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Bariiams Win
Contract for
New Cannery
Barham Brothers, 14SJ State
street. , Saturday were awarded
the contract for toe -rebuilding ef
the Producer! Cooperative Pack
J in company plant at 169 North
Commrcial street, W. H. Woods,
t manager announced 4 fter opening
the bids submitted by , four eon
i tractor. Woodi -ald: tha new
biulding, machinery and equip
ment would coat about $110,000.
Sub-eontractors who will par
ticipate in . the project include
rHanson-Lfljequist, mill work; Bos
lr rETectric comwmj. electric
-work: Fred Bernardi,!; plumbing
I and steam fitting; Etdon T.Arm
atrdntr. naintinc Salem Iron
'Works, miscellaneous steel; Mercer
' Steel company, structural steel and
Salem Sand and Gravel company.
excavations, grading and sand and
gravel used in concrete work.
Woods said the new plant would
be completed by May IS and said
also that before completion many
: installatiens would "be-made, fa-
l cilitating use of the plant.
L. P. Bartholomew la the archi
tect on, the project
The plant which recently burned
v. ill be rebuilt on old piers "and
' footings and the dimensions will
be about 160. by 190 feet The
.packing -plant is fcomprised of two
floors. Reinforce concrete Is plan
ned for the interior of tne struc
ture with exteriors of wood.
The firm's offices will be built
at one end of he building and
firewalls erected between the com
bined cannery and packing house,
To eliminate, as nearly "as it is
, ipdsibleteeliminate fire hazards,
. asbestos siding, high, pressure
i steam heating, concrete, slab floor
and steel will be used in the com
position of the new structure. Two
freight elevators and a hydraulic
passenger elevator wUt be installed.
The OFXGON STATESMAN. Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning, January 23, 1915
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S A SINGERS Gladys Swaxtheat. concert singer, dene
v r Salration Army bonnet and joins choristers la s hyma.
Home May Get Opportunity
To Display How It Feels
' . About JonesrWallace Case
Br The Washington Staff ef the Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27-Ph:The house may get an opportunity to
show how It feels about 'the Jones-Wallace case too. Some members
forecast a reaction jcool to Wallace. f v ' ,
The annual appropriation bill for the department of commerce is
slated to come up for consideration late in February. When Jesse
Jones headed the department, the appropriations committee was in
clined-to give him substantially!
the money he asked to operate his ;
major "programs. The house fol
lowed suit. 1 I
But if Henry allace is sec
retary of commerce, certain com
mittee members sajy some of the
sharpest cuts of this year will be
applied to the department's funds.
They say also that; efforts will be
made to write restrictions on its
activities into the! appropriation
bilL I -
f he hadn't been he president'
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Jack Lib!ea,
Former Salem
Resident, Dies
Jack A. Libbea, 4), and for
many years a resident of Salem,
died January 8 in Los Angeles as
' the result of an automobile acci
dent dining a fog in downtown
Los Angeles. Ho wa a passenger
conductor on the Golden State
Limited ef the Southern Pacific
at the time of his death.
Funeral services were held Jan
uary 13 in Los Angeles. Survivors
are the, widow, May Libbea in
Los Angeles; thre children, Jack
Libbea, jr., army, air corps in
ItalyS TSgt Leslie L.' Libbea,
armyj air corps, Kelly field, Tex.,
and a married daughter, Nina, who
lives j in Michigan; also a sister,
Mrs. ,Nina Matt&on, 2104 North
Church street, Salem; ; . . , j.
- He was born in Wisconsin and
worked for the Northern Pacific
for many years, later going with
the Southern Pacific. JFor .21 years
before he worked on locals and
freights before taking the passen
ger run in 1943,
Hej.was an Elk and a Mason
and . a member of the Order of
Bailway Trainmen and the Order
of Railway Conductors.
Stay - at - homo Vice President
Truman says he knows of no long
trips in the offing such as Henry
Wallace frequently made on the
president's assignment. Mary Mar
garet Truman, his daughter,
speaks Spanish, "and he says he
will depend on her! if he ever has
to deal with any good neighbors
who. don't speak English.
Truman has told friends he
hopes he can go back to congress
if there is nothing more enticing
in sight when he serves out his
term. He'd dike either a senate
or a house seat, depending on va
eancies.
Canadian fix - - Canadian au
-is-,:-- 1 - ...),
thorities ere reported to be agl
tated (frpm , the : post-war com
mercial aviation point .of: view)
over the 'air transport command';
new policy of carrying pild pas
sengers. They hesitate to raise the
subject because ATC has been
generous about priorities for Ca
nadians, t:
Navy cheer - - nothing in quite
a while has given the navy high
command such a lift as the daring
body-blows by Admiral "Bull"
Halsey against the Japanese in
the South China sea The navy's
role from here on will be to push
air-sea supremacy to the utmost
Farm department two new bat
tles are shaping up in congress
over farm questions: " .
