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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1948)
t The StaWaaa an. SaUm. Oiocon. Thursday. January t W Pudding River Area Farmers Talk of District A rapacity crowd of landowners of the proposed Pudding river water control district Jammed the Parkersville achoet Wednesday night to hear Pery T. Bur en, Salem attorney, dutcu the law pased by the 1947 legislature which authorizes creation of such district. Buren explained that landown er representing 20 per cent o( the average in any proposed water control district, under the new law, may petition the county court to set time and place to hold an election to determine whether the district may or may not be formed. If no such petition is entered the county ciurt may then determine if the district will be creatert. The districts, to be formed for puipofccs of flood control, drain age, water control and Irrigation, miy enter into an agreement with the federal government for granu-in-aid and mar make agreement for contractural re lationship between the district and the federal government to finance the district, Buren stated. The water control districts may also levy assessments providing for a 2-m.ll per dollar ad valorem tax on lands included in the dis tricts and call elections to provide for additional a aa eminent over and above the ad vakrem tax to finance tne projects, Buren said. Property owners of the proposed district will meet again Friday at the Hazel Dell school at S p. m. to further discuas the feasibility of forming the district. New First Aid Car Arrives; Ceremony Set Salem's new f 10.000 first aid car arrived in the city capital Wednes day as Capt. C. M. Charlton of the fire department completed his tr. with it from an Oh factory. The big red Cadillac wilt be of ficially in service Saturday fol lowing formal presentation cere monies on the city hall steps at 1 30 p. m. that day. On Thursday and Fnda the new emergency car will be displayed at Valley Motor Co. showrooms. Financed by organised labor in Salem, the car will be turned over ta Mayor R. L. Elfstrom by the fund raising committee of the Sa lem Trades and Labor council which made pewsible replacement ef the old first aid car which has been up fcr' repairs several times tn the past two years. Presentation will be made by H. C. Barker, labor executive sec retary here, and master of cere monies will be William J. Entrees. Other committeemen of the labor council will be present, including George T ho ma son. Paul Nichol son. Wade Carter and Fenimore Baggett. A talk on safety is to be made by Paul Gurske. a labor represen tative on the state industrial acci dent commission. The ceremony is to be broadcast over station KOCO. I) Eo IE GREAT IlEDDCTIOII Sired Dresses Uash Frocks Sports Ucar Children's Coals Children's Dresses Silverton Man Killed by Truck John Henry Drake, 62. Silver- ton route 1. was killed Instantly about 7 pan. Wednesday when struck by a logging truck on the Silverton-Marquam highway near Miller's hill, three miles north of Silverton, Marion County Coroner Virgil Golden reported. Driver of the truck. Roy J. Wel ter, said that the victim was driv ing a herd of cattle across the highway in the darkness when the accident occurred. Walter said he skidded and braked his truck in an attempt to avoid hitting Drake, but the rear end of the truck struck him as the vehicle swung around. The truck plunged into a ditch, but remained upright and Welter was not injured. Golden said. Drake's body was taken to the Elk man funeral home after the ac cident He is survived by a wife and a daughter. Meyers Enters Innocent Pleas WASHINGTON, Jan. g. -()-Ma J. Gen. Bennett E. Mayers pleaded innocent today to charges that he perjured himself before senate investigators inquiring into his wartime private deals and that he caused another to swear false ly also. Federal Judge Da rid A. Pine, before whom Meyers was arraign ed, set the trial of the retired air force procurement officer for Feb ruary II. Bleriot H. Lamarre, Ji, pleaded guilty yesterday to three charges of perjury arising out of the same investigation. Lamarre once told senate investigators that Meyers had no connection with the Avia tion Electric company of Dayton, O., then changed his story and said the general was the real own er and chief recipient of the firm's profits. Marine Corps Reserv e Adds 12 New Men Twelve new recruits were In ducted into Salem's marine corps reserve unit in a meeting at the Salem airport Wednesday night. Commandant Maj. Leonard Hicks reported. Signing up were Joe Woods, Raymond Eagle, Larry Arthur, and Vernon Adrian Lane, all of Chemawa: