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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1943)
FAGS TEN If here They Are -Whet They Are Doing 1 "After yen get over that first scared feeling yea a get fanny kind ef detached feeling like It's all a drm and you'll wake P pretty seen. explained ; Frt. : John W. Uttlng (shore), son of Mrs. B. E. Brew ef rotate six, Salem, In writing his first e , perieaoe nnder fire In New Gnl- nes. Bis letter, to a aJster, Mrs. Gordon Akers, was ; written April 12. Other excerpts includ ed: . - ... . "Life goes on here same as any where else. No matter what you're doing you have to take time out to eat nd sleep. . "Yes, Tojo gave us quite i it- ception when we got here. Do you remember Harold Crook? (Crook was later . reported "wounded in action.) .I'm in his squad and We TC - (Ul (UJ " . .. name of Norton who, next to me, is probably the laziest guy in the company. When we used to .go on maneuvers . we could never get him to dig a fox hole, much less get in one. When our first bomb ing raid came we were all out of bed and sitting on the edges of our slit trenches, - scared as helL You can't imagine the feeling you get your first time. "Well, the air raid siren didn't . wake up Norton, so he was still in bed when the fireworks start ed. You should have seen him come out of that bed and burn the. wind to the trench. He did a pancake landing right between Crook and myself. "Crook looked at hira kinda fanny and says: 'I'm glad to see , yea taking such' an interest in year work, Norton. "That broke the ice I wasn't Beared any more. , . . Soon as I got over being scared long enough to look around I saw Crook had Climbed out of the trench and was sitting up on top enjoying the chow, so I got up with him and we sat and watched the rest of the show. It was moonlight so we could see quite a ways. ... "We've got to where , we don't eare any more. When the Nippos come over we don't pay any at tention to them. If we were to run for a fox hole everytime they .come over we'd be in the holes all the time because they come every day. "I've seen a couple of pretty good dog fights between oar fighter planes and the Zeros. They are sure fan to watch. ... "As to the idea of you seeing me- again before long, you'd better forget , that, ItH be another two years at least before-1 get home. - I've just seen enough of this world that I'm not going to be satisfied till I see the rest of it. "As to the amusement and rec reation, there isn't much to do. The army keeps me pretty busy with manual labor between break fast and dinner time. After din ner I lay around and read or sleep until about 3 o'clock. Then I go swimming. .." (Seven lines censor ed.) After supper I go down to the chaplain's hut and listen to the radio or just sit around lis tening to hot air sessions about the , 'good old times. Write more letters and less V-iaHL" ' Pvt. Thomas B. Kay. son of Mr. and' Mrs. Ercel W. Kay of Salem, has arrived at the infantry re placement training center at Camp Wolters to begin his basic training as an infantryman. He has been assigned to a battalion stressing heavy weapons. - PORTLAND. Ore May 2S-jP) David E. Bales, Salem;, Edwin E. Brown, Sherwood, and Dwaine D. Bickford, Lebanon, became blue jackets here Thursday, the navy recruiting station reported. 14. Dall Sullivan has returned to his station at Camp Santa Anita following a two-week leave spent with his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Sullivan. . He is with the ordnance heavy maintenance department' FRUITLAND Sft. Alvln Arm strong : has been ' transferred to Bryan, Texas, -where duties in connection with. instrument flying will be his new assignment. r SUNNTSIDE Prt. Doyle Web ster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Web ster, arrived home Thursday from LaMesa, Calif on a 15 day fur lough.; He is" in the medical corps. Rollie Webster of Sunnyside has received worn mai nis son, rvi. Dick Webster in the ordnance corps, now is stationed at Gulf port, Miss. Beginning recruit training at the Farragut, Ida., naval base this week was John Stanley Turnbull, fcusband of