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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1943)
1L OUTGO!! STATZCMA17. " Cclen. Cragon. 7iaes Ja7 I ZzrzLzz t rr !V12i3 100 Silver ton Youtlis Ready For Labor ' One hundred youngsters in the Eilvertcn area are ready and will ing to turn out for platoon: agri cultural labor 'this summer, Jo seph Wilson of the US employ ment service . learned .Tuesday when the, f irst returns on the pla toon labor questionnaires arrived from ,City a School Superintendent 11. , W. Adams at Silverton. t . Enough have sighed up to make two platoons; but leaders have not yet been selected, Wilson in dicated. The ! platoons . probably will not be called Into action un til mid-June when the strawberry harvest gets into full swing in that area. - 1" ' While' the 100 who indicated willingness to work under : the platoon' system represented a f air Dbrtiori of ' those " questioned, a large T percentage revealed plans to' join in a family unit or to sees lobs independently. The heaviest percentage expressed a d e s I r e against wo r kin g with large groups. ' i . Returns for" Salem" are expect ed today while those from Dallas probably will arrive this wee. At any rate, the questionnaires point to an enthusiastic turnout among the youth ot tlus - area when harvesting starts this year. Oregon Youths Assigned Jobs In Fife Watch Between 700 and 800 Oregon high school boys, ranging from 18 to 17 years in age, will assume their duties in" the forest fire pro tective division of the state forest ry department on June 1, Nels Rogers, state forester, announced Tuesday. ' W.- '--V .-- - 4 Rogers said most of the boys have been in training during the past winter. They will be used largely in protecting the forests m firm " Kut alert will ranstruct trails, build and repair telephone lines and erect and repair look out 'stations. The boys will be divided Into groups of five, ten and twenty, with an - experienced forestry de partment Held operative in charge f each. They will' be housed in portable baracks, tents and struc tures previously used -by the CCC. m m. . - -i - - - - iver Gravel Usfedonilbad Not the most desirable rock for road, but best available under cur rent conditions, is the river gra vel from a bar in the Santiam which has been used to form the .Talbot stockpile, County Judge Grant Murphy said Tuesday. Be tween 3000 and 4000 square yards . f the ' rock ; have gone into the "pile; he said. - . i To whatextent the big crusher will operate on Jackson hill this summer is still an open question, Ururnhv tsM Hi thnilffh - it Is planned to open the work " there. 'Without a small, easily moved v crusher, the county must depend : h the river gravel largely for its road jobs, he indicated. ' , State High Court Affirms $5000 Damage Judgement tko ctoi cunrPTirtP ronrt Tuesdav affirmed a decree of Cir cuit Judge Martin W. Hawkins, injury , suit brought by M. E. Motors, .Inc appeUant, and Uenerax Motor saies corporaiion, ae- fendant Th lower ' court - returned a judgment of $5000 in favor of the plaintiff. Stonebrink alleged that he sufr fered injuries while using a faulty jack sold to him by the Highland Motors, Incv in connection 4with 55is purchose of a second-hand au tomobile. The accident occurred when Stonebrink jacked up th? rear of his car v r" 'The opinion was written by Jus tice Harry Belt '- ' v -. i :Int-another opinion the court af firmed Circuit Court Judge L. H. McMahan, Marion county in a pro "ceeding fUed by Alice lliller, in volving a claim of $4000 for per sonal services against the Joseph Hiller estate. Alice Killer was a neice of Joseph Hiller. The claim was rejected by Frank G. Smith, administrator of the Jo seph Hiller estate. The supreme court held that she has a right to file suit covering the claim under the Oregon laws. The opinion was Warning Jo Drivers Don't lose your right t own or drive a car In Oregon after . Jane 9th.' ... i TIIE SUREST WAY: ObUIn a standard' auto Insuraaee policy new, before the law rees into effect. It costs so little. ' HUGCaNS T OFFICE IS TIIE AUTOMOBILE AGENCY SPE CIALISTS OF SALEM. f CHUCK IJ U -Oregon's Largest Upstate Agency Seles end Marshe!d 123 II. Commercial Salem Dial EPonMlQ nUedBODD'cDo CIItCTJIT JCOURT Walter II. Evans, jr.. vs. Everett D." dine; order, .based on motion of plaintiff, dismissing case witn out prejudice and without costs. - State vs. Raymond Harding Ken ton; sentence of 15 months in the penitentiary for unlawful use of an automobile, following waiver of grand jury indictment and plea of guilty.