Robert William Cole, Walter Jack Woodfield and Dale Michael Jefferson, all of Salem; William Francis Carleton. jr Stayton: Richard William Fether ston. Lyons and Melvin L. Eagle man, Toledo. Included in Wednesday's drill session was instruction on the du ties of firing battery personnel, description of EE- telephone and switchboard BD-71-71 and indivi dual instruction with arms. Too Lai to CUaoIfT ULXT MOLD, single rare H. yds. SIS. ocltwrvd. Ptoone SMS STu()ttnrW4Uln. floe, ttl MWtw Ph. 143 IS fcNAMITw60D ranee, copper coils, la good, condition, Ml Ktchmond. SchooDs, Coads Close, FamiDies ulvacuaie, Boy (Drowns as Flood! Reaches (V3 id-Valley Valley Points Report Flood Preparations The death of a 20-months-old boy by drowning in high water near Stayton was the Marion coun ty area's first fatality of the cur rent flood season Wednesday when schools and roads in many sections closed and householders in danger sections moved out or took protec tive measures against oncoming flood waters. Schools were closed Wednesday and will remain closed today at Silverton high school, all Keizer, Talbot, Turner and Aumsville schools and Detroit grade school. Among highlight flood reports from Statesman correspondents of the mid-valley area and reported by Valley Editor Marguerite Glee son, were the following dispatches: Stayton STAYTON Terry An tone Moravec, 20-months-old, drowned about noon Wednesday when he fell in a ditch in front of the family home eight miles east of Stayton. The body was found un der a culvert on the driveway leading from the home to the Fern Ridge road, 13 minutes after the child was last seen. The father. An tone Moravec, found the body, the mother was ill. The child had gone out to play, dressed in snow suit and galoshes for the rain had swollen the wat ers in the ditch. The boy was an only child. Fu neral services will be held at 130 p.m. Saturday from Weddle , Fu neral home here. Silverton SILVERTON High school stu dents at Silverton were among the few who had no quarrel with the heavy rains which have Drought floods to much of the countryside. for their school closed Wednesday. Junior high and the grade schools are being carried on as usual. Sewers along James street near the high school are not adequate to carry a flood load. A. B. An derson, superintendent of schools, explained. A small stream, back water from toilets and showers, was running down hallways Wednesday and fully three inches of water covered the new linoleum recently laid on the high school kitchen floor. Classes will resume Friday. What to do with garbage was also a worry as the city dump. where garbage is disposed or. was marooned. Water was receding rapidly late this afternoon in creeks ad jacent to Silverton and danger of more flooding was considered over. Only a trickle of water was flowing over the Mt, Angel-Su verton highway Wednesday night. but water still made Impassable the lower Salem-SUverton high way. Drift creek left its banks at Kuenzi bridge Tuesday night and this morning, making long de tours necessary for those on the wrong side of tne deep creek. Basements in Silverton were in water this morning, and the fire department equipment was used to pump out those sullenng most. One small washout was re norted in the Brush Creek dist rict where a small stream under mined a small portion of pave ment, making guards and flares necessary. West Salem WEST SALEM Like a well oiled machine, city officials and employes and merchants along Edgewater street moved in on the threatened flood from the WU lamette river Wednesday night. Councilmen In a special session heard Mayor Walter Musgrave report that the 27 families liv ing in the Riverside camp ground had moved out. Fifteen of the families had been living in trailers on the river side of the camp and 12 in cabins on the opposite side of Edgewater. The trailers were all moved and the other 12 families found new locations, Musgrave reported. As councilmen came to the meeting they passed the stores along Edgewater street, many of which were being readied for the expected high water if It ma terializes, the fourth such visits tion since 1943. Meanwhile city employes headed by Police Chief W. P. Davidson and Ward Barrett, waited more or leas patiently for the council meeting to end so they might be gin hoisting the two pumps in the IT" K9 ft. High High St. at Marie rhene MIS I Pi A 11 Willamette Valley River Crests Compiled by Salem Station, U. 8. Weather Bureau i Latest ' Height Place Wednesday SALEM 23 ( Albany . 21 Jefferson 21.8 Oregon City 13.2 15.1 -lOJ 18.6 -J6.2 15.7 Portland -. Mehama Harrisburg - Waterloo . Eugene Previous river crests at Salem 1946 26.7: Dec. 30. 