Marion Turnbull, 830 i:rth 20th street. Salem. . Kenneth Wolfe, son of Mrs. Jennie Wolfe of Salem, became an aviation machinist's mate when ' he graduated : from the naval aviation technical train in r : school . at : Norman, Okla. Wolfe, who enlisted in Septem ber, attended Salem high school. ' -':. Following an EOTC review held at the University of Oregon Thursday, Delbert Hill, a grad uating member of the reserve of ficers training corps, was ordered to report at infantry officers' can didate school for active duty. f CpL Douglas M. Drager, who spent six months with the marines in the Solomon islands, is again in active duty after spending some time in a rest camp. In a letter to his mother, Mrs. Rue Drager, 998 North Capitol street, CpL Drager, a member of a special weapons battalion, said that he had regained the- weight lost in battle. -4 Henry Stlmson, secretary . of war, signed the proclamation an nouncing - the - posthumous award of the purple heart medal to 2nd LL Blaine McCord, jr., of the army air corps, who received mortal wounds on April 12. Mrs. Pauline McCord, 14. .McCbrd's widow, is the custodian for the medal. With their small daughter, Ann, : Mrs. McCord is .visiting at the home of the lieutenant's par ents, ; Mr. and Mrs. Blaine Mc Cord. - - : 'I IX Howard G. Roberts, son of Mrs. H. E. Roberts of Salem, has returned to the mainland . with his wife after serving two years overseas. He is now stationed at the San Diego, Calif., naval hos pital for a six months' post grad uate course in surgery. Lt Rob erts, a Willamette graduate, was serving in Pearl Harbor when it was attacked by the Japanese. His wife was a nurse in Hawaii at that time. DEL. MONTE, California Cadet Everett M orison Smith of .Salem has completed the initial step in his training as a naval aviation cadet at the navy pre-flight school here, and has been transferred to a , naval air station for pri mary flight instruction. Cadet Smith was graduated from the school after three mon ths of intensive training design ed to prepare the cadets for com bat flying to come. In addition to the important physical tough ening phase, the pre-flight course includes military drill, and in struction in naval customs and basic ground school subjects. INDEPENDENCE Bud New ton, who is with the air corps, has been transferred to Amarilla, Texas, for further training. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Kelley re ceived word this week from their son, Sgt Lewis Kelley, a marine, that he was well and busy. He was not at liberty to say where he was, but he has been receiv ing letters from home regularly. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Smith re ceived word this week that their son, Ray Smith, who is in the naval hospital at Farragut, Idaho, with i- pneumonia, is much im proved and will be able to leave the hospital soon. LIBERTY Mr. and Mrs. John Dasch received word from their son, Bob, Thursday that he had been ' graduated with high honors from ' the radio school at Farra gut, Idaho, and was being trans ferred. He now is radioman, third class, in the navy. AUMSYILLE Conrad Lee, son of Mrs. C. E. Wise, West. Stay ton. Is here for a few days while en route to Salt Lake for reassign ment. For four years, he has been in service in the army air corps with ;: a bombardment squadron. He was at Pearl Harbor when the first J bombing by the Japanese took place. He has seen service at Midway, the Solomon islands, and at Guadalcanal. Lee is a crew chief : ' on his ship and hopes ' to return for a longer furlough after being reassigned. This is the first furlough in four years. Word has been received by relatives of both Keith' Rebo and Fred ! Steiner, who left recently for; Sacramento, .Califs that they are in the army signal corps there and are enjoying their work. Both had been taking radio training in Salem for some time before be ing sent to Sacramento. Five Minute Long Distance Limit Asked The Pacific Telephone and ":legraph company asks coopera tion of long distance telephone users . to limit their - conversation over heavily loaded lines to five minutes, according' to R. N. Nix on, manager for the ' company here.' .;- X :i ; i The goal is to speed , up tele phone traffic- over, congested routes during hours when demand is heaviest and calls are subject to delay. At such times of peak demand the operator will say at the start of conversation, "Please limit : your call to five minutes others are waiting, according to Mr. Nixon. Braden Gets County Social Workers Post H.