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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1948)
1 The Stat mmm. SaUm, Of.. Wednes day. February 13. 1U2 Farmers Union Juniors Tfjld Importance of Cooperation By National President Patton (Story also on pae 1) Cooperation a4 learning to live together are the biggest things In the world. James D. Patton. national president of the fanners Un ion told 150 juniors and their leaders at the annual junior banquet held Tuesday mgHt at the chamber of commerce rooms.; "Alter all material needs are taken care of in this world, and I feel there can and vritl be plenty for all to eat and wear, we will -- to the state convention at its open ing session Tuesday morning. Henry Torvend. president of the host Marion county unit, wel comed the visitors for his group to which A. R. Ringe of Beaver ton responded.. Invocation was read by the Rev. Vernon Zorn of Clear Lake. j Juniors who spoHe during the daytime session k'ere Lucille Haase. Laurel So ho Us local; Nor th ey felt The public wuhed to see j man Geotze. Alice and Elaine Fur in print. Dr. Rademaker. too. I ley. Blooming local. j all of Wash- urged hie listener to learn the ington oounty. coopei&tlve manner of life till have the problem of hof to prevent individuals from seeking power and more then their share," he said. Sharing speaktt honors with Mr. Patton was Dr. John Jade maker, professor of sociology at Willamette uiuvetsity. who at tacked the matrooolttjn dailies as he praised Ube fraternal papers, stating tne dailies carried only that, news which proved profitable to then editors and that which West Salem Apartments Rise I : -A ... t-" New spsrtaaent aeaae malts seen te be eeoapleted are the tw thews abeve being eenrtreetes' by J. O. EastrMce, 195S Edgewater st, ta West Salem. The twe-stery eeliarnxs will have eight apartmtits: six three-r a aaits. tsi tare feer-raom nits, first apartments af the ty ecejeet are te be eeaapleted semetime ta April by K. L Daage, West Sales ceetraclar. ana' are locate at 1M1 Edgewaier street. (Fheie by Daa Dill. SUtesamaa sUff phetecrapher.) Officers of the juruor union elected following the evening pro gram Included Dick Moeller. Cor nelius, president; Gerald Brog. Salem, ice - preMieat; Jojr(e Cnos, Cornelius, secretary; and executn e board members. Rus sel Hicks, Salem, out-going presi dent, LaVeile Winter. McMinn ville: social chairman. Robert BuetJer, Salem, and Freeman Row, HiHsboro. Speech Tenigat Patton will hht-ght the sec ond day of the Oregon convention which c-i.ned here Tueviay. Pat ton will fpeak at the high school auditorium at an open meeting. 9 o'clock tonight following the convention banquet at 6:30, also at the rugh school. Today's meeting will open at :30. Army engineers will talk on Willamette valley drainage prob lems and Arnold Bjdtier on soil conservation at the morning ses sion. Duiing the afternoon Presi dent Patton will conduct his question-answer perio.1. and commit tee reports will be heard. Elfsu-sas Weleaate Mayor Robert Elftrom wel comed the more than 400 members Reports were made by Mrs ; James Smart of Pdlk county on the health organisation; Amon Grice of the Blue Lake Producers; Ed Bell, administrator of the Ore gon wheat commission, and Ar- ' thur Bone, editor of the Oregon ! Farmers Union paper. Committee Heads Committee heads named by President Ronald Jones, who is presiding, were Eldon Emerson. The Dalles, constitution and by laws; Gus Schlickeit Salem, pro gram for 1948; Majrie Cornwall, Woodburn. credentials; Mrs. Mi ble Shearer. Hillsbofo. resolutions: A. R. Ringe. Hillsboro, good of the order. j Arranging entertainment are T. R. Hobart. Mrs. W. ft. Lowery and Mrs. T. C. Mason. George Angel of The Oregon Farmer led in group singing. Vocfrl solos were given by James Ragland, Brooks, accompanied by Jeff McDougall, and vibraharp solds by Ronald Sheets. Salem Walter Pierce, former governor of Oregon, and Mrs! Pierce, were introduced as the (oldest active members of the Oregon Farmers Union Semi-Formal Green and Cold Ball FrL. Fab. 