1. Over wartime food subsidies.
The administration i seeks to erase
a xan against such payments aft
er. July 1. It contends they are
essential to hold down prices and
prevent inflation. 1
Hearings on a bill to continue
them probably will lopen this com
ing week. Rep. Wblcott (Mich)
ranking. GOP member on the
banking committee comments
" Vt e expect some interest devel
opments." i -
i. Over farm prices - - If pro
posals being discussed by war food
administration art) sponsored by
the White House.
The government' now is com
mitted to support most farm prod
ucts at not less than CO per cent
of parity for two years after
peace. WFA officials say this
would lead to excess production
of some items - - including cotton
and wheat. The commitment has
strong backing fr&m farm , con
gressmen and organizations. "
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Medical School
ites Record of
Aiding Service
A major feature of the Univers
ity of Oregon medical school dur
ing recent years has been that of
training - doctors and nurses for
the armed forces-In as short a time
as possible, a formal report filed
with the legislature said , Saturday.--
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By June, 1944, a total of 128
members of the . medical school
faculty was on duty , in the tnedi
cal corps of the services. l -V"
The report stressed the clinical
features afforded in the hospital
clinics of . the m e d i c a 1 school
(Multnomah, ' county), Emanuel
hospital, Good Samaritan hospital
and a number, of similar institu
tions. The Multnomah hospital, the
report said, is a charity institution
and accommodates 250 beds.' Con
templated additional units will in
crease the capacity to 500 beds.
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Navy Pilot Visiting
With Zena Relative
ZENA Lti Tommy L. Bur bee,
jr., navy pilot who has been .in the
Southwest Pacific, in the Admir
alty islands ia year was a' guest
this week of his uncle and aunt,
Mr. and Mrs! Clarence F. Merrick.
He will gv to Florida for ad
vanced training when he leaves
here in February. & .
! Lieutenant; Burbee was disap
pointed when he planned to see
his cousin, Chester Merrick, son
of the Clarence F, Merncks, be
HERO Warraat Officer
Geonre K. Tweed, sarrrror of SI
months e Guam daring Jag
ecapatioBv inspects .45 caliber
scatter shot cartridges at Bern
tnrtoa ' Arms jslant at Bridge-'
pert. Conn. They are Intended te
-. sheet small game for feed.
fore coming home, missing him by
an . hour as he had shipped j out.
Thursday Lieutenant Burbee went
to McMinnville to visit his ma
ternal grandmother, Mrs. Bessie
Holdredge. i J ;
More Dimes
Are Needed, to
Fight Disease -
With four " days, remaining In
the Marion county drive for $15,
000 as its share of the 1945 cam
paign of the National: Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, R. W. Ilin
ton, campaign chairman, Satur
day eaUed for increased "giving
by individuals td enable this area
to do ita share in the crusade
against poliomyelitis, f 'T - -;
The Willamette university side
walk booth on liberty street, has
collected $519.37 since it was X
up. An individual gift , of $100
trom the Benson Baking company,
a f collection, of . $23.05 from the
Aumsville schools,' and a ;contrl-
bution of $5 from the American
Lesion Auxiliary, were reported,
Half the money raised eacn
year is left in the area contribu
ting tt to finance the services oi
trie local chapter in batUing the
scrooge," Minton said. "The Mar
lon county chapter, and more
than 3,000 other similar units in
counties throughout the yrutea
States render immediate aid. to
all polio victims regardless oi age,
race, creed or color. The local
chapter forms the first line of
defense in. time of epidemics. -
Minton said the National Foun
dation and its .chapters i cannot
afford . to wait until the " mid
summer polio season.' to find out
what might or might, not happen,
and. preparations -made' early in
IMS ';' mad possible immediate
treatment; of cases in ! sporadic
outbreaks of the disease along the
west coast, Texas,
Kansas and Illinois. ' 1
Under national iounanuu
grants and through financing by
its chapters the work of train
ing doctors, nurses, and, physical
therapy technicians ia the Kenny
method of treatment Is pursu"r
Navy Chaplain Amity
Speaker on Sunday
4 AMTTY Capt. jaaicora
aBinger, V. S. navy , chaplaui,
Will be the guest speaker t tht
Amity-Methodist church Sunday
iaorning, January 28. His topic
wSbeKeepinf Faith With the
Men in Blue."
j .m,.niain TtallinEer has served in
thr Europeaa war tbtet fT
teveral months and was severely
mounded. He. and the pastor oj
the Amity church, . Rev. Charles
runk, were ' fellow students, t
Theological Seminary in Boston
in 1834.
Scouts to Aid.
Paper Drive
Scout A troops and Individual
niembers Of winning troops are to
be .warded special trophies di
rect frqm Gen. Dwight D. Eisen-
hower, wmmander. of allied arm
ies in Europe, who is promoting
from the battlefield Paper sal
vage campaign on the homefront.
Each troop participating In the
driva February 4 wiU receive a
cardboard! ghell container bearing
the autograph of the generaL Ev
ery Boy Scout who collect 1000
pounds ei,paP wiu et PW -award..
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The drive will be strictly a curb
pickup. Residents are requested
by the scout authorities to bundle
the paper: In bundles which the
Boy Scouts can .carry and to have
them on ithe ; curbe. :,y;
20 Saving ca Fire Insurance
Without sacrifict of safety ..