-L- Braden, executive secre tary of the " Salem Community Chest, was elected president of the Marion County Social Workers at the last meeting of the organi zation's: year Friday noon at Schneider's. He s u c c e d s Dr. Wooley of the Boys' Training school, Woodburn- , ; Miss Elda Russell, superinten dent at Hillcrest, school for girls, was named vice president; Mrs. Nova Stack, state hospital i social worker, secretary, and , K,e n neth Hunt, of the Marion county wel fare commission office, treasurer. Mrs. Elizabeth Gallaher, who came to Salem from California ap proximately 13 years ago to be come secretary of the YWCA here and has in recent yearsbeen . case .worker with the we If are commission, closed her report j on state conference Impressions with the announcement that she will leave shortly to return to Califor nia -to care' for business Interests there and to make her home with or hear her daughter, who is mov ing to that state from the middle west Mrs. Gallaher was one of the organizers of the social work ers' organization. The fact that industry is rec ognizing the need for recognition of social problems in their relation to production and economics was noted at last week's conference in Portland, Mrs. Gallaher declared. Both representatives of Institu tions and of boarding home place ment services recognize the fact that different cases in juvenile work require different care, Miss Russell said as she reported on her field in the convention; this recognition ; has not always been given in Oregon and its presence now is a step forward, she main tained. The widely-representative at tendance impressed Miss ' Stack, while Hunt said he had found especial interest in the reports concerning increased labor among elderly persons and the dropping census as to youth. Sunday School Seeks Enroll New Members The Sunday school of the First Christian church is making a spe cial effort to enroll new students in an Easter-to-Pentecost cam paign. The trend in Sunday school attendance throughout the nation has been downward, and as an attempt to stem this trend the en tire school, under the superintend ency of Chester . Lee, has enlist ed in this campaign. This empha sis is a part of the program of the United Christian Education Ad vance, in which 40 different de nominations have cooperated, to reach every person with Chris tian teaching. Three areas of em phasis in which the local church is engaged are the home, the church and the community. "Footprints" is the Sunday morning sermon subject which will be presented by the minister, Rev. Dudley Strain, as a message underlining the preference of the footprint" method of life over the "fingerprint" method. Supple menting this message will be the music by the choir, under the di rection of John Schmidt, jr., "Lead Us, O Father" by. Byrd. Mr. Schmidt will sing as a solo "Let God Arise" by Wooler. At the night service the sermon wil be on the subject The Case for Humility," with the adult choir and a mixed quartette singing the special music. Four Christian En deavor societies, graded according to ages and interests, have their mee tings at 6:30 pjn. Ex-Governor To Address SHS Students Charles A. Sprague, f o r m e r governor of Oregon, will be the speaker at the Memorial day pro gram to be held at the Salem sen ior high school, 8:45 Wednesday morning, one of the many Memor ial programs which highlights the activities .of the Salem p u b 1 i c schools next week. J Students of Parrish junior high school will meet in the auditorium of the senior high school to be presented with merit awards won during the school year, i Bush, Garfield, Washington, and Highland schools t: will all have their Memorial day programs Fri day morning. ; ' ;', ' f;. " ;- ; ; : : Other