27 - 9:00 Top Hallers Orchestra V. F. W. Hall Public Walcoma Sponsored by LD-S- Church Admission SIM par parson 70-Year-pid Parsonage in Lebanon Burns Salem's Tea gaaw Talae! LAST DAT! "MOSS KOSfT "Fan aa a Weekend" r I TOMORBOWl I LEBANON. Feb. 24. -Lebanon's 70-year-old Met hock st parsonage burned this morning as flue fire , spread through roof and second floor walls, firemen responding to 10:15 a. m. alarm said. Volunteers quickly confined the ' blaze and moved household fur : nishmgs to safety.) The pastor, the Rev. Harry Rarejr, said he was ; in the church stuy next door ; when the fire started. Mrs. Rarey 1 was away teaching jschool. Damage was limited to upstairs ' but water soaked the ground floor , walls and floors. Personal house J hold goods were reported to have ! been insured. j j Dr. Joel C. Booth, long time resident, said the iarsonage was ; at least 20 years old when he first j came here 52 years ago when the ! Rev. M. Haromon was pastor. William Thomas, local attorney and secretary ox the Methodist of ficial board, immediately called meeting to review Jparsonage building plans. I Campanloa ArtUa Hit! HUHa'AlYiri tl j Oaeaa :4 pjn. 2ND FEATURE "Wav Out West" with Staa Laurel - Oliver Hardy Planes from Oregon Cross Mexican Line NOG ALES. Ariz, Feb. 24 -JP) Twenty-six of the 32 Oregon to Mexico private aircraft have ar rived at their destination. Her' mosillo. Sonera. Mex.. Jack Evans, manager of the Interna tional airport here, reported to night. Four other planes landed in Nogaies too late to continue the trip, while another pair were late checking into Yuma. Am, ana will spend the night there. Eleven of the planes from Port land made an unscheduled stop here last night, due to bi weather, but were off early for Hermosillo. The other planes took off from Yuma this morn ing, landed here briefly and then resumed their journey. The four pilots here tonight Paul Clement. J. W. Mc- Cracken. Earl McCracken and W T. Peters. Reported in Yuma are Angus Gibson. Arthur Lrickson and the passengers in their two ships. More than 80 Oregonians are making the trip with a gala re ception awaiting in riermosiiio, the capital of the state of Son or. Gov. Abelardo L. Rodriguez, a former nresident of Mexico, will extend the official greeting to the flying guests. Group Airs Sports Needs For Memorial Recreation and I ports needs of the community as related to the construction of the Salem War Memorial Building were discussed by a group of those interested in these activities in particular, at the Tuesday committee meeting in the office of W. H. Baillie, chair man. Among those speaking were Leslie Sparks. Al Schuss, David Huts, Vernon Gilmore, Fred Zim merman and Oliver Huston. It was urged that whatever type build ing was selected it should be with the idea of making it pay its own way without necessity of looking to municipal tax or other sources of support. Needs of youth groups, such as the Boy Scouts. Camp Fire Girls, 4-H clubs. YMCA and similar or ganizations will be taken up at the meeting next Tuesday. Lust for Candv a Leads 'Youthful Thief to Capture PORTLAND. Feb. 24. - UP) - A boy's appetite for candy led today to solution of three burglaries in this county. Police said it happened this way: A 14-year-old was arrested by a woman store detective, Grace Cole, who saw him pilfer four candy bars. Halted, he pulled a gun. She wrested it from him. Police discovered he was carry ing several rings, and elicited a confession of three recent burglaries. SEATTLE OPPONENTS SET SEATTLE. Feb. 24-;P-Mayor William F. Devin and Allan Pom- eroy, former U. S. district attor ney, will oppose each other in fl attie's final mayoralty election Maich 9, final returns in the city's primary tonight showed. 