1 Tho Statesman. Salem, Orogon. Tuesday. August 28. 1847
Knowledge of Land Priorities
For Ex-Owners Denied by Court
Maricn count court Monday denied any knowledge that the for
mer l&nd owner ff the farm labor camp property had a legal priority
n repurchasing the land which was sold to the government in 1942
as part ct Salem airport emergency expansion program.
The information wa contained
m a letter from Marion County
Judfe Grant Murphy to Roy
Hewitt, attorney for the six
former cwnen who petitioned the
court lut week for the right to
have fjnt chance at buying back
their fcrmcr property.
"It i my information" Judge
Murphy's letter states, "that the
former land owners of the prop
erty acquired for the expansion
of the tirport do not have any
priority, " that if they choose to
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purchase it they would have to
do so on a basis of appraisal of
the property to which should be
added the land value and the
appraised value of improvements."
"If these former owners do
have a priority, I would suggest
that they ro ahead and exercise
it as we have no intention of in
terfering with any plans made by
former owners with the govern
ment." Judge Murphy also states that
if it develops that the county has
first priority in the matter, the
county intends to convey the prop
erty under federal regulation to
Agricultural Housing Inc. He
further indicates the county court
will exercise only such priority
"as has been tendered to us if and
when the purchase money is
tendered to us and the plan of
transfer has been approved by
the district attorney."
Arrangements for purchase of
the land by the?countjr for event
ual transfer to Agricultural Hous
ing, Inc., are now in progress.
Hewitt said Monday that the
former owners he represents still
claim priority to the land and
intend to continue pressing "their
rights."
Chin-Up Clubbers
Guests of Eyerlys
More than 100 members of the
Chin-Up Club of Oregon were en
tertained Sunday afternoon at the
Lee U. Eyerly home on South
River road. The Salem Sorop-
timists club assisted the Eyerly
family as hosts for the serving of
I lunch and the afternoon entertain
ment.
.The Salem Saddle club and Ore
gon Mounted posse presented
horse events and several planes
were ftown from the Eyerly air
field. Vocal solos were given by
Ronald Craven, accompanied by
his wife, and Elizabeth Nelson,
accompanied by Jean Fidler.
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Salem Day Not Off
For State Workers
The state board of control Mon
day turned thumbs down on a pro
posal to close state departments
on the afternoon of Salem day,
Wednesday, September 3, at the
Oregon state fair.
It was argued that state depart
ment employes will be free to at
tend the fair on three days La
bor day, Saturday and the closing
Sunday. State workers are now on
a five-day week.
Housing List
For Veterans
To Be Started
The Salem Housing authority,
through Joseph H. Hopkins, vet
erans' housing colony manager,
announced Monday a service to
alleviate many cases of waiting on
the part of veterans and their
families for rental housing in the
Salem area.
Hopkins said that between 200
and 300 names are on the waiting
list for housing within the local
veterans' housing project and that
every day he could give informa
tion to persons applying for rentals
in this area if he had a list of such
housing available at his office.
As a free service to veterans and
owners who have rentals of any
type in this area, Hopkins will re
ceive by telephone or letter at the
housing authority office any in
formation on available rentals, he
said.
With such a list on hand, he ex
pects to be able to refer veterans
to rentals. He advised owners of
rentals to write him at the Salem
Housing authority or call him at
4521.
BURIAL PLANS MADE
SEATTLE. Au. 25-WfV-Ma'i
burial services for 32 marines will
be held high on Mount Rainier if
mountain experts decide removal
of their bodies would endanger
rescuers' lives, marine corps head
quarters in Washington, D. C
said today in a dispatch to the
13th naval district
Reds Release 3 Yanks;
Tension Remains High
SEOUL, Korea, Aug. 25-f4')-Three teen-age American soldiers.
freed after 12 days in Russian custody, said today they were well
treated but were kept under tommygun guard and got such unap-i
petizing meals that "we'll never gripe about GI chow again." j
Their release followed two stiff protests from Lt. Gen. John R. i
Hodge, commandant of the American zone of southern Korea.
Soviet - American relation in
Korea continued tense,, as Maj.
Gen. Albert E. Brown joined
Hodge in a sharp reply to Friday's
Russian accusation that "mass ar
rests" of leftist leaders ?in the
American zone were impeding the
work of the deadlocked joint com
mission on a Korean government.
Brown, chief of the American
delegation on the commission, is
sued a statement declaring that
the Russian charges were "pure
fantasy" and "pure propaganda"
intended to create "a smoke screen
to obscure certain strategic blun
ders of the soviet delegation."
