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.
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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.
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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
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High St. at Marie
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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.
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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.
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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
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