'Demo Split' in Northwest Said Due to Taylor PORTLAND. Ore, Feb. 24-tJP Oregon democrats supporting Hen ry A. Wallace for president said today the entry of Senator Taylor of Idaho on a third party ticket means new parties in all Pacific northwest states. Nels Peterson, Oregon chairman of the Progressive citizens com mittee, said petitions for a third party in Oregon would get started at the PCA's first state convention March 8-7. He said Taylor has been invited to address the convention. "His candidacy is the catalyst to clari fy the issues and coalesce forces in the interest of a new larty in the northwest," Peterson aid. The announcement brought a division of opinion in comments by Oregon democratic party leaders. National Committeeman Lew Wallace said Wallace and Taylor are "getting too big for their pants." Clifford T. Howlett. state demo cratic secretary, said ha was not "overlooking the strength of a third party movement." He added, "I find the man on the street dis satisfied with both the old parties ." Howard Morgan, president of the Multnomah county (Portland) Young Democrats said, "I think the democratic chances are shot." Prices Slump Again as Hogs Flow to Market CHICAGO. Feb. 24 -OP)- A heavy flow of hogj to midwest markets caused prices to slump again today. Securities and most other commodities registered lit jth important , change. - Dteei momentarily oversnaaow ed commodities in the cost of liv ina? picture. Ho( prices broke from 23 cents to $1 a hundred pounds at 12 large midwest trading centers on receipts of ' C8.000 animals. This was la, 000 above a week ago. At the Chicago stockyards hog prices slipped 50 to 75 cents, nog prices alio dropped as much as $1.5r yesterday. Today's practical top of $22.75 a hundred pounds was only 50 cents above the 1948 low. Cattle were steady to 50 cents lower and lambs were steady to 25 cents lower at Chicago. Wholesale meat prices, however, moved generally higher at Chi cago and New York. New York had advances of up to $3 a hun dred pouad-s on beef and $1 on pork. In Chicago beef sold aa much as $1 higher and pork was steady to $2 higher. The Associated Press weighted wholesale price index of $5 basic commodities declined a tiny frac tion of a point to 187.23. A week ago the index was at approxi mately the same level, 187.20, and a month ago 203.48. The index, which takes 1128 prices as 100, was 174.52 a year ago. New York City has four Arabic newspapers. T m V K A? U waajHsatt a a aV HE'S THE TOUGH GUY THEY CALHhe KILLER"! He lcrve$ only two people . . . himself and ja girl who it hard-to-get! A Mickey Rooney you've never seenl O STARTS TODAY! O 2JC0 IDC3DDv7Y7 o) ADDED M astral Nevelty "Jlagle. Jaaarle, Jaagte" Celer Cartaaa "Daffy Dawk 81es4 Uera" Ql JAMES DUNN Americans Elating 30 Per Cent More LOS ANGELES. Feb. 24 -(P) Are you well-fed Carlos Campbell of Washing ton, D. C, executive secretary of the National Canners association, says you are. He told the Southern California Food Processors association today that Americans are eating 30 per cent more food than they did be fore the war. Due to the relatively higher dol lar value, he said, housewives pur chase 150 per cent more canned vegetables, 138 per cent more canned fruits and 385 per cent more canned citrus juices than in pre-war days. It is believed that human in fants do not have good ability to distinguish colors until 12 to 15 months after birth. Red Premier Showed Pistol To King Mihai By Fraak OUriea ROME, Feb. 24 -)- Roman ian Premier Petru Groza showed a gun When he went to force the abdication of King Mihai. an in formant close to the former mon arch said today.. The source said he thought it probable that ex-Queen Helen, the former king's mother, got approval from Pope Pius yester day for the marriage of Mihai of the orthodox church and Princess Anne of Bourbon-Parma, a Rom an Catholic. He said Mihai is preparing to sail from England for the United States on March 5 and may de cide to have his wedding in the United States. If the wedding is in the United States Mihai 's mo ther will accompany him on the trip. The informant, who left Ro mania when Mihai abdicated, said Premier Groza carried a pistol in side his jacket when he presented the abdication for the king to sign. He gave this account: An asshociate of the king who tried to use the telephone discov ered the line was cut. Simultan eously it