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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1948)
t Tho Strrtesmrrn Salem, Osogon, Thursday. January IS. 1948 Valley Hop Growers Organize To Sell Remainder of '47 Crop By Lillie L. Madsen Ftna Editor. Tha IUtMBM Willamette valley hop fro wen who are still holding l47-crop unsold hops hare taken first step toward an organization whose stated purpose will be to sell such hops "for the best and highest price obtainable.' Hope of the growers promoting the move are eventually to get hops out of a "gamble" basis onto normal in dustrial basis. Tentative plana have been laid to bold a meeting on January 13, X p. m. at the Salem Chamber of Commerce rooms at which an agreement will be considered. The meeting will be open to all grow ers still in possession of unsold 1047 hops. Estimates Indicate ap proximately 10,000 such bales in the vaUey. When an agreement Is reached and organuation effected, three trustees, not more than one from any one district, will be selected from the membership to handle, manage and sell the hops. Tntst Aireeaaeat The trust agreement to be dis cussed at the Salem meeting will include, on the growers' side. bill of sale or growers' warehouse receipt furnished to the trustees and covering and describing their entire unsold 147 hop crop. . The trustees. In turn, are to agree tc use their efforts to pro cure "the best price obtainable for the bopa-from the most reli able brewers or hop buyers. The trustees are also to agree to have the hop inspected by reliable parties and by accepted methods of the hop trade. For that purpose the trustees are to draw a tenth bale sample from each grower's 1947 crop to be used In determin ing grade, quality and value through physical and chemical analysis. The analyst's reports are ss be available to the growers so Lehman's 'Ocean Deep Sea Crab Direct From the Crab Boat to You! We Also Feature Those Famous YAQUINA BAY OYSTERS (The Tiny 2S05 Portland Rd. AFTER THE mm V tounuuf rra' M A' lOntll VHOCt AUTHORITY Or TNI COCA-COLA COMPANY av COCA COLA BOTTLING COMPANY OF 02TGON. SALEM. OREGON that he may know -exactly what quality hops he has. i Cemssitiee Listed At earlier meetings, a commit tee was named to interview grow ers throughout the valley. Work ing on the committee are FYank Needham, Salem, chairman; Dole Pomeroy, Ronn Hardmaa and Russell Hill of Independence; John Cornwall of Weodburn; Os car and Peter Boiland and Leon ard Johnson of Canby; Al Nusora of Salem; Henry Johnson of Mt Angel; Harvey Gering. Fred Sta deli and Melvin Kaser of Silver ton, and Kllian Smith of Donald. The committee haa worked out the proposed agreement to be pre sented January 23 and reports en thusiastic reception from growers interviewed. Hopes are that a per manent hop marketing coopera tive may grow out ;of the 1947 selling plan. Frat Alumni Elect Wilson Otto J. Wilson, Jr, was elected president of the Salem chapter of the Sigma Chi Alumni associa tion at a meeting of the fraternity at the Cold Arrow cafe Wednes day night. Other new officers; elected were Frank Waller, vice president, and Homer Goulet. Jr secrets ry .treasurer. Officers retiring from the year-old organization were Win Jenks. president; Otto J. Wilson. Jr., vice president, and Dorcey Moore, secretary-treasurer. Members also discussed coming initiation of the Beta Iota chap ter of Sigma Chi at the Univer sity of Oregon which will take place on the weekend of Janu ary 17-1S. Several Salem mem bers will attend the event. Crab Pot Fresh Ones) Grazing Limit Plans Continue WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -(-Secretary of Agriculture Ander son .declined today to suspend a program calling for a slight re duction in cattle and sheep graz ing on publicly owned national forest land in the west. He had' been requested to do so by a house public lands sub committee headed by Rep. Bar rett (R-Wyo.). The department's forest ser vice plana a grazing program for the 1948-30 period which, Ander son said, would make an over-all reduction of two percent a year in the number of sheep and cattle grazed. Anderson said this reduction la necessary - to "correct over-grazing of the forest land. States In which grazing land would be affected are Colorado, Wyoming. Nebraska, Arizona. New Mexico, California. Oregon, Washington and Montana. Loeal Postal Employes Eye Salary Bill Approximately 150 Salem office employes are watching from Washington, D. C, today where the much-debated postal salary increase legislation goes to a senate sub-committee. Salem local C04, national feder ation of post office clerks, haa seat telegrams and letters to Oregon Senators ; Wayne Morse and Guy Cordon, urging favorable consid eration of the Senate bilL Local postal union officials