activities listed I for the week by the Salem Schools were: Parrish Junior high school, 'meet ing of all seventh and eighth grade science teachers, Thursday; Grant school, picnic, Friday; and Salem senior high school, graduation ex ercises, Friday night, 8 o'clock. ' Plant Seed Onions LABISH CENTER Clyde Leedy and Harvey -: Aker spent Wednesday working on their seed onions on the Harry Leedy place near Sherwood. The onions also belong to Frank Weinman and Willard Aker. - ; Visiting at the home of Mr. and. Mrs. Martin Roosa on Wednesday and Thursday were Mrs. Jim Roosa and children of Portland., Axis Prisoners ' & - ' ' - - . ' : . . - . . - - - 5 :L- ... - r - i . ' t ..- . -Vt - I S ' ' S I . , r, , J t - ' " ' " mm nin urn mi iViMirfsMiwit mima i nij nmi nimm f fiiise, ia TsTsMirfr-iw i naMUtrrsafc,infrv-- -: : i'. - JjHi iiosl suisaxuojjiii-jajuom Acting under emergency authorisation, axis prisoners of war were - used by United SUtes engineers to sandbag breaks en the Missis sippi river In Missouri south of St. Louis duriug recent high water. i The PW "their Jackets Identifies them as prisoners of war.' Faces ef prlsonecs were retouched' out by government request. Asseclat ed Press TelemaC : -T t . As Army Goes So Goes the : OfficeDoor Something mighty funny is go ing on in the post office building, second ! floor. Americans hear to day that the army, moves-fast and it certainly does. " : For weeks the army, recruiting station in Salem was the office first on the left at the top of the stairs, second . floor,, post . office building. Thursday the WAAC re cruiting sign, present purpose ' of the army recruiting station, moved two doors down. the hall to room 207. Friday, the sign still adorned the office two doors down, but th door plainly stated " room 211, United States army recruiting of fice. With red flags and blue air planes I glittering on the frosted glass panel. , WellJ the navy solved the mys tery. Chief Quartermaster Robert O. Fallon, who hangs his hat in the navy recruiting office right across the hall, says the army couldn't bear to part with its classy decorated panel, so in the small dark hours of the night, the post office janitor swapped doors. Farrell Plans Accident Law Survey Tour Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell,! jr, will leave early in July for New Hampshire, Massa chusetts and New York to make a first-hand investigation of mo tor vehicle financial responsibil ity laws now in operation in those states.. : v The Oregon motor vehicle fi nancial: responsibility ac, enacted Dy we iasi legislature, dccuiucs operative June 9. Machinery for the local department is now be ing set up. Reports from New York, state show that since the financial re sponsibility law was placed in operation there automobile own ers carrying insurance have in creased from 35 to 85 per cent, - On June 1 and 2 Farrell, will attend a meeting of the highway traffic advisory committee to the war department in San Francis co. On the following two days he will participate in sessions of the American Association of Motor Vehicle law administrators. On his way home from the east Farrell will attend a meeting of the national safety council in Den ver. , : -: -. 4H School Scholarships Are Awarded Eight scholarships to the . 1943 4H . club summer school .were awarded to students of Marion county schools showing: the most improvement in the personal health of students," in the school grounds and in lighting and ven tilation j facilities, Amos Bierly, 4H club county agent, announced Fri day. : Schools were' : divided into six classifications and were awarded scholarships on the basis of the number; of points received under the headings - of student health, water supply, school ground im provement, washing facilities, cleanliness and drinking facilities. The r winners "were as follows: One room modern schools. Buna rest; ohe room semi-modern, Ank eny; two and three room modern. 