton Flax Processing company, and
stored in other ' portions of the
mill which 'were being "wrecked.
' The water department "at: Sit
verton: was fully tested Thursday,
"night with ten streams of water
planing 'on the fire ' and on the
surrounding danger spots Pres
sure' was pulled" down, water de
partment officials Stated, very lit
tle more( than frequently done in
irrigating about town.
Auxiliary firemen, a part of
the civilian defense setup, assisted
in the fire fighting under the sup
ervision of the regular depart
ment The Portland General Ipec
tric company men, headed by S.
P.. Rose, local manager, were in
attendance, warning the public
about wires which might be sev
ered by the fire and guarding
danger points. .
Office defense staff reported to
the office at once and assisted in
removing records to the city hall
in case pf necessity of playing the
heavy hoses on the defense build
ing which was in line to the
'building on fire. Walter Geren,
. executive secretary of the war ra
tioning board, supervised the re
moval of board records and sug
ar certificates from the defense
olfice.
Walls -on the brick building
were bulging Friday and guards
Were keeping the curious away to
prevent accidents as walls threat
ened to fall.
Elza .Van Reet
Elected Teacher
SCIO Miss Elza Van Reet,
Oregon City, has been elected to
teach in intermediate Scio grades
according to Mrs. F. T. Bilyeu,
district clerk. Albert Gillett, Al
bany, will Instruct in high school
mathematics. Two vacancies in
..the : high school and one in the
grades, for which contracts have
been offered but not yet signed,
still exist1 One high school and
two grade teachers had previously
.been contracted." The local school
"employs four teachers in each de
partment.
Pedee Resident
Dies Suddenly
; PEDEE Homer Link died
August 12 at 3 a. m. at his home.
Mr. Link had been at the Pedee
store the day before his death.
Brown Fractures Thumb
ELDRIEDGE - Karl M. Brown.
owner of the service station and
garage here, broke his right thumb
the first of the week.
Goodbye to Threshing Time
Combine Replacing Old Form
Harvester Because of Labor
ZENA The combine for thresh
ing grain has come into its own
in this section of Polk county this
summer, primarily because of la
bor conditions in the farm areas.
In former years big threshing ma
chines were used, some few owned
by groups., of farmers or perhaps
individuals who made the rounds
from one locality to another,
'threshing r everything from grain
to clover, the latter requiring a
change , in parts in order to get
.toe -fine seed."'" -': f j--1
.The threshing machine required
from 12 to 20 men to operate it,
while, the : combine only uses . a
sack sewer and driver.-The inev
itable result of hiring such a large
Mi'-J'-Wl
IVJLil'U.-?-; VV
Reports From Tlie Statesman? $
County Road
To Be Changed
Linn Will Transfer
To State Control ;
Meter's Installed
SCIO Linn county road from
Richardson Gap school west to the
John Griffin home, about two
miles, may be transferred from
county to state control, according
to members of the Linn county
court who inspected it this week.
It is a graveled roadway joining
the county oiled highway through
Richardson Gap to the state sec
ondary road between Scio and
Crabtree, most of which Is oiled
south of the junction.
Entering the US navy as a yeoman-
in the ' paymaster's office,
Robert F. "Joe" Miller will be
stationed for the present at San
Francisco. In civil life Miller was
a federal court reporter in the
bay city, as is his wife, the for-
rmer Trances Wesely, elder daugh
ter of the J.-F. Weselys of Scio.
The Millers visited here on Christmas,-!.
,
Rodgers Clan
Has Reunion
SCIO More than 60 members
attended the annual reunion of
descendants of Eli and Hannah
Rodgers on their original dona
tion land claim on Rodgers moun
tion near Scio. . . ,
Fred Harrison of Brownsville
was . elected . president . for next
year; Gladys .Westenhouse, ' vice
president; - Mrs. David Bosh art,
secretary-treasurer. Albany is to
be the next meeting place.
-Following a basket dinner, Lof-
fie -Arnold of Lebanon presided
during the program, which open
ed with statement by each - per
son present of his name, age, par
ents' names, and where each re
sided. Readings were presented by
Gordan Ambrosek and Mrs.
George Rodgers.
The secretary read letters from
Erwin Rodgers and Allen Harri
son, both of California, who were
unable' to attend this year's re
union. Program committee for next
meeting consists of Mrs. Joe Am
brosek and Mrs. Cecil Harrison.
Turner WCTU
Has Meeting
TURNER The August WCTU
meeting was held Wednesday with
Mrs. Molly Spiers, Mrs. M. B.
