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Religious Education Decision
" Prompts Conjecture over State
The U.S. supreme court ruling Monday that religious inxtructiooo
b banned in pubite schools prompted conjecture among educator
of Salem and other Oregon communities ill which school practices
may be affected.
Oregon schools will comply with the decision but not until a
copy of the opinion has been received here for analysis. Rex Putnam,
state superintendent of pubuc in
duction, told the Rev. Gilbert
Christian, Oregen council of
churches, Tuesday.
Putnam said it might be neces
sary to refer the high court de
cision 4o the attorney general here
to determine -hew the Oregon
schools fit into the picture. He
said a substantial number of Ore
gon schools apparently have re
ligious instruction but in virtually
all cases such instruction is ham
died -outside of -regular school
hours and is promoted by reli
gious groups rather than by school
officials."
No Imsaediate Change
No change is expected in the
weekday religious instruction pro -
- a. i a .
gram in Salem school district un
til it is learned whether Oregon's
Situation is similar to that in Illi
nois where the case originated),
said Superintendent Frank B.
Bennett.
Wiihm ;Alm th nrocram is
financed through the Salem Min- , midnight sun" were shown by
istenal association, which pays the I Peggy Coplerud. Susan Faherty,
teachers. Attendance, for one hour j executive secretary of Marion
weekly in regular study hours, is : county chapter. American Red
not compulsory. Cross, discussed the current fund
In Silverton where 400 attend campaign and work of the ARC.
daily bible classes supervised by a i Location of the next meeting was
ministerial association. Superin- left up to the executive commif
tendent cf Schools A. B. Anderson I tee.
UH . laes will continue for the
present, but meanwhile the school
board will discuss the situation at
a meeting tonight.
Cathelie Communities
It was considered likely that
th mtirt mlin when f till y in
terpreted, might affect present op-
erating policies of schools in Mt.
Aneel and St. Paul, predominant-
ly Catholic communities of Mar
ion county.
St. Paul and Mt. Angel district
schools are now renting space m
buiioings owned by the respective
Catholic parishes. St. Paul district
45. is building a new school which
v ui be occupied next iau. cigm
grades are now taught in the rent
ed fjace in the parochial school,
while al! but the third and fourth
giaues are taught by Sitters of the
Holy Names in the same building.
Tiutbt hf Sisters
Mt. Angel district 91 teaches all
of the upper grades in rooms rent-
ed from St. Mary's parish. First
three graces are taught by Bene
d j'nie sisters from the Mt. Angel
acaiiemy. The building is direct
ly acrs'the street from St. Mary's
cburth arid is the community cen
ter with a large auditorium on the
first floor and large kitchen and
dining rrrntu in the basement.
From Portland, school officials
told Associated Presa they would
allow b.ble classes to continue un-
til the iity schools attorney stu-
dies the supreme court ruling. The
classes, held
neia lor iuuui iu.uou iu-
dents, usually are conducted away
from schools. Church officials said
they believed the supreme court
ruling would not affect such
classes.
School Planning
Meet at Monmouth
To Start Tuesday
All Marion county district
school board members and ad
visory building committeemen
are urged by Mrs. Agnes Booth,
Marten county sennet superinten
dent, to attend a school building
planning and improvement con- ;
ferente at Monmouth on March !
16 and 17. j
The conference will open at j
9 30 a m. Tuesday at Oregon Col-
lege of Education which is spon-
soring the meeting together with ;
the ttate education department.
Mis Booth said.
State and national school build
ing consultants will discuss class
room lighting and colors, proper
school construction, and will set
up a model classroom. School
board members and other educa
tion leaders from Marion and
neighboring counties will attend
the crnference, Mrs Booth de
clared.
Numerals Burned
In Sehool Lawn
The numerals "44." about 10
feet high, were burned in the
front lawn at Salem high school
Tuesday evening, presumably by
over-enthusiastic seniors or envi
ous underclassmen. The flames
leaped as high as six or seven
feet from oil-soaked kindling on
the ground, according to city po
lice who spotted the blaze Just
before 10 JO o'clock.
The fire was quickly put out
by city firemen.
Smoking Pan Calk Out
Local Fire Department
A lot of smoke, but not much
fire, called out Salem fire equip
ment about 6;30 pm. Tuesday to
1 39S N. Winter st. There a grease
filled pan on a hot stove had
filled the house with smoke but
the roast had already been re
moved. Starrtnc
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Thor Lodge
Holds Party,
Elects Officers
Election of officers and a fare
well party for a couple planning to
revisit the club's native land feat
ured Tuesday night's meeting of
Thor lodge. Sons of Norway. The
session honored Mr. and Mrs.