The three freed American sol
diers also held a news confer
ence. . They were T5 Tommy F.
Pugsley, 19, of Renton, Wash.;
Pfc. John D. Hopfe, 19, of Seattle,
and Pfc. Gerald K. Geffen, 18, of
Port Chester, N. Y., who stayed
across the 38th parallel dividing
the occupation zones on Aug. 12
and were released yesterday.
The soldiers said they were
unfamiliar with the region, where
they were inspecting a telephone
line. They theorized that a Kor
ean section hand on the adjoin
ing railroad may have hidden the
border post by hanging his coat
on it.
Geffen said the Russians took
them to the nearby village of
Yohyon-Ni and promised that an
American officer would come for
them that evening.
At that moment, however, a
Korean brought in a cheap cam
era which Pugsley had dropped.
This apparently caused the Rus
sians to change their minds, for
the Americans .were taken north
by train and car a distance they
estimated to be about 100 miles.
They were held; in a soviet bar
racks four days and then moved
Council Grants Building Use;
Election Proposal Withdrawn
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Salem's city council Monday night voted to lease the city building
at Pringle park to Mrs. F.-W. Belt of Salem for the operation of a stan
dard kindergarten, beginning next mdhth. She is to pay $50 a month,
maintain the place and make it available evenings to the Cascade Boy
bcout council, which now oper
ates the building for scout and
other activities.
Other developments in the city
hall council meeting:
Alderman Albert C. Gflle with
drew his bills for an October 7
popular vote on j eliminating the
election of aldermen by wards.
He said he believed elections at
large more consistent with a city
manager government, but ack
nowledged that opposition in the
council was too strong.
Plaa Taxi Fare Bost
A taxicab ordinance amendment
was ordered drawn to raise the
maximum fare from State street
to either north or south city lim
its from 75 cents to $1. Taxi pro
prietors Lynn Clark and Arthur
Madsen asked the change in view
of city boundary extensions andi
rising costs of operation since the
taxi law was adopted last year.
City Manager J, L. Franzen was
instructued to confer with taxi
companies on the possibility of
taxi meter Installations in all Sa
lem taxis.
The city manager was author
ized to negotiate with the state for
a traffic signal light at the Capitol
street Junction with Fairgrounds
road.
Parking was ordered prohibited
at all times on the south side of
Division street in the vicinity of
the Hunt Bros, cannery. '
An ordinance was passed to ex
tend from 10 to 15 days the time
limit after a city ordinance pass
age for filing of referendum peti
tions. Swltchiaff Alleviated
Franzen reported local railroad
agents had agreed to halt all train
switching operations across street
intersections at traffic peak hours
of 7:30-8:30 a. m., noon-1 p. m.
and 5-6 p. m.
Public hearing was set for 8
p. m. September 22. on a request
for council permission for erection
of a Full Gospel church on Capitol
at Hood streets.
1 Action was deferred on request
ed zone change from class III
(business) to class IV (industrial)
for Glen H. Anderson on three
lots near Hoyt street just west of
the Southern Pacific tracks. Near
by property owners objected in an
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appearance before the council and
a city zoning commission letter
requested more time for study.
At suggestion of Kenneth Hut-
chins, 2514 N. River rd., the coun
cil voted to ask the city zoning
commission to study the proposed
annexation north of the city with
an eye to an extension of Com
mercial and Liberty streets as
through streets.
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to a Korean house occupied by
Russians.
The 'Americans agreed that they
were not closely questioned, nev
er anything about American in
stallations or operations and their
wallets were not even inspected.
Upon the release, the Russians
handed back two confiscated car
bines and Pugsley's camera, in
which they had changed the film.
Priest Slain
With Sickles
TRIESTE, Aug. 25 - (T- - The
allied military government was
informed today that a sickle
wielding mob Iwheaded a catholic
priest and seriously wounded a
prelate from the Vatican during
a Sunday confirmation service in
a village near Pisino, 30 miles
southwest of Trieste in Yugoslav
occupied Venezia Giulia.
An AMG officer said that Msgr
Antonio Santin, bishop of Trieste
and CapodiMi a, identified the as
sailants as Yugoslavs.
The dead priest was the Rev.
Miro Bulesich, and the wounded
prelate the Mcgr Giaeomo Uwmar.
Ukmar.
The Italian language newspaper
La Voce Libera in Trieste said the
mutiliated body of a third priest
who had been missing for a week
was found in a woods. He was
identified as father Kirstian,
parish priest of Tolazzo in Istria.