said here Wednesday night that the bUl calls for an $800 per year increase for annual -salaried clerks and a 40 cents per hour boost for hourly workers.' Most of Salem's postal employee are on annual salaries, it was reported. Average weekly salary here for postal clerks now Is approximate ly $54 per week, local officials said. They pointed out that the be ginning rate of S 2,100 per year la in the lower income brackets. James-Lucas is president of the Salem postal clerks local and Frank Albrich. secretary. Retire ment legislation, affecting postal clerks, is also slated to come be fore congress later this month, they said. Fire Hazard Replace Floods in Oregon PORTLAND. Jan. 14-(ifrVOra-gon's flooded Willamette valley and rala drenched hills were no sooner dried off than a new wea ther hazard popped up. The Mount Hood national forest district ranger issued a fire warn ing explaining that clear skies the past few days and east winds in the gorge have dried out the fern areas of the forest. C. of C. Backs Road, Bridge Modernization Salem Chamber of Commerce directors Wednesday night voted active support during 194S for highway and bridge modernization projects which are earmarked or proposed for this area. This board action at the monthly session in chamber offices placed among official "aims and objects' of the saiem cnamoer supporx for a new Salem-West Salem bridge, an Independence bridge, extension of the new Detroit-Mill City highway to Mehama, a new Silverton highway and similar projects. Other aims approved include continuation of general chamber policies and emphasis on support for the farm labor housing camp, long-range planning commission, Cherryland festival, airport devel opment, tourist promotion, devel opment of a new county court house which might later incorpor ate city offices and arrangements for official affiliation of the Ore gon Mounted posse with the cham ber. Directors also approved for the year a $33,000 budget, which is $1,000 over last year's budget and about $3,000 over last year's ac tual expenditures. Included in the new budget are office staff salary raises aggregating $3,050. Northwestern Oregon ARC Officials Meet General problems confronting county Red Cross units ware dis cussed at a meeting of American Red Cross executives from nine Oregon counties at Salem Cham ber of Commerce rooms Wednes day afternoon. Richard Gordon of San Fran cisco, area disaster preparedness and relief director, praised the work of the local Marion county disaster committee and other groups in the recent Willamette valley floods. He pointed out that the pre paredness program of the commit tee cut down flood loss measur ably. Other speakers included N. C. Novak of Portland, claims direc tor of the veterans administration office there, who spoke on the Red Cross cooperation with the VA on veterans claims and other activities. Ray Early of Portland, fund campaign chairman of the Mult nomah county chapter of the Red Cross, led a round - table dis cussion on fund raising methods. The Marion county chapter, rep resented by Susan Faherty, ex ecutive manager, was the host chapter at a noon luncheon at the Marion hoteL Present at the ses sions were executive secretaries and other representatives from Lane. Benton, Linn, Polk, Yam hill, Washington. Clackamas and Multnomah counties. Cordon also led an informal discussion meeting of the Marion county disaster and relief com mittee in the Red Cross office at which 33 communities over the county were represented. Water Control District Vote Wins Favor CENTRAL HOWELL Ap proximately 75 landowners of this area met in the schoolhouse here Wednesday night to discuss the proposed Pudding river water control district, and many ex pressed their endorsement of pe titioning for an election to deter mine whether rich a district should be formed in order to seek federal aid for flood control and related projects. Salem Attorney Peery Buren explained the 1847 state law au thorizing such water control dis tricts. Similar meetings on the proposed district will be held this Thursday night at Bethany school and next Tuesday night at Aurora grange halL DISTRESSED PLANE LANDS NEW YORK, Jan. 14.