- ' ' - Lester A. Cole vs. . Arloene , A Cole;! answer denying that defen dant I treated planum . in cruei and 'inhuman treatment and that the; amounts suggested infc plain tiffs complaint are reasonable or sufficient for her support and that of minor children; asks judgment against i plaintiff for permanent support and maintenance in sum of $40 a week and for the further surnof $1000 for, payment of, cost of . medical treatment and costs and expenses incident to her com ing confinement, and for payment of monthly . installments on mort-j gage lien covering her home;; no tice that defendant will appear in court June 7 at 10 a jn. to make oral motion for an order requiring plaintiff tovdeposit with clerk of court' sum' of $150 as attorney's fees for defendant. : PRORATE COURT William Brown estate; report to stjite treasurer by chandler P. Brown, executor, shows net value of taxable estate to be $36,835.80; order fixing net general estate tax at $311.16. Ben Kantelberg estate; final ac count by Laura A. Kantelberg, ad ministratrix, shows receipts, total ing $3673.97 and disbursements of $2183.46., " i Antone Tuess estate: order ap pointing Mary Tuess administra trix of estate tentatively valued at $1500. Otto J. Wilson estate: appraised by N. C. Clement, WV L. Phillips and J. Irvine Caplinger at $34,- 852.35.- - - .John G. Harrington estate; or der confirming sale of real estate, two lots in Bradley's addition to Woodburn, to Joseph Goldade for $115. ' - . : - : Mitchell James Lucier estate; order directing that the name Mitchell" be interlined in all in struments of estate now on file and to so appear in all instruments hereafter made and filed in the estate." " .' -: Ada S. Hull estate: order ap proving final account and direct ing distribution. Tfisnrr cionRT Beatrice Johnson; contributing to the delinquency of a minor; dis missed at request of private prose- cutrix and on mouon ox cusxrici attorney. 7 . Inhn- AJ Allen: nreliminary hearing on lorgery cnarge set ior 10 tm, Thursday; continued in jail In lieu of bail. AhU90U - S rancy 'continued Indefinitely on motion of district attorney; rer leased on own recognizancev - Richard F. Cordell; no license on trailer; $1 and costs. ... Glenn M.i Fisk; no license on aHr? SI and costs. ; ' . Getson - Ford ; paid $5, total of fine and costs billed against him in Silverton justice court April 23, and released. . - i ParmAnd Hardin Kenton; sen tenced to 15 months in state pen itentiary, sentence to run concur-rently-with that of one year neted out to same' defendant. Monday; CUiiUUliLCU. . . . - Multnomah county, in a personal Stonebrink against the Highland written . by Justice .Brand! ' . ;The-'-hih court denied a.peti tion. for rehearing of the case in volving Ernest Darwin Sprague, convicted of manslaughter in con nection with the slaying of Charles Officer In Clackamas county. Three men originally were in dicted in connection with the slay ing. Sprague is under penitentiary sentence. - .' " ' j; - i AoDlication for stay of. execu tion. and judgment in the suit of Euedis K. Scott against Robert Treat : Piatt, Multnomah county, pending appeal to .the United States supreme court, was denied by the court, Piatt appeared as judgment-debtor in the proceed ing. The opinion was written by Justice Lusk. The courV denied a petition for rehearing of the case of Keeier vs. State Industrial Accident com mission. Mntt week's oDinions will be handed down on Wednesday. ! 13 n CHHT insunAncE MUNICIPAL COURT Clarence J. Rosenau, route two. Turner; failure to stop; $2.50 fine. Eleanor Staab: disorderly con duct; $50 fine and 10 days in jail, sentence to be suspended on pay ment of fine. . f?;1-. v i Clyde Glenirle BaOey; violation of basic rule;$7J50 baiL , Stuart Ben Brown; violation of basic rule; $5 fine. William Geoffrey Rivkm, Cor- valhs; violation of basic rule; $10 ban.'--,s:4-?;-:.:::' ; i 'i:;-UV,--& Otto H. Watzig, Myrtle Creek; failure to stop; $20 bail. Roy Wilson Sparks; i reckless driving; $25 fine. ; . MARRIAGE APPLICATIONS James E, Montgomery, 21, US army, North St Paul, Minn, and Alice E. Smith, - 16, waitress, Brooks. . , . ' " . , Paul M. Whitley, 23, Fort Lew- Is, US army and Lynn Rosemary Smith, 18, domestic, Salem. ; Henry i James Beutler,i 22,: fari mer, and Elsie Mae Roth, 18, both of route six, Salem. ' . I Wallace Hults, 21, sawyer, 1405 North Commercial street, and Ver onica Brown, 19, cook; : both of Salem. , Gill Issued for : Berry Pickers to Work Thursday . Strawberry pickers ' are needed in the Hazel Green area, the US employment service announced Tuesday. About 20 pickers will be met at the . employment office Thursday morning at 1 a. m. for transportation to the. fields. The picking from now on in this area is expected to develop daily, with the peak to be reached early in June while peak season In the Silverton Hills area will probably hit about mid-June. Growers are paying 3c per hallock with a Vic bonus for pick ers completing the season. Fryer Recovers DETROIT Tom Fryer, who has been confined, at; the Deaconess hospital ) with pneumonia, is - re covering satisfactorily.! He under went a major operation Saturday and is expected, to be released from the hospital within a few days. ,'. " $, b Just a .. - . : - X Pi Crowding ; can't be helped You can't count .on perfect timing Page; Orders Kenton Terms Conciirrient Because he