was found that the pal ace grounds were full of plain clothes agents of the communist led government Two black prison cars were parked across the street. Mihai stepped to the window and verified reports from his as sistants of the situation. It was then, the informant said, that Gro za ostentationsly swung back his jacket and let the king see the pis tol. A Helpful Hint from the United States i , V v. W 7T - -.. - -e .V S s . S 1 m j( fit CASSINO. IUly. Feb. 21 Glaseppa DUJlla. U-year-ld disabled araaaa af Casalna. lUlr. shews a gratfa af ehildrea at the Iastltate ef Saa Mlehele la 1mm, the artificial leg he received, aa a gift daring a trip te the Called States. He waa among a group af ehildrea who went ta America, aader sponsorship af the American Faster Parents Plan- for War Children. Member af the Sisters af Charity, who eeerate the Institute. Is at right (Ar Wlrephete te the Statesman.) 1 1 Grand Jury To Investigate Portland Vice PORTLAND, Feb. 24-ff)-The Multnomah county grand jury was ordered today to investigate the graft charges which the City club says involves some police officers and public officials. Circuit Judge Martin W. Haw kins told the jurors to conduct a study of the accusations, subpoena witnesses, and if they find that law violations have occurred "see that any persons violating the laws are brought before the court. He warned, however, that the grand jury could hear only evi dence that can be presented in trial court "You are not permitted to have hearsay evidefice," Haw kins said. Mayor Earl Riley, in denying the City club's charge that vice has been protected in Portland, de clared that much of the City club's report was based on "rumor and gossip." The grand jury is expected to begin calling witnesses tomorrow. The first may be the City club committee which prepared the vice report. District Attorney John B. McCourt and Deputy District At torney Char'ies E. Raymond will advise the grand jury in the investigation. 1 20-30 Club Fetes Wives N Members of Salem 20-30 club entertained their wives at a din ner at the Gold Arrow restaurant and dancing at Mayflower hall Tuesday evening. Program included imitations by Gene Ma leek i. Further plans were announced for Friday night's presentation ol "Dream Girl," first of three 20-30 sponsored plays to benefit the memorial auditorium project Eisenhower Switches To Civilian Cray WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 JF) Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower switched today from the army's olive drab to a smart civilian gray. The retired chief of staff, who soon will take over as president of Columbia university, posed for photographs in a new gray suit and overcoat, gray Homberg hat, maroon striped necktie and tan pigskin gloves. Girl Wade Jm iJ.a J&HanJlDAl I J ' f Direct irom Broadway NEW YORK CASTS I I Subscription AJBO & 1.00 for Series Now on ala at Miller Dept. Store. Performances on Feb. 27, April J 15 and May 15. At Salem j High School auditorium. Spon-1, sored by 20-30 Club of i - ' Salem. ! T 1 - Men Sought in Theft Attempt MYRTLE POINT, Feb. 24-;P- Two would-be plane thieves, who swiped an airplane, cracked it up on the take-off .and then ran to freedom, were sought by police today. Two men approached a two passenger Cessna parked on the Coos county fairgrounds. They cut a hole in the glass to unlock the door; wired around the ignition. Then they taxied around the fairgrounds in circles to warm up the engine, and attempted to take off. The plane nosed over at the end of the field. Four men working nearby ran to the scene, but the thieves dis- apepared into the darkness. DILLINGES' ARRESTED BEVERLY HILLS, CaliL, Feb. 24 UP)- Film Actor Lawrence Tier ney, 30. who once played the movie role of "Djllinger," was arrested today oa a warrant charging battery, and later posted $250 bond in Beverly Hills justice court. 8:00 Tonight 8:00 ICS MEEOT Salem Hornets 50c vx. 50c Eugene Bed Devils SiiLEIl ICE ilBEim (10 N. Capitol Phone SSSS HAVE YOU TRIED . . . 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