1945 28.4; Jan. Feb. 9. 191626.0; Nov. 25, 1909 30.7; Feb. 6, 190731.3; (estimated) Jan. 15, 1901 31.5; Feb. , 189037.1; Jan. 1, 188136.3; Dec 4, 186139.0. basement of the city hall. They will store the pumps and seal the welli until the flood waters re cede. Because he was unable to borrow hoist, Councilman Chester Douglas this afternoon purchased a hoist for use in pulling up the pumps. His action was approved by the council. Plans for shutting off city water Friday morning were abandoned because flood conditions prevent the planned reservoir repairs. Members directed Police Chief Davidson to have a grate Installed on the Wallace road culvert which was plugged up Wednesday morn ing because of pieces of slab wood and odd boards the origin of which no one could account. Jefferson JEFFERSON Santiam river rose 4 feet in tne last z nours ind stood at 21 feet at 4:30 Wednesday afternoon. The old sec tion of the Pacific highway ME, south of Jefferson, Is overrun by water when the river reacnes slightly more than 20 feet and Homeowners Flood Gty HaU With Reauests M. (Story also on page 1) Calls from homeowners to the city engineer's office Wednesday dropped off to only 2 per cent of the 400 received Tuesday night, as the let-up in rain provided re lief from flooded basements and sewers throughout the city. Local utilities experienced lit tle difficulty from the high water. although Portland General Elec tric had a wary eye on a 24,000- volt line with poles near the wa ter-covered and closed section of the Pacific highway near Canby. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. reported only minor line trou bles and noted that absence of wind with the heavy rain has been to its advantage. Marion county Red Cross office in Salem reported that rescue workers had taken three families off Brown's island Wednesday and one family off Minto's island. Res-' cuers were sent to Minto s island Wednesday afternoon to move a herd pf cattle to higher ground and brought a man and his wife back to Salem on their return trip. Meanwhile, 27 West Salem and several nearby island families evacuated to higher ground and low ground residents on both sides of the river here prepared for higher water today. Two dogs found swimming against the strong current near Brown's island were taken aboard the rescue boats and brought to safety. Two families, flooded out of their homes near the Roberts ar ea, were given housing in Salem by the Red Cross, and another fa mily left strandeeVin Salem were furnished housing in an auto court by the organization. Marion county bridge foreman Theodore Kuenzi early this morn ing said only one county bridge a small bridge in the Lake Labish area had collapsed because of high waters. The bridge, over a small stream on a side road, gave way at one end because of a slide. School Boards Permitted To Excuse Pupils 16-18 School boards, under the 1947 laws, have authority to excuse a child between the ages of 16 and 18 years from attending school, provided such child has completed the first eight grades of school and if, in the judgment of the board, good cause exists for such excuse, Attorney General George Neuner ruled here Tuesday. vTA Rom where After a long, hard day's week ea the f ana, Thad's isea ef hew te spend an eveaiag is te take eft his shsss, aad relax with saeUew glass ef heer. Bat his missus has other ideas. After being la the boose all day, he's all for wafting to tht rfflaft, if it's only for a soda, Likes to see people, eaten the latest gossip. Bat Thad says, no, his feet hart I Be gan to cause unpleasantness in Thad's home. Them Bill Webster ssssss ap with mm Ides. If Thad takes the sUssas to Copyright. Flood Crest Stage Expected Status Rising p. m.) 20 28 28.5 22 17 19 18.0 21 12.4 18 13.5 14 19.6 12 Rising Stationary Rising Rising Falling Falling Falling Falling in floods of other years: Dec. 18, 2, 1943 30.6; Jan. 8, 192331.0; more than half a mile of this stretch of highway is now flooded. The new section of the highway, approximately three feet higher than the old grade, is not be lieved in danger. Many Jefferson homes have been evacuated, many houses be ing completely surrounded by water. At the Claussie Amnion place, south of the railroad, water was up over the floor of the porch, members of the house hold splashing through the water to get into the house. Santiam STAYTON North Santiam highway Is closed by a slide be tween Gates and Niagara and Sardine creek bridge is out. The mail bus was unable to take the mail beyond Gates and brought it back here. Sardine creek bridge is expected to be ready for use Thursday morning. , Detroit DETROIT Three families were