1 DRS. CHAN . . . LAM Or.T.TXaoN D. - Dt.G.CbaaNJa CHINESE nerballsts 241 North Uberty H tests arc free charge. Practiced gmw' 0-fet---: j ) MM O Immhm i - 111 LaausBussou Sandbag Levees Scouts Start New District Scouters from the Silver Creek Falls district met Thursday at Mt Angel to reorganize the district and plan an election of officers for 1943, L. L. Leighton, Cascade scout executive, announced. Z Chairman D. Ai Harris of Mt! Angel appointed Dave St John, Gervais; Ray Glat, Woodburn;- T. Hobart, . Silverton, "and L. Whi ther, Mt. . AngeL on the nominat ing cconmittee and asked them to meet again on May 29. Others present at the meeting were Rev.- L. Roadakowski, Cas cade Area Catholic chaplain, Sa lem; Herman Naegeli, Silverton; Leonard Fisher, Mt. Angel; T. R. Hobart, Silverton, and Joe Has sler, Mt. AngeL 6 Camp Adair Officers Get Promotions CAMP ADAIR, Ore, May 21 The promotion of six officers, one with the rank of major, was an nounced here this -week by Gor don H. McCoy, post commanding officer. Those officers promoted and their new rank follow: Major Thomas B. Carson, Oklahoma; Captain Walter R. Padrick, Ore gon; Captain Byron Wright Ore gon; 1st Lt. Albert W. Lawrence, Massachusetts; 1st LL G. I Reier, Florida; and 1st Lt D. Rogers of Texas. .;' Major Thomas Carson attended the University of Oklahoma and was a member of the Reserve Of ficers Training corps. At the con clusion of his , schooling Major Carson .was commissioned as a second lieutenant. . - Capt. Walter Padrick was made detachment commander of the military police at Camp Adair be fore becoming provost marshal in February, 1943, in which capacity he now.serves. jY;, -: 4::" Capt. Byron Wright is now com pany commander of Headquarters Company SCU 1911 after 27 months of service as a first lieu tenant. . Lt. ' Albert Lawrence, up from the ranks, has served in the regu lar army for 15 years. He is as sistant 'officer in the post quar termaster property office.! Lt Lawrence, Lt. Reier and Lt Rogers all came to Camp Adair from Fort Warren, Wyo. All rose from the ranks and received their commissions as second lieutenants in September, 1942. Lt Reier is an assistant officer in the post quar termaster property office, while Lt Rogers is assistant detachment commander of the post quarter-. Mehama; two and - three '.' rodni semi-modern, Eldrldge. two four or more room modern school. Au burn and St Mary's, ML Angel; and school '.maintaining high standards, Hubbard and '. Central Howell. ' Delivered Fresh , Daily, -'"r: Everyday your Master Bread salesman checks your grocer's supply f bread . --. he keeps just enough on the rack to fill your needs with fresh Master Bread. -. AT YOUR GHOCm'S 1 -J . ". ...... J w.. . ... ... . 1 op :: r Awards :R2ade During S 'Presentations of various 'aca demic and, athletic awards were made Friday afternoon at a spe cial all-school assembly in the Salem high school auditorium. . ' " R.-;" M. Murphy,"7 speech coach, awarded . some 1 25 .speakers with certificates of merit while eight of the number were issued spe cial'' silver medals.. Those receiv ing the latter award include Bill Burns, 'Jim Purdy, Don .Yocom, Jean ' Barham, Phyllis Graham, Erma ' Wolverton, Jane ' Huston and . John ' Brown.. Others Includ ed ; Howard , Thornhill, ;v Helen Boyce, Addyse Lane, Tom Brand, Jim Nickel,! Albert Costello, John Caplan, '. Donna Unruh, Lillian Oliver, Nevltt Smith, Pat Leary, June Young, Alice Rose, Hugh Lovell,-' Jean Driggs and Nancy Brown. " . , " Preston Dough ton, head of the commercial'- department, present ed the Morris cup,' an award giv en annually to the ; outstanding student In the commercial depart ment to Adele Eagan.' Mrs. Da vid Wright, regent of the Che meketa chapter of -the DAR,- pre sented Lois Barrick with a good citizenship certificate. Junior Red Cross President Jane. Walsh pre sented to the Crescendo club a gold trophy: for ' their top quota in bond and stamp sales, -.yc - .. Dorothy Cooney, t Latin c 1 u b president, recognized, the out standmg students In Latin for the past- year; Wesley . Miller,- Com mercial club president made a donation toward the organ: iund, as did Curt Ruecker, S club presi dent - Delia Mark, vice-president . of the Girls' Letter "club, awarded the' large plaque for outstanding service In 'that': club to Helen Calkins, t h 1 s year's president while Mrs. Stanley Kruger an nounced winners of a r e c e n t American Legion-conducted ' post er contest (See sports page ' for athletic awards.) US Assembly Attention, every boy who yearns to imitate the brave deeds cf real U. S. fighting men! Here's the "real McCoy! Made to the same t'pedficEtins as the helmets our' American soldiers wore into battle on the hot tzndi of Africa and in the jungle fighting in New Guinea. What's more these helmets 'can take it!'