Madden, director of mission tem
perance, conducted the program
on that department work. Eunice
Bear and Carol Standley favored
with an instrumental and vocal
duet Mrs. Gene Robinson was
honored with a gift shower at the
social, hour.
Mrs. C. A. Bear, director of the
child welfare department, will
present a program on that topic
at the September meeting. A de
finite meeting place will be an
nounced later.
Grangers News
TURNER Turner Surprise
grange met Saturday evening in
the Oddfellows hall for its last
night session of the summer har
vest season, with a "melon feed
featured. ; -
On the program was a vocal
trio, "When You and 1 Were
Young, Maggie" by William
Spiers, Arthur Edwards and W
t . uuivin. - i ne charter was
draped in loving memory o Mrs
Bern ice Roberts. A report was
made of many members attending
the annual grange picnic at the
W. F. Gulvin country home near
Jefferson. The Home Economics
club will meet this month with
Mrs. Fred Oenhem , near West
Stayton.
In September the first all day
meeting- will be held, following
three months of evening sessions
during harvest season.
crew for the thresher was the cook
house, or eating house on wheels,
which followed the thresher over
lull and dale, requiring an ex-
perienced cook and roustabout in
order to have wholesome,-well
Aru-tVAtf) - j-hAsl 4r : 4Vk a writ
worked from sunup to sundown.
' The combine eliminates all of
this extra help, crew of two be
ing able to handle the machine
adequately. The combines oper-1
a ting here this summer are owned '
by Cfarehce and Ivan Merrick, I
Fred Muller, R, C. Shepard, Roy
and Cecil Martin, Owen Williams,'
W. R." Edwards, Ben McKinne, '
Frank Windsor. L. BuelL Nels
Yenckel, Ernest Soil.
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Salem. Oregon, Saturday
Coxey
(S
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rhTji-r ! i
Standing In the same bnggy in Which he led an "army" of unemployed from Massillon, to Wjwhin
ton hi 1S94, "General" Jacob 5.
honored for Its efforts in helping
Salem Heie hts
In Loft Fall While at Play
SALEM HEIGHTS j While Jerry Cleveland, Clarence Jager
and John Hinkle were playing in the Jager barn Monday, Jerry
fell through a hole in the' loft and broke his left arm at the
wrist. Jerry is the 10-year-old
Robierts Rites
Held
TURNER Funeral - services
were held Sunday afternoon in
Salem at the Clough-Barrick cha-
ple for Mrs. Bernice C. Roberts,
47, who died August 7 at'Taft
following several years' illness of
heart trouble. '- ' .
Bernice Small was born Febr
uary 21, 1895, at Turner, to" Mr.
and Mrs. Isaac Small and lived
in the community most of her
life. She was an active member
of Ideal Rebekah lodge and Turn-
ner Surprise grange.
Surviving is the widower, Law
rence D. Roberts; two daughters,
Mrs. Barbara McAllister of .Shaw
and Alice Roberts, Turner; one
son, Lawrence D. Roberts, jr., of
Turner; her mother, Mrs. Louisa
Small of Turner; aunt, Mrs. Ada
Mathias, Turner; brothers, Willis
C. Small and Cecil I. Small of Eu
gene and Brazier C. Small of Sa
lem. Two grandsons also survive
and other relatives. .
Floral offerings were profuse
and beautiful, and many relatives
and friends attended the service.
Rebekah members attended the
rites in a body. Dr. J. C. Harrison
of Salem officiated and interment
was in Twin Oaks cemetery at
Turner.
Rebekah Lodge
Holds Meeting
Lyons Faith Rebekah lodge
held its regular meeting Wednes
day night. Frances Kruse, newly
installed noble grand, presided.
Mrs. Lois Cornforth was installed
as right supporter to trie vice
grand. Martha Rice, past noble
grand of Beulah Rebekah lodge of
Albany, was a guest of the even
jng. Frances Kruse, Helen Ander
son and Goldie. Rambo were the
social committee. ;
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bass and
son Wayne with Mr. and ; Mrs
Norman Garrison and son Gerald
of Mehama attended the Alsea
pioneer picnic at Alsea.
The B and B Construction com
pany of Albany is doing repair
work for the Southern Pacific in
Lyons. They are building a new
water tank. '
Sister Agnes of the Cross and
Sister Ann' Barbara spent Satur
day and Monday with their moth
er, Mrs. Anna Schwindt Sister
Agnes . taught school in Spokane
but will teach in Seattle this fall,
and Sister . Ann Barbara, who
taught in California last year, will
teach at Medford this fall. They
both came to Lyons-from Mary I
hurst.