marooned in Linn county op Suit Attempts to Flax from Interstate Trade A suit seeking to prevent Oregon prison-made flax tow from be ing placed in interstate commerce county circuit court Wednesday by the Silverton Flax Co. Charles H. Leonard and T. T. Leonard,' owners of the Silverton plant, charge the Oregon state prison, the state board of control and the Oregon Flax Industries with usurping the entire flax market' by their activities. It is alleged that the defend ants are engaged in the general business of manufacturing and processing flax fiber and tow and in selling the same in the open market, "all with use of state money and convict labor.1 The Leonards state in the com plaint that the state group is out bidding them in the purchase of flax straw and is selling the pro cessed flax in interstate commerce at prices lower than the fair market price" of private enter prise. It is also charged that the de fendants are violating a section of the federal code which pre vents prison-made products from being placed into interstate com merce. The plaintiffs maintain that they have invested more than $80,000 in their business and hire over 30 employes and ask for a court order restraining the de fendants from continuing to com pete with the plaintiffs in the flax line. Listed as defendants are Les lie M. Scott, Earl T. Newbry and Gov. John Hall, as members of the state board of control; L. L. Laws, manager of the Oregon Flax Industries; George Alexan der, state prison warden; South ern Pacific Co.; Oregon Flax Tex tiles; Union Pacific Railway com pany, and Miles Linen Co. and Salem Linen Mills, both of Salem. The two Salem firms are in volved because, it is charged, they are buying fiber tow made at the prison and transporting it out of the state in manufactured products. Buses Rerouted Due to High Water The Pacific Greyhound bus com pany in Salem reported Wednes day that high water in the Albany area has caused Salem-Eugene buses to be routed through Rickre all to Corvallis to Eugene instead of the regular route by. way of Al bany to Corvallis to Eugene. All California bound passengers leav ing Salem must now go to Port land and travel through The Dalles to Bend and Klamath Falls to Cal ifornia. I fit ... Joe Marsh Thad's Foot Hurt Assy's Gardes Tarera, Thad aa relax with his glass of heer, sad the Misses eaa also chat with all the neigfabers there. Each geta his (or her) ova way. Worked, too! la fast, now the missus likes an occasional temper ate glass of beer herself. And Thad finds it's pleasanter to enjoy his beer with good companions, rather than alone. In fast, his feet stopped hurting tool 1948, Isiies Statu Brmrtn FemnMom posite here when the swinging bridge over the Santiam river on the edge of town went out in the high water Tuesday night. Rainfall here since January X has totaled 12.19 inches, Mrs. Earl Barker, Official weather observer said today. During the 24 hours ending at 7 p. m. Tuesday night, rainfall ; totaled 4.03 inches. To this is added the run Off from snow in the nearby hills which the rain is melting. Detroit high school backetball team with Otis White, principal coach, was marooned at Kucken berg Construction camp at Nia gara Tuesday night after a game at Turner. The school bus with 25 persons aboard was rerouted home over the South Santiam highway Wednesday afternoon. Detroit grade school has been closed because of water in the basement but the high school car ried on. The town's fire engine was brought up into town Tuesday night because firemen were wor ried about its safety; this morn ing the place where it had been was under water. ' The families marooned in Linn county are Mr. and Mrs. Scott C. Ebright, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hen derson and Mrs. Bill Cole. Hen dersons, live in the Lowell White summer cottage, and Mrs. Cole is believed to be alone while her husband is working elsewhere. ' Talbot TALBOT Talbot school was closed Wednesday as the Santiam river rose higher in the mint farm lands. The water was in the fire box of the school furnace even be fore the army engineers ordered the pupils and teachers out, Ag nes Booth, county school super intendent said. Turner; and Aumsville schools were closed because of high wa ter in Mill Creek which crosses the road many times, Mrs. Booth who lives in Turner said, from her office in , Salem. Bar State Pen for public use was filed in Marion Morse Would Support Taft CORVALLIS, Ore, Jan. 7 -UPV- Senator Wayne Morse (R-Ore.), whose opinions often diverge sharply from most of his repub lican colleagues, said today he would support the GOP presiden tial nominee even if it were Sen ator Robert Taft (R-Ohio). "Taft ' is not the great menace to his party or the country some would have you believe," Morse told an Oregon State college con vocation. Christmas Ship Deadline Near Gov. John H. Hall Wednesday issued a statement urging addi tional contributions for the north west Christmas food ship for Eu rope. Deadline is Saturday. Oregon is doing a fine job. Governor Hall said, "but there is space available in the ship for more food. It is the duty of every Oregon citizen, to do his part I urge everyone to aid in this hu manitarian project." Governor Hall said money or canned food should be sent to the Christmas ship committees in the various communities or direct to 615 SE Alder st Portland. 