-0P)-A four-engined DC-4 plane, which sent out a distress message early today while flying near Jackson ville, Fla, landed safely at Nas sau in the Bahamas at 1:43 a. m., the coast guard office hers re ported. $100 a Month forx Lifo TleGsXsW Yrt PUmghmym 1. Definite moachiy iocome Co life when yon wish to retire 3. Protection for family now . Pays double for accidental Heath before retirement age 4. Builds up Urge cash reserve 5. Pays steady income if yo are permanently disabled Standard Insurance CHAS. S. McCUilNKT O. C. "JCUtY" MOWN Reservists Hear Maj. Carl j Members of Salem's Marine re serve corps unit received a rare treat at Wednesday night's drill session when. Maj. Marion E. Carl, Hubbard native and marine corps flying ace spent more than an hour answering questions from members regarding jet planes and the marine air corps. During the question period Maj. Carl told the reservists that jet planes now have a definite place in modern ground and naval war fare. Helicopters have also been perfected to a stage where they now can play an important part in spotting enemy positions for ar tillery, he said. Thirteen new members were added to the rapidly growing how itzer division at the session. Sign ing were Kenneth E. Stewart, Donald L. Graves, Robert M. Ba ker, Wayne P. Champion and Charles J. Patterson, all of Sa lem; Stanley E. Brown. Gilbert E. Hermann and William F. Carle- ton, all of Stayton; Robert F. Bab cock. Independence; Jow J. Pink- ham, Chemawst; William T. Bald win, Hubbard, and Bethel M. Lee roy, Aumsville. 'Marshall Plan, Or Elsef Says Philip Parrish Ifs the Marshall plan "or else," Philip Parrish, Portland news paper man just home from Europe, told members of the Salem Rotary club and their guests at the an nual "farmers day" luncheon meeting Wednesday in the Marion hoteL The Marshall plan or its eauivilant is necessary so that European people may have suf ficient calories to be able to work and provide the goods which sre needed for replacement of those destroyed In the war, Parrish de clared. People are not working hard in Germany because they can not get food enough. Parrish said. Crops were good in Russia, rain seem ing to have stopped at the iron curtain, but conditions otherwise in the Russian zone are not good. the speaker said in. answer to a Question. Among the guests Wednesday were Justice James T. Brand, recently home from the United States war crimes triale at Nuern berg. In opening his talk Parrish said he felt "very humble in the presence of those who have spent so much more time in Germany than I have." He said that while he had been unable to aee Justice Brand while in Germany he heard the Oregon jurist referred to as the "best brains on the court at Nuernberg" by U. S. Rep. Phil. LaFollette of Wisconsin who visited Europe during the congressional recess. Congressional Aide Admits Grain Trading WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -JP) A congressional employe who acknowledged a number of trans actions in the grain market told a senate committee inquiring into speculation today that he never had access to "inside informa tion." John Kerr Rose, a geographer for the library of congress, told a senate appropriations subcom mittee that he made more than a dozen oats and wheat trans actions during 1947 and that he suffered a net loss of $1,744.75. Rose, whose name appeared on a list of traders made public about week ago by the depart ment of agriculture, told report ers he bought and sold 1,000 bush els of wheat futures last Septem ber 20 while working on a re port for the Herter committee on foreign aid. He said he made a small profit, but added that he saw "nothing unethical" in the transaction. William Yandle Elliott, chief director of the house foreign af fairs committee, said the disclo sure that Rose was in the com modity market at the same time he was working on the Herter report "came as quite a surprise to me." He said that Rose helped to prepare statistics and some of the text of the portions of the Herter committee report dealing with grain and fertilizers. Most of the figures he worked with, Elliott continued, were not confidential but some of the ma terial was so classified by the in ternational emergency food coun cil. MADE LINDY HOP CHICAGO, Jan. 14. -Jf) CoL Charles A. Lindbergh was treated at Billings Memorial hospital to day for a toe injury suffered when he dorpped a large flashlight on his right foot. Is It Fun to Livo in Salem? TOWN MEETING 8:33 Tonight Waller Hall KOCO BROADCAST Marine Flying Ace Spends Day in Salem (Interview on page 1) Maj. Marion E. Carl, native of Hubbard, World War II flying ace and holder of the world's fighter plane speed record, was in Salem Wednesday for his first real visit in five years. Carl, now commander of a night fighter squadron, composed mostly of jet planes, at Cherry Point, N.C, arrived in Salem Wednesday after noon by auto for a one-night speaking tour. He flew from Cher ry Point to The Dalles Sunday and on to Portland Tuesday where he spoke at two high schools. In his short visit here Maj. Carl addressed officers of Salem's marine corps reserve unit and members of the civilian Marine re serve recruiting committee at a luncheon at the Marion hotel. Attending the dinner were Mai. Leonard Hick, commandant of Sa lem s marine reserve unit; Sgt. Maj. Lloyd W. Barker, local mar ine reserve