Pick Early Hops
In Mission Bottom
ELDRIEDGE
Work began
. Friday in the Mission Bottom hop
yard. Mr. Statesman, owner, has
j a fine crop of early hops. A fair
sized crew reported for work the
' DAIICE
Keizer
EVERY SATURDAY
Rowland's Band :
2 Miles North on
Rivet Road
Sunday
78 CommunUy Correspondents
Morning, August 15. 1942
Leads Another "Army"
5 1
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Coxey led another "army" to Massillon war plants as the-city was
to win the war. (Associated Press Telemat). ,
Boy Is Hurt
son of Ray Cleveland, 345 Ma-
drona avenue.
Wednesday afternoon about 2:30
o'clock Donald Burger was driving
home in his dad's car. with a trail
er oh behind. He was driving rath
er slow behind a funeral proces
sion when Carl Beatty of Roberts
came up from behind and side
swiped the Burger car and trail
er, damaging the rear fender of
the Burger car and' the trailer.
The Beatty car had a badly dam
aged tire. No one was injured.
Mrs. Louis Anderson and chil
dren, Roy and Barbara, have gone
to Sutton, ND, to spend a month
visiting Mrs. Anderson's mother
and other relatives and friends.
They will be back around the first
of the month.
LLoading Dock
Constructed
PEDEE Mr. Evert King Is
building a loading dock for piling
at Pedee station.
Lorence Leverman who has
been working in the shipyards at
Portland underwent a major op
eration last week.
Mrs. Ella Sheythe, who is at
the Deaconess hospital, is reported
better.
Flax Harvest
Is Underway
TALBOT Flax harvest is at its
peak in this vicinity now. The
pullers are working day and night
trying to take care of the crops.
Some of the first pulled has been
hauled. The shortage of help is
becoming so critical, women are
driving tractors in some of the
grain and flax fields. The flax
crop is extra good this year, hav
ing so much rain in the early
spring has made si fine grade of
fiber, and a heavy yield.
Seaside Family
Visits Relatives
UNION HILL Mr. and Mrs.
Darrs and small son of Seaside
are visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Haf-
ner. Mrs. Larrs was Walneta Haf-
ner before her marriage.
Verny Scott bought a combine
near Independence and moved it
home on Wednesday.
Jack Casteel of Eugene is at the
home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Casteel, for awhile, to as
sist in the farm work during the
busy harvest season.
Returns From Hospital
HUBBARD Mrs. C R. Duncan
who recently underwent an opera
tion in the Salem General hospital
is able to be home again.
Continuous From ' 1 pjn.
LAST TI5IES TODAY
i- 1 .
CHARLES STARRETT in
"I7cs! cl Tcdbsisne"
. - Pins -"THE
SMILING GHOST
with Wayne Morris and
Brenda Marshall
NEWS AND CO?.IEPY
Chap. 7 TCing ef the Texas
' Rangers". ,
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PAGE THREE
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M. McKinney
Funeral Held
iu.tuNiLK runeral services
were held at Rigdon's Memorial
chapel last Saturday afternoon for
Mayro McKinney, 75, prominent
pioneer and stock breeder of, Ore
gon, who died at a Salem hospital
following a long illness. '
' - - .)
He was the son of pioneer par
ents, William and Matilda Mc
Kinney,1 who came here in '84
from Missouri He was born near
the Pleasant Grove, community,
March 21, 1867, one of 11 children,
j
and resided in the Turner commu
nity until the past several years,
which he spent in Portland and
Salem.
His father owned and operated
the first grist mill this side of
Oregon City.
Mary Elizabeth McKinney, the
widow, survives; also three chil
dren, Milton M. McKinney of Los
Angeles, Venita D. Russell of Ti
gard, and M. Birdine Rawlings of
Portland; two sisters, Mrs. Fran
ces Ball of Turner and Mrs. Oni
etta Longsworth of Portland; three
nephews of Turner, Comyn Tra
cy, Emir E. Ball and Cordel L.
Ball.
Dr. J. C. Harrison of Salem of
ficiated at the funeral. Burial
service was at Mt Crest Abbey
mausoleum.
