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Jean W. Hollatein of Salem was
promoted to ' a captaincy in the
army at Fort Berating. Ga, Wed4
nesday, his - mother," Mrs. W. ' Gi
WUdlv e3 North Liberty strwt,
learned by: telegram Thursday. - -.'
CapL ' Hollstein, who graduated
from Salem high school and from
Oregon' State college in 1941, ca
tered service January 21, 1942. Be
-is an infantry instructor, teaching
? basic machine-gun. He and Mrs.
'Hollstein reside at Columbus, Ga.
i CAMP STONIAN. Calif, Mar.
-A William F. -Toomey, of Port
land. Ore, was this week promote
ed from first lieutenant to captain
in the US army.
Captain Toomey was formerly
' employed as an auditor by the
; state unemployment compensation
commission , at Salem, Ore, and
before bis entry into the service
September. IS, 194t, was in the of -;
(leer's reserve corps.
He is quartermaster and port
claims officer at Camp Stoneman,
-and his wife, Mrs. Veda Kldd Too-
meyt lives at S525 Southeast lth
' itreet, Portland.
Orvfile D Beardsley. son of Mrs.
Olive M. Beardsley of 1295 South
! Liberty street, who enlisted in the
army air corps reserves last No
vember, has been called to active
service and is stationed at Buck
ley Field, Denver, Colo. He bad
.seen employed in Oakland, Calif.
jintn February 10 when he re
ceived orders to report for duty.
seas. Ramon Dickey , has Just been
inducted and is stationed tempor
arily at Fort Lewis. j'
Jack, R. Heidinger, seaman sec
ond class, has been transferred to
the navy signal corps. He Is now
training at the University of nil
nois, UrbAuv HL His mother, Mrs.
Lillian Heidinger of McMihnville,
is a former resident of Urbana.
Seaman Heidinger has asked that
his Salem' friends write to him,
using- this address: iUSNTS (Slg
nal). Company F, Section
bans, 111.
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of Mr.
Lt. William Mudd, son
and Mrs. Clifton Mudd,1 has been
appointed special service I officer
of his battalion at Camp Croft,
SC," according to information re
ceived here by bis parents. Lt
Mudd graduated from officer can
didate school at Fort Benning, GaM
before going to Camp Croft.
Bob Gardner, sophomore at Wil
lamette university, left Friday for
training-ill the army air corps at
Fresno,. Calif. He is a Salem high
school graduate, member of High
Y and affiliated with Alpha Psi
Delta at Willamette. Gardner is
the sen of Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Gardner, 1990 McCoy street.
Henry - F.. Henderson, seaman
second class, left Tuesday for Far
ragut, Idaho, after visiting with
relatives and friends in Salem and
Portland. He spent , a few days
also with his mother, Mrs. Percy
Henderson, in-Dallas. Henderson
was a Junior. in Salem high school
In 1942 and enlisted in the navy
last October.
Set. Howard Dicker surprised
: his mother, MrsEima C. Diek
ey, Wednesday, when he ar
rived heme ea:. a 29-day far-
loach after twe years In the
Hawaiian Islands. His father Is
Harrel Dicker of Salem. Sgt.
Dickey, Whs has seen active
service bathe Math Pacific, was
in Hawaii during the attack ea
Pearl Harbor and has been as-
signed to daty training new re
- cruits en the. west eaasi.
Two other Dickey boys are in
the service. Sgt'ltoscoe W. Dick
ey went to Fort Lewis with Salem
members of the Oregon national
guard and is still with them over-
Ensign Stanley E. Eland.! former
Salem high school and Willamette
university student, has been dec
orated with the navy air medal
for distinguished service during a
bombing . raid on Japanese-held
Kiska island in the Aleutian Is
lands. Ensign Eland was wounded
by Jap firing on his plane during
the attack of the Japanese upon
Dutch Harbor. His parents re
side at 1363 North Church street
until they moved to! Portland.
Eland belonged to Sigma Tau fra
ternity when a student at Wil
lamette. Robert W. Eland, his
brother, is going to Seattle this
week for naval officers' training.