recruiting head; CoL Roland Davis, Portland, battalion commander of Portlands reserve unit; Maj. H. E. W. Barnes, Oregon marine corps reserve instructor- inspector and Capt. Harold Mont gomery, Portland. Oregon marine corps reserve public relations chief. Visited Armery Following the dinner, Carl vis ited the marine corps armory at the Salem airport where he spent an hour answering questions put' by members of Salem s marine re serve corps during a drill session. Last August Cart set the world's speed record for jet plsnes by pi loting a Dduglas Skystreak 50.76 miles an hour over a mile course at Murdoc Dry Lake, Calif. The record still stands. He recently completed two years duty at the naval test center at Patuxent Riv er, Md.. where he flew all the lat est type conventional, jet and heli copter aircraft. A year ago last November Carl made one of the first carrier landings in a jet plane, landing a P-S0 Shooting Star on a carrier off the east coast Been at Ilabbaxd Carl was born at Hubbard Nov, 1. 1915, the son of the 1st Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Carl. He received his preliminary education in Hub bard and was graduated from Ore gon State college in 1931 with a degree In mechanical engineering with an aeronautical option. Fol lowing graduation he was ap pointed a second lieutenant In the army. In August, 1938, Maj. Carl resigned his commission In the army and was appointed an avia tion cadet in the Marine air corps, He completed his flight training at Pens cola, Fla, Dec. 1, 1939, re ceiving the rank of second lieuten ant in the corps. Oat VSM Ssratoca During the first part of World War IL Cart served aboard the old carrier, USS Saratoga and partici pated in the Battle of Midway and Guadalcanal. He downed II Vs Japanese planes during his com bat flying in the South Pacific. Off Guadalcanal he was shot down, saved by natives who picked him up in s canoe and walked five miles back to his base through jungles. After his first tour of duty. Carl returned to the United States and went on a 14-month bond sale, but In July, 1943, returned to overseas duty. His second trip took him through the Hawaiian islands, New Hebrides, Veils LaVella in the Solomons, and Emirau. In his first flight over Rabaul he shot down a Jap plane. Men to Attend Guard School Three members of Salem's com pany B, lS2nd Infantry regiment, will go to Portland Friday where they will attend a three-day school of the Oregon national guard on supply, maintenance. training and personnel adminis tration. Salem men going are Capt. Burl Cox. regiment commander, SSgt. Lawrence Baker and 1st Sgt. Wilton St. Claire. A total of 207 officers and enlisted men will attend the sessions. Too Late to CUssifv LOST Black cotat punt with large sum of moon. Dwptrafty SB mm. Ha ward. 1133 N Liberty. Ph. SSSU. YOUNG WOMAN wanted for cnral office work. No prtvtoui xprtnc nocoaaary. Mrs. Wrtsnt. Ui rarry, 1 to T p.m. uvaf for&st , . . M fog let fvmn SAT IT FOR TOUi tsstfw setPaWsl sssws1 1PI A I II MH l27tB.UboSl Private Industry To Enter Richland SEATTLE, Jan. 14 -JP)- The atomic citV of Richland is go ing to be opened for the first time to building of establishments by private business operators. David H. Lauder, works mana ger for the General Electric com pany at the Han ford project, an nounced the new policy In a speech here today. Under the new policy, 'business operators will be able to obtain leases from the federal govern ment if approved by the manage ment of the community. CoL Abrams To Head Local Defense Group Col. Carle Abrams, Spanish American war veteran long asso ciated with Salem patriotic, civic and veterans activities, will head a Salem area citizens' advisory committee on national defense. Appointment was made Wed nesday by Gen. Mark Clark, Sixth army commander, and announced in Salem by Col. John M. Hamil ton of Portland, Oregon's senior national guard instructor who had just returned from confer ence with General Clark and his staff in San Francisco. Hamilton said Abrams will form a committee which will keep Sixth army headquarters advised on Sa lem area developments pertain ing to defense. The committee will include religious, education, serv ice and civic organizations, health and labor representatives. Simi lar committees are being formed in other western cities. riiisEraiii NOW PLAYING I Romanes and Musi That Mad Historylj HEPBURN IIEHREID WALKER HflDWIE Added First Newsreel In Celerl Tftese Bewl r trade A Feetban Gaasel Also CtitoM Meeieal Last Day! The Cheat ad Mrs. Malr" "Cigarette Oirf TOMOHIOWI Mighty Ad rente ret And! The Sears aad Girls That Set An Era Aflaeae! JUKE HAVER MARX STEVENS V I I LIO O. V- CARROLL e" V A terreat of Excite sa s t Sweeps frees , . 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