declared,' he want ed to. fight rather than to aid in equipping men for battle. Pvt. Raymond Harding Kenton, entered upon a series of ; activities which took him Tuesday , afternoon to the Oregon state penitentiary ; to serve a maximum of 15 months. A one-year sentence for burg lary meted . out to him earlier this year was revoked "Monday and Tuesday, Kenton,, waived grand jury hearing and entered a plea of guilty to a- charge of taking and using a car from the Shrock used car lot here without authorization. Kenton, who had been stationed with a ' quartermaster's training group ; here, skid ' he had trained once for duty in ordnance and had wanted to be with an organization assigned to combat duty.? Howev er," he was recently indicted .by the grand jury in his home county in Kentucky for alleged law vio lation prior ; to his entry. Into the army. t . : Judge E. M. Page, , explaining that he understood .the ; youth's anxiety to get into action but that the quartermaster's job was as es sential to the army as any other and that obedience was a part of his duty, declared, however, that he would extend lenience and re quest that the two terms run con currently. " ' Steelhammer Heads Group Of Draftees. Tuesday's draft of inductees left Salem for Fort Lewis In the charge of John F.- Steelhammer, state representative, who was act ing as temporary corporal. . . Inductees were: Augustino B. Bello,JH. Vernon Irey, Dale A. Woodruff, Hubert G. Gallion, John F. Steelhammer, . Fred M. OLson, Lawrence W. Bloom, Will iam R. Schaefer," Cyril R: Suing, Raymond W.1, Warren, and Henry W. Thielsen. Harlan G. Crawford was' accepted for limited service. Frank Schweigert, another in ductee, will leave for Fort ' Lewis Wednesday. '"'. .- :.-r. - minute folks Ihis isn't exactly our idea of being hospitable. ; But we think it only fair to warn you that train travel is different in wartime ' i Nowadays our trains are generally, crowded, often . late. Some cars aren't bright anl shiny like they used to be. You may have to wait quite a while to get into the dining car on some trains. .. , , . .f Most people now riding S. P. trains are patient and under- ; standing about these' travel difficulties. We're grateful for this cooperation and for our part.were trying not to use the war as an alibi. But, frankly, here's our situation . . S. P. operates a most strategic sector of the transcontinental railway system. Our traffic load is now the heaviest in his tory. We serve the principal ports of embarkation on the West Coast, also more military and naval establishments than any other railroad. 1 During this war period, our chief responsibility is to keep - the war trains rolling. Everything else must be secondary! iilKtfEiP Many of our cars usually-available for civilian travel must be diverted constantly for military use. We're short of cars, and we can't buy new ones now. We're also short of locomo tives. Consequently we can't run additional trains. Ever since the war began we've been making up thousands of special trains for troop and war freight movements. We've bad to take popular passenger trains off regular runs to clear our tracks, and to use the equipment thus released for troopa ' to fill but remaining trains to absolute capacity. The more trains we crowd onto a stretch of track the more difficult it is to maintain fast, regular schedules. A railroad, like a highway, has its space limitations. Many of the troop trains and war freights move over.our lines on emergency schedules to which regular service mustf Receive Lieutenant Bars At Camp A dsir Gold second lieutenant bars, signifying regular army commissions la the dietetics corps, were awarded Lt. Helen Johnson (center) and Lt. Lydla Kuchler (right) at Camp Adair recently. Capt G. A. Waite, post adjutant, affixes -a bar te the collar of Lt, Johnson who is from Cervallls. Lt. Kaehler came to Camp Adair after 11-year in a government hospital at Denver. AP photo; Crain Funeral Set Thursday Graveside services for Mrs. N. J. Crain, who died in Chico, Calif., Sunday will be held at-Bellcrest cemetery here Thursday at 2 pjn. She was the mother of Harry N. Crain, managing editor of the Sa lem Capital Journal. Mrs. Crain lived in Salem, Port land and other Oregon cities be fore locating .in California. To Review Parade WEST SALEM - Mayor Gay ' Newgent ef West Salem and : Mayer L JtL Denghton mt Salem have been V" Invited by "Major, . Brenaan of the selective service te review the Memorial Day pa rade with the army ef fleers from the grand stand. - '. e - be adapted sometimes 'on short notice. So if your train. - arrives late ' or fails to leave'exactly on time we hope you'll understand: We're pushing the 'war trains throughl Our dining car : dilemma Before the' war we used to. add extra diners on crowded trains. Now we haven't got the extra diners (many are in military use, and we can't buy new ones). With severalbun dred passengers oh a train and only one 36-seat dining