Good Insor'anca risks nee no longer pay for the bad.,
BUY. ''GENERAL AT HUGGINS OFFICE
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INSURANCH
"Oregon9 Largest Upstate Agency",
Sodem cmd Marsnneia
129 N. Commercial Salem - 4400 .
Scene, changes - - Here's an
other clew indicating the German
ii i t ?
counter-attack in Belgium caught
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even some
unawares.
Early
high army manners
n December the : army
was working full blast oa a plan
to counsel civilian leaders "on how
to help vast numbers of demo
bilized soldiers back into civilian
life. Publicity was to begin soon
after New Year's. Now the plan
has been! indefinitely soft-ped
aled. . : i
(Note: certain treasury officials,
taking their cue from the mili
tary, had i been forming : recom
mendations for easing of corpora
tion taxes on the theory 1945
would be a reconversion year.)
Former Salem
Resident Tells
Of War Work
!
Greta Harris Permenter, form
er resident of Salem and daughter
of the. late Mr. and Mrs. Emerson
Harris, well known Polk county
couple, has written, her aunt, Mrs.
Olive Reddaway. 1421 North
Church street, of her work in the
Lockheed airplane factory in
southern California. V
Mrs. Permenter was attending
the University of Oregon when
she went south following her mar
riage to B. I. Permenter. Soon
afterwards she started to work as
a welder at Lockheed and reached
top rating at a spot welder some
months co. When &h luri tM.
rating she was able to gain per-S? LOIslOn JUICO KOCIDO
mission for transfer to template? " -i ' - ,
work, for which she had taken ! ChOCiCS RnOUITiatlC
nignt wors to qualify.
In the new work, she gets to
use ali my math and also teach
It to new workers," she writes.
Templates are patterns which are
made in metal from ", the ; blue
prints, she explains to her aunt.
Her husband is also employed at
Lockheed. Mrs. A.' & Austin j of
Wood burn is another aunt of Mrs.
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Peter Ditchen Dies '
At Portland Hospital
SILVERTON, Jan. p r- Peter
Ditchen, 1 38, native of ; Marion
county and resident of route sev
en, Saleiri, died Saturday morn
ing in -a Portland hospital. Fu
neral announcements are. to be
made later by the Ekman Funeral
home..-' , K " - :p ; r
Survivors include the widow,
Gladys Ditchen, and children,
Marian and . Kenneth, at home;
mother, Mrs. Frank Ditchen, Sil-
verton; brothers, Frank of Salem,
Joe in the South Pacific, Carl and
Reuben Ditchen of Silverton, i and
sisters, Mrs. Dean Schaap, Sil
verton; Mrs. Arthur DeVries and
Mrs. Ralph Carl, both of Salem.
In the fishbowl -j - military men
back from Europe quote Elliott
Roosevelt's superior officers as
saying he would have been nom
inated brigadier general long ago
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W wlii ba dosed oil day
Wednesdcrf, January 31st
for Inventory. -: :
Open aqaln as usual at 9:30
A. M.! Thursday, February
1st' '
vllonlgonery Vart!
IS N.LibeHy v " Phone 3194
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Free Lecture On
Chris tian Science ' ;
Salen Senior .Ilijh'Schssl Audiicrhn, 14lh nnd.D Si.
by ilrllim- C. Whilnoy, CSj
. of Cbicacjb. EL ; . ' .
Member of the Board ef Lectureship of The Molher Church, The First Church of h
Christ Scientist la Boston. Massachusetts. Auspices' First Church of
Christ, SdentisL Salem. Oregon. . J'
IIoniay Evc-Inj; January 11W c! 3 P. II. ,
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Tm e booby trap expert, but even the expert get lmoclced
sJyJ off. I got mine in a preinvtuion reheenal in England.
Someone plundered against a booby trap I.tvaejvorliing on,
and I got a piece of brass if my .forehead and another in my
left eye. They toolt meto. an, evacuation hospital where an
Army nurse gava me penicillin, stopped the bleeding, covered
my eyes, and gave ma pills to put ma to sleep. But she did
mora than that $ha saved my tight. Before J went to sleep I
heard a medical officer commend her ingenuity. She placed ma
flat in bed and propped my head in place, by putting sandbags
-on either side so I could nt move it. Tha doctor said she saved
my sight became if I had moved my head, tha piece of metal
i my ey would ht? ripped my, eye and they couUnt S)f)
v have saved it. Til always remember that smiling nurse. J J
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ALL WOMEN CAN HILPJ - " j
If you are.untrained take a home nursing or nurse's aide course. - - ' -
; If you are a senior cadet nurse serve yonr final six months ol v
training in an Army hospital. . , ; " :
; If you are a registered nurse join the U. 3. Army Nurse Corps. "
You mar mean the difference Between life and death to our- -wounded
men. Visit r write your local; Red Cross chapter
fori fall information and application blank. Or communicate 1
with the Surgeon General, U. 8. Army. Washington 23, D. C.
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NURSES ARI NEEDED NOW.
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