1 Opens :45 p. NOWI Adults 35c Johnny Sheffield "Lamb." La Rus "Ghost Town Renoqades" Cartoon Nswsl Chapter one of new thrill Serial! " Jungle Raids" Opens 6:45 p. m. "Tho Trbublo With Women" rrn.iairiT't:mn inmsa Also "Gunman's CodsT With fussy Knight Jsne Adams Danny Marts Johnny Weisemaller , f '- "Tarxcm I -.. - .-y and the P Amaxons" I Brands Joyce H mil ii I. 1 Optimist Club May Organize Formation of a Salem club of Optimist International, a . men's organization specializing in boys' work, will be discussed by a group of local youth leaders at a lunch eon in the Marion hotel Friday noon. " Glenn W. Loomis, Optimist ex tension counselor, is in Salem to help organize a local club similar to recently organized groups in Portland,-Eugene, Vancouver and Longyiew. At the organization meeting Assistant Attorney Gen eral Sam Hall will speak. Loomis said the meeting is open to all interested. Jefferson Phpnes To Be Switched To New Dial Unit JEFFERSON, Jan. . 7 The new home of the Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph company will be occupied here tomorrow when local lines will be switched to the new dial unit just. installed in a new modem structure, Harry V. Collins, district manager, an nounced. Jefferson, which has long had the dial phones, outgrew the old unit, Collins said, and a new unit has been installed in a new build ing Just constructed. Two hund red and fifty subscribers are serv ed from the Jefferson office. Morgenthau On Trader List WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 - (P) -Henry Morgenthau, jr., former secretary of the treasury, turned up on a government list of grain speculators today but he said he lost money and "it is obvious I had no inside information." As a private citizen, the former official sold corn futures last year, long after he resigned from the cabinet in 1945. His name was given by the agriculture department as a spec ulator in corn in the Chicago board of trade on June 30, 1947. NOWI AT BOTH Mat. Daily from 1 i.n. Opens C:45 pja Empire's Boldest AeYentorers ci tht March! mm Jean Peters Cesar Romero John Suttoa -Let I.Cobb I Oksetadby Prodaced by 1 HENRY KING -UMARTROm NOW SHOWING I NJfcillZLilH 9 ' I BOOK? I 17 Perish in j Georgia Marsh Plane Crash l! SAVANNAH, Ga? Jan. 7P)-A chartered twin-engined passenger plane- crashed into a Savannah river marsh and burned today, killing 17 of the 26 persons aboard. The nine others were injured. f A. B B A.t- oixieen persons a l e a in - we flaming wreckage. The other,; a girl, apparently about 10 years old died aboard a U. S. engineer, boat en route to Savannah. j The dead included Alvino An ton ioili, the pilot. Raymond Eick of Trenton, N. J., the co-pilot and only other crew member, was among the survivors. The passen gers, with the exception off a young soldier and a travel agent, were Puerto Ricans en route j to their homeland from New York. Eick said the. plane, a convert ed army C-47, operated by coastal airlines, a charter service, had trouble in the fuel feeding system while flying at about 3,000 feet. He said the pilot, preparing for a crash landing, ordered him to have the passengers fasten their seat belts. ' Before he could alert all the pas sengers, the plane began to lose for the control compartment. Be fore he could reach the controls, one wing of the big ship struck the marshland. An explosion fol- -lowed. The co-pilot was . blown clear of the wreckage. Rescuers found him clothed only in a neck tie and shoes. ; 1 1 s NEW Today ! For S Big Days That handsome dug star of "Anchors Awtifh" re ma aces with the girt with the Body BeaaUfal! . .- . . It's a tap-happy leve-and-laagh shew! KELLY MfcMi-rt ' i cm. 53W8? ""v And!! I SHOPPY'S" p AFTER UtfittiAUi; REDSKINS Added Treats! Kittor Cartoon -Warner News y Y; ik Gene ii BACHELOR'S DLISS W BODDY-SOXEIVS KISS! merest Shirley mm4 flfsMsrsss wary Cryl end i at unit ItlJ , Added . , . Disney Cartoon j "Mickey's Delayed Dsse" and Tex Beneke Band i