Word that their son,1 Lt. Rob
ert Halst. new stationed in Cali
fornia, has beea promoted te
first lieutenant has been re
ceived here by Mr. and Mrs.
Bert Halst. The young lieuten
ant's wife Is visiting, with him,
while their 'Infant daughter,
Shirley. Is with her grand
parents here. Halst, sr recent
ly spent seme time In the' south
ern state with his son. :
JEFFERSON A. Wilson has re
ceived Word from his son, Clar
ence, a second class seaman, that
he is somewhere on the Pacific
and is well. Clarence received his
training at Camp Farragut, Idaho.
Pvt. C. E. McClain, who is with
a bombing squadron at Oklahoma
City, Okla, is home on a furlough
visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. S. McClain at Woodbum. On
Tuesday McClain visited his
grandmother, Mrs. Lucretia Mc
Neal, and aunt in Jefferson. Mc
Clain is a former resident of Jef
ferson, and was graduated from
Jefferson high school.
GERVAIS Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Holoubek have received word from
their son, Robert, that he bar re
turned to the eastern coast ; and
will visit Ms grandmother in Chi
cago before coming on home. He
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Aviation Cadet Maurice W. Man
; gls (above), 21, a former Ore
gen state highway department
employe, has been transferred
to Yama, Arts for advanced
flying instruction . after com
pleting Ms basic training at
Merced, Calif. Cadet Maagis Is
the son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
-John E. Maagis, 1264 South 13th
street, Salem. HJs wife, Frances,
Is residing In Salem while he
completes his flying training.
is with the merchant marine and
has been on a trip since Septem
ber. Their son, Richard, leaves for
the army March 6.
SUNNYSIDE Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Barry, have received
word that their son, Robert
Barry, has been . advanced to
corporal.
WEST SALEM James A. Kes-
sel, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Kes
sel, of Seventh street, has enlisted
in the armv air corns. JmM i
the fourth son to enter the ser
vice. Laurence is in north Africa,
John in Cuba, and Francis in
Hawaii. He was there durina the
Pearl Harbor raid.
Temporary USO
Sites Discussed
To discuss suggested temporary
sites for Salem's new USO cen
ter, a group of members of the
city's defense recreation commit
tee and the USO met Thursday
noon at the YMCA for luncheon
with Faber Stevenson of the USO
and Roger Folgate, recreational
representative of the federal se
curities agency in this area.
No decision was reached but
hopes were held out that a selec
tion might be announced next
week, Fred Anunsen, chairman of
tne recreation committee, said at
the close of the session. Remod
eling of the Breyman block, aft
er final annroval has been se
cured, may take more than three
months, be said. Dolntin to the
necessity for a downtown soldier
center prior to the possible open
ing date there.
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lem Chamber
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Centralized Agency for
Community Prosperity
Salem and eurrounding communities prosper directly In accord
ance with the amount of cooperation we all give to support our
agency for the common good of allJ That agency in Salem is the
Salem Chamber of Commerce, j .
Now that there are so many projected war industries afoot, the
Oianiber of Coznmerce has dedicated itself anew and revitalized
its various hranches and departments in order to keep Salem in
the front ranks in assisting the war effort.
Look to your Oiamher of Commerce this year for higger and
Proicts- J00 for. the grjeatest era of prosperity Salem
has erer known. Your rapport as a member will help immeasur
ahly in getting these new industries for Salem, i
.vtht nor ormt touh hams as a candidate foh membership KOW1
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Eyierly CJSka'afi Company
and stationed In England; Ken
neth, a signalman second class in
the navy, and Curtis at home. -
Raver Blasts -
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Sgt. Rueclter of Salem KiUed
hi Plane Crash in New Guinea
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Ruecker, SOS North 16th street.' received
word .Wednesday that their son, Staff $gL Quentin Ruecker, had
been killed in a plane crash in New Guinea. The message came
from his commanding officer, Mai. Eugene B. Jackson of a troop
carrying squadron ox the air corps.