! They're practically tmbreakable made cf tor-h molded plastic. Why even a man weighing 200 pounds could stcrrp on them! And light they weigh less than 8 ounces. The tpecial tcrness inside adjusts to fit any head. Be the first boy in your "gang" to wear one! But hurry! Wards stock is limited! RHS Student Wins Bond- - Secretary of State Robert S. Farrell, jr, was notified Friday that Mary Elizabeth Lynch, Rick reall high school student, won a $25 war bond in the recent letter writing contest conducted by the United States department of agri culture, war board and Elks lodge. ' The contestants wrote on "the importance ' of food production. Farrell will make the presentation later , this month. I, -;;.'-. Compensation LaiIraced ; For jtors The ; line i dividing , what , con stitutes an independent realty contractor not liable, to the pro visions of c the ' state : unemploy ment compensation law and realty salesmen whose : employers ' a re liable to the law was traced Fri day before 'the Salem . Realty board" luncheon at : the Marion hotel by David H. Cameron, sup ervisor of contributions at the state unemployment compensa tion ; commission. - . i- i t - . . Salesmen' free from thedirec tion of any employer and engaged in, an independently .established business : would not- come under the ' compensation , law, - Cameron said. ;V -" "j.yS t; i . . On the other hand, those real estate brokers employing four . salesmen for a calendar quarter with an aggregate pay roll of five hundred doUars would be.; liable to taxes on , the - wages of these employees . from April . 1, 1937,! he added. ':-:'r.rA:'' ' ' "r':'""i'v' As a background for his speech Cameron reviewed the - aupreme court decision ruling ;t hat . the. George A. Rahautis company, Portland real estate, firm; was subject' to the. state- unemploy ment compensation' law.- r ' . , Wiebe Death Revealed W. W, P. Wiebe, who operated a lawnmower repair shop on Ma rion street in Salem for a num. CFZCIAL PU2CHACZ vAnus-msr last! ' V Engineering Drawing Oass Slated Here ; ; An engineering war traininf class in elementary drawing and lettering, in which both men and women may prepare themselves without expense for more tech nical positions in war" industries, will be given at the Salem high school " shops building beginning next. Tuesday night at 7 o'clock. The course is sponsored by the engineering, science and manage ment war training program, di rected by the US ofice of educa-. tion and administered in Oregon by R. H. Dearborn, dean of the school of engineering at Oregon State college. ' ' .' The class will meet for three hours each Tuesday and Thursday night according to Glen W. iol comb, professor of civil engineer ing at Oregon State college and state ESMWT coordinator. It will cover such things as selection and care of drafting Instruments,: use of tools and basic drafting tech nique, principles of letering, geo metry of - drawing, orthographic projection and practice in read ing drawings. . . ".' . Stay ton Organizations Sponsor 4H Youths wf." STAYTON 5tay ton organiza tions again are sponsoring boys asd girls at the annual 4H sum mer school to be held in Corvallia June 1 to 11, the Parent-Teacher association' is sponsoring Mabel Hougardy and Carol Titus; Wo men's club, Elaine Maisel; Legion auxiliary, ReseSheffer; 4H poster fund, Raymond Pemberton; Gar den club, Genevieve- Pooler Lions' club, Richard Griffin. , " bee-of years, died recently at De vil's Lake,: North Dakota, accord ing to word received from a son, Abe Wiebe of Seattle, who with his daughter Madeline was called to North Dakota- at the time of the senior Wiebe'a fmal Illness. 3ru