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Star of K 55 jL
"MY GAL SAL" $L
TWO hits
Takes -Plane -
For Vacation" "
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Shirley Horner, Mill
City, Goes East on
Extended aTrip - - ,
MILL. CITY Miss Shirley Hor
ner, owner of a local beauty shop,
has gone to Washington, DC, by
plane, and will tour North Caro
lina and various other states while
away.'ShVplans" to see Ralph Al
len and -Estel "Bricks Swan, local
boys who are In army camps In
the east. ' Mrs. Max Kelly is tak
ing care of her shbji during her
absence.--" -
Mr. and Mrs. .T W; Allen have
gone east to visit their son, Ralph,
who has. been in training at Aber
deen, Maryland, lor the past sev
era! months. . - . . . . -
Miss Sigrun Grlmstead, , Seattle,
has been, employed to teach the
third grade in the Mill City. grade
school this year.
Mrs. Patsy ' MacMasters, Los
Angeles, who has been spending
some- time as the house guest of
her. niece,. Mrs; Charles. Kelly, left
Sunday for Eugene, where, she
will visit friends for a few weeks.
She plans. to return to . Mill City
for a short thne before her j-eturn
to Los Angeles. .
' Mrs. A. A. Holthouse, who has
been 'spending. : the " past several
months in Los' Angeles with rela
tives, has ' returned to her "home
In Mill City. "
FJsa Allen, who is a secretary
at the Personal Finance Co.,Sa
km, spent, a few . days recently
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Plambeck in Mill City, re
cently.
' Mrs. Mabel Needham, primary
teacher in the Mill City grade
school, has accepted the position
of principal .in the local school for
the coming -year. Mrs. Needham,
who is working at Gearhart dur
ing the summer months, .was in
Mill City this week.
RATIONING
REPORTER
WOODBURN' The following
allotments have been made by the
local rationing board: Truck tires
andor tubes A. L. Raymond,
farmer. St Paul; Aurora De
fense club, shipyard w o r k e r s
Hubbard; Paul Simon, P. W
Mayes, J. A. McCormick, Phillip
Gooding, Frank V a c h t e r , all
Woodburn farmers, and Steven
Bauman, Woodburn shipyard
worker.
Passenger tires andor tubes
Dr. Thos. Sims, Woodburn veter
inaxian; H. McKee, Newberg
farmer; Thomas E. Hunking, Hub
bard shipyard worker, and Ralph
K. Seely, Woodburn farmer. Ob
solete tires---H. McKee of New.
berg, Charles Lekey and Jack Na
gel of Gervais and Dennis Norton
of Woodburn, all farmers. -
Recaps John L. Gates, Wood
burn carpenter, . Ed Wanner, Paul
Simon, Joe Buhr, Albert E. Mor
ris and V. D. Moore, all Woodburn
farmers; Merle Harwood, Wood
burn refrigeration engineer; J. L.
Lesher, Woodburn laborer; Jake
R. Sonnen, Hubbard farmer, and
George C Fair, Aurora merchant.
LAST TIMES TODAY
Open l:00MCs JStSJI
Returns to. California .
SCI Or Having visited Scio and
Albany relatives for several
weeks, Mrs. Harry Hofmann plans
'Syncopation'
1 . : WITH
ALL-AMERICAN
JAM SESSION
Time: 245, S:M, 7:55, 19 .45
"'. .' and .
Gene Autry
"CALL OF THE
CANYON"
Time: !:, I:5, :45, :J5
i Klines
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( ...iV'tt 5Wi'! -,m ,.-0 3.
to return tils week to her horn
at Leavenworth, Kan. - She . Is st
daughter of Mr. and MrsI' S. W.
Archer. ---
Tononnoni
SOUGHT
It wasn't her mil-
I lions! It was hor mil-
lions of dollars worth
o! looks In tiioia x
citing gown that
got th boys so
i'. bothered.. (Noma's
an ayaful in this one)
4
BOUGHT
,H lost gambling
dabt to Naughty
Noma so she hired
him as "Her Card
board Lover"to work
it pfi. Nice work U
you can gat it (A
riotooa rolo for Bob)
4
NAUGHT
He toyed with Nonna'a
aileetions once too oftea
so the'Caxdboard Lo vat"
sottlod tho.maHor in th
most riotous rough'house
yon ever saw. ' (George
1
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Sandors can tak it.)
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IT'S SHANGRI-LA
:" with a '-'
"GREEMPERNT" accent!
And youll scream at this
laughable, affable isle just
a . pop-bottle's throw from
Ebbet's Field .. . ;
where Cupid's ca
vorting with hair
on his chest and
with a sling-shot' X
It's wild, wacky ClS
and wonderful!"
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