According to the major's letter,
the plane of which Ruecker was
co-pilot was sent to New Guinea
and upon the. return trip crashed
in the jungle. None of the crew
survived, the major believes. -
Ruecker was a graduate of Sa
lem high school, attended Willam
ette university and Oregon, State
college. While at OSC he was, a
member of the Oregon, rifle drill
team. In Salem, he was a Capital
Journal carrier. , Ruecker was sta
tioned with the 249th coast ar
tillery, battery G, when he entered
the service but .transferred to the
air corps two years ago. -He re
ceived his mechanical training at
Santa Maria, Calit, continued to
Moffett Field and was graduated
last June , from Luke - field He
flew In early November to Aus
tralia. He wrote that he'd run
across a number of Salem and
Oregon men whom he knew. Be
yond that, the Rueckers had re
ceived no word from' him.
Survivors are his parents;, two
sisters, Dorothy and Lois, at home;
three b r o t h e r s, CpL Wilfred
Ruecker, who is in the air corps
PORTLAND, Ore-- March, 4.-
OTV-Bonnevflle Power Adminis
trator Paul J. Raver said Thurs
day private . utilities did not op
pose Bonneville and Grand Cou
lee power projects In the develop
ment stage because they hoped
to wield control of them through
ownership of transmission lines.
Addressing a businessmen's
dub,! Raver credited the Bonne
ville! act with preventing utility
holding companies from "stealing
a! march upon you, if they can.
while your, backs are turned.
Raver also challenged Implica
tions that free private enterprise
cannot exist outside of private
business and that public and pri
vate enterprise cannot exist side
by aide.
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Vice-President
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ed Presideat Roosevelt ea sev
eral legs of his flight to Casai
blanea, has beea elected a vice
president of Traaseoatiaental
- Western Airlines. .Associated
Press Telemat.
Ex-Governor Dies
LOS ANGELES, March 4-jP)
Frederick William Plaisted, 77,
former governor of Maine, died
Thursday after a brief illness.
Plaisted came to southern Cali
fornia to live 15 years ago.
JefiiMF Top9
He has lived through three wars and Is going strong In the
four onelr-tiaVM the history of J. T. Jones of Jefferson. Ho
fielebrated this week jby. leading his war fund workers in Jeffer
son over; te top ahead-of aU Marion county. Jefferson's quota
was 450; couections now are 1309
and still more bn th way. f i
TSaDie of ! the people in Jef f ei
son said that we should stog -when
we had' reached our quota, jbut
people want . to give and,: ; too,-1
told, them; the Red Cross doesinot
stop with a Certain amount of work
done it keeps right on working
as long-as there lsf a Job to be
done so I thought we better &6' all
we could this year 4we are in war
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Mr. Jones : was born in Linn
county, Norember 18, 18S3, on his
father's donation land claim, j He
came to Jefferson Irt 1890 and as a
youth looked on whfie the railroad
bridgef at ; Jeffersor - was ; bfing
buOL Later he went into the gen
eral mercantile business under! the
firrn name !of Smith and Jones.
During the i last! world jarar
George Griffith asked Mr. Jones
to take charge of Red Cross work
in Jefferson. We did pretty well
then," Mr. I Jones ventured.
These past few days Mr. Jd
and his ' workers have covered
about 40 miles outside of Jeff er
son. "I feel ti today; getting in
and out of cars shakes me ieel
kinds old!" he cnmmented.1 I
imagine that aQ told we did not
have-more than a dozen people
who turned down a chance to give
to the Red Cross."
1 What is he going to do now that
the war fund drive is over the
top? Well, Mrs. Jones has been re
minding him pointedly that good
weather means good gardening!
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Save $5 to
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Sails and
Topcoats
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Sport Coats,
Slacks, Pants
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Fine Hats
Opea SaL Night TCI 9 o'clock
JOE'S
TJPSTAD1S
CLOTHES SHOP
442 State St.
, Next Deer to Quelle Cafe
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