car, -it takes a long time to serve everyone. Compared with pre war 1940, we're now serving nearly three times as many dining car meals (a million more than any other railroad!) with no additional dining cars. We have rationing on the railroad much as you liave it at borne only bur situation is more acute because of the in creasing, number of passengers. And because of the food shortsges we can't always get supplies permitted by our . ration coupons. ' 1 In our dining cars on regular ' trains men of the armed forces traveling in groups are served first, ahead of civilians. When your turn comes in the diner, please remember other people ace probably waiting for your seat. r less time for our ; "housekeeping" chores S. P. cars are on the rails almost constantly these days, what ' with lengthened schedules and shorter pauses in terminals ' between runs. This allows less time for . thorough cleaning. If the car you ride in is not quite spic-and-span we hope youH recognize it's not because we dont know better. : ; ' In our effort to remedy one problem we sometimes create' others. For example, we provide box lunches to relieve din ing car crowding - and then we find the boxes, paper and napkins littering up our cars (particularly in coaches) Any ' aid you can give us in disposal of such litter will be much appreciated. We are hiring new help every day (over 11,000 S. P. "regulars" have gone to war, you know) but we're still . short-handed and many employees are inexperienced. . Pay Changes .-.j Occupy State Budget Heads Salary 'adjustments,' resulting from increased appropriations for Various state departments and In stitutions by the 1943 legislature, now dominate the activities of the state budget department,' Geo rge Aiken, state budget director announced Tuesday. . .: The new appropriations become operative. July 1 and carry through for two years. Aiken said the9 labor situation at state in stitutions - continues serious . be cause of high wages paid in the war industries. Virtually all state Institutions . are operating with short crews.- ""'! Nurses and - attendants at 'the ' "' J: state hospital particularly, are In demand, Aiken said. " The 1943 legislature authorized appropriations increasing wages of some employes in excess of 30 per cent. i ' Junior Chamber Hears Music - Music by Parrish junior high school pupils, presented by Prin clpal Carl Aschenbrenner, was the program for Tuesday noon's meet ing of the Salem junior chamber of commerce at the Golden Phea- sant.' ' ' ". J . A mixed .chorus, instrumental quintefjT trumpet . trio, violin solo ist and the girls triple trio pre sented numbers. i New officers will be Installed at next Tuesday's meeting of the organization. . ' ...-,. -vA? V IVARTIfAE TRAVELER'S GUIDE ...I... After the war is won, S, P. hopes to make up i to you for today's uncomfortable train travel. ! Meantime, here are some suggestions to help . you make the best of things as they are: 1. Unless your train trip la really essential ' please don't make it. . 2. If you must travel, do so on Tuesdays or Wed ; " needays or Thursdays. Avoid week-ends that's when our trains are most crowded. v 1. "Cancel space reservations promptly if your plans change. Train space is too precious nowadays to go unused. ; a 4. Travel light - take with you on the Jrain only baggage you'll need on the train. Check other - ' baggage at least a day in advance. f 5. Help stretch available train accommodationi by buying just the space you really need ' no more, no less. Share your bedroom, com partment or drawing room. ' : , 6., Eat before you board the train if "postiLle, For many trains it may be well to bring your. I" - . lunch or buy a box lunch (for lunch or an Jnealj. ' , - 7. If you eat in the dining car, please rememlef '"other folks are waiting. No need to bolt you? . : meal - but please don't linger over it. ' -f ! r Tho friendly Southorn Pacific Rules Oliclicd , Pieulations covering the stor age and transportation of explo sives- In Oregon, approved by army officials and Governor Earl Snell,'were released ft the ex ecutive department here Tuesday. , The regulations were drafted at a conference attended by Jerrcld Owen' state civilian "defense co ordinator, Charles P. "-.Pray, state police superintend ent; Seth ThomDSon. State fire marshal: Vfrfa Roeer. cLafo fnref.tpr. and Lieutenant-Colonel O. F. Kollck, northwestern sector, western de fense command. The new regulations, make" it unlawful to manufacture, sell, distribute or use explosives in Oregon except under license by the. federal bureau of mines. Transportation of explosives in terstate Is prohibited except un der rules" of the Interstate com merce commission while , trans portation of explosives interstate is ; banned except ' under publ utilities department rules. ' Stor age of explosives must be in com pliance .with regulations of the ' State' fire marshal. TEXTURE Smooth . . . Jut rigtt for toMtui9 end sandwich. At ' Youa GROCa'S L