The body bore marks of "horrible
torture," the newspaper said.
Dorau Testifies
On Return Rate
For Phone Firm
Dr. Herbert B. Dorau, professor
of economics at New York uni
versity rand chairman of the de
partment of public utilities there,
appeared as a witness for Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph com
pany, seeking a rate increase of
$2,249,000 based on its Oregon
operations, at the hearing here
Monday.
The telephone company con
tends that its present net rate of
return is slightly more than 2
per cent, while Assistant Attorney
General Rex Kimmell said that,
based on certain exhibits now be
fore the hearing, the rate may be
as high as 8 per cent. Dorau's
testimony was expected to lead up
to a suggested definite rate of
return for the company.
An exhibit Introdutf d by
Fletcher Rockwood, company at
torney for the Oregon area, show
ed the reduction of dollar values
based on wholesale, consumer and
retail food prices as well as prices
received by - the farmers.
Dorau stated that consideration
in providing a fair rate of return
for the Pacific company should
be based on over-all general busi
ness conditions in all sections of
the U. S., particularly the Pacific
coast, in replying to a direct ques
tion by Attorney Rockwood. The
treatment of the present investor
goes far in influencing the poten
tial investor, he said.
The witness said- that it was
preferable to secure new investors
when securing finances rather
than to pyramid the investments
of old investors.
Kimmell and Marian Rushing,
deputy' city attorney, Portland,
were expected to start cross-examination
of the witness today.
Deposed Ecuador
Head Repudiates
Forced Quitting
BOGOTA, Colombia, Aug. 25 -W-Jose
Maria Vela sea Ibarra, de
posed president of Ecuador, today
repudiated his resignation from
office on the ground that it had
been executed under compulsion.
The exiled president, in an in
terview on his arrival at Call
following the bloodless ' revolt
which ousted him from office Sun
day, said that his resignation was
"meaningless" because be had
been deprived of his liberty at the
time it was signed.
Rides Urged
For Neighbors
CORVALLIS, Aug. 25.-(rVTh
Oregon flying farmers were urged
today by their president to en
courage air-mindedness by giving
their neighbors pleasant, stunt
free rides.
Harold Steen, Minton. told the
flying Farmers association second
annual convention that the air
plane's main advantage to farmers
is fast, economical transportation.
Farm landing strips for mall
planes need be only about 2.000
feet long and 100 feet wide. W.C.
Hill, engineer for the state board
of aeronautics, told the 76 delegates.
State Fair Taboos
Games of Chance
There will be no games of
chance at this year's state fair,
Leo Spitzbart, fair manager,
stressed Monday. "We will not
even' admit Gypsy fortune tel
lers and all entertainment con
cessions will be watched closely,
Spitzbart declared. Chief of Po
lice Frank Minto said he would
cooperate.
200 Head of Slock
Here for Fair Rodeo
More than 200 head of rodeo
stock for the Oregon state fair's
combined rodeo-horse show ar
rived on the grounds Monday
from the San Joaquin fair in
Stockton, Calif. The combined
state fair show will be held night
ly starting lbor day.
DAILY PABI-MUTUEL HORSE RACING
COMBINED RODEO-HORSE SHOW EVERT NIGHT
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I STATE FAIR FOLLIES OF 1947 EACH EVENING
8 BLOCKS OF MIDWAY FARM MACHINERY SHOW
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Th monthly paychck to our employees has been
petting bigger all the time. In a year's time it has grown
from nearly $13,500,000 to about $16,000,000. Thou
sands of new people have come with us to JhcJp with
the big job we must do to meet the West's tremendous
growth . . . and our employees are getting the best
pay rates ever.
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mighty important people . . . not only in the lives of
our 67,000 employees . . . but in your life, too. For
they write thousands of checks each month. And all
these checks, as they go into circulation, add to the
total prosperity of everyone living in the communi
ties we serve in the Pacific West.
New Working Dollars Mil.
lions of new dollars needed to build
buildings and buy new equipment
to meet the public demand for more
telephones and more service do not
About 60 ctntf of each dollar you pay for service is
for employees . . . almost all the rest goes for taxes and
other operating expenses. A few cents of each dollar
go to more than 700,000 people, many of them West
erners, whose savings built the telephone system. Yes,
your telephone dollar serves you, the butcher, th
baker and the whole cpmmunity.
come
from telephone bills. New
dollars come from people who art
willing to put their savings Into the
business. We must earn enough to
attract these new working dollars.
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