E. F, Arneson, 2135 S. Cottage st
who are leaving early in April for
i a three-months visit in Norway.
TV A users- riai4vtM
The Arnesons were presented
with movie films, on the condi
tion that they picture their trip
and show the results upon their
return here.
Films of her family home in
Norway and of "the land of the
Re-elected as club ollicers were
Theodore G. Nelson, president; Al
Moen. vice president; Theodore
Jesten. counselor; Paul Ratchford.
financial secretary; Ivy Swenvold,
treasurer; Ernest and Doris Conn,
marshal and assistant; Bernard
Benson and Severin Lange, inner
and outer guards; Theodore Jes-
wn, Derudru dc-iukju mm
C. Nelson, auditing committee
Newly elected officers were Hel
en Ratchford. assistant secretary;
Helen Lovald, social director;
Gena C. Benson, assistant; Dr.
B. L. Trelstad. physician; Orris
j Lunda. general director. Appoint
ments were Mabel Lindstrom and
Carmen Benson on the hospitality
committee and Velda Lunda as pianist-Admitted
as new members were
Mr and Mrs. W. H. Crawford.
G. F. Farmen and John Norby. a
transfer from Astoria
FerHes Run
In Washington
SEATTLE. March f -() The
Puget Sound Navigation company,
which suspended service nine
riavt im in Hirnt with th
gtat Qver raUa ne
j gotiatlonJ with other counties
rn
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King and Kitsap county ferries
went into operation today under
charter to the counties. Such
charters are not under state juris
diction. At the same time, company
representatives met today with
commissioners of Snohomish,
Skagit and San Juan counties in
Everett to work out similar con
tracts. 'Heat from Earth'
Dealer Appointed
Patton - Min to Plumbing and
Heating has been appointed Polk
county dealer for Marvair Heat
Pump units by the Marvair Heat
Pump Salem distributors of Port-
land, it was announced Tuesday.
The units, constructed "by the
Mucte Gear Works of Muncie,
Ind.. and offered for installation
after a ten-year period of ex
perimentation and development,
combine the use of hot air duct
systems and "heat from the earth,"
eliminating all combustion in the
house or building.
A unit In actual operation will
be on public display in the Pat-ton-Mlnto
show room, 1122 S.
12th St.
Riley 4 Welcomes
Grand Jury Probe
PORTLAND, March 9 - (JP) -
Mayor Earl Riley told the City
club today that he welcomed the
grand jury investigation ef the
club s charges that vice and graft
exist in Portland.
He admitted that in the past
there hare been "crooked po
licemen here, but praised the po
lice department as a whole.
Riley added that the club should
not have publicized its charges of
vice, but should hare taken them
directly to the grand jury.
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Solons Restore
Project Cuts
WASHINGTON, March 9(JPy
Army engineers asked today that
the senate restore all but one of
the cutbacks made by the house in
its record $513,875,000 waterways
bilk
The recommendation was made
as a senate appropriations sub
committee opened hearings on the
flood control and rivers and har
bors program for the year begin
ning next July 1.
The engineers' proposal would
add $131,000,000, or 25 per cent,
to the house total. The house fig
ure. If approved by the senate,
would be an all-time high.
Subcommittee Chairman Gur
ney (R-S.D.) told a reporter his
group would review with care the
army recommendations for each of
the 244 projects in the program,
checking them against house ac
tion. The following amounts, by proj
ects, are among those the engi
neers requested be. restored. In all
cases they bring the total to the
original figure proposed by the
budget bureau:
Flood control (all in one state):
Oregon: Detroit reservoir, $500,
000; Dorena reservoir, $500,000;
Lookout Point reservoir, $2,000,
000. Flood control project in more
than one state :
Oregon: Coos Bay, $1,000,000;
Columbia river at Bonneville,
$300,000.
Rivers and harbors project in
more than one state:
McNary lock and dam, Colum
bia river, Oregon and Washington,
$10,000,000; Columbia river be
tween Vancouver. Wash., and The
Dalles, Ore.. $200,000; Columbia
and lower Willamette riyers, be
low Vancouver. Wash., and Port
land, Ore., $154,000.
Wrecking of
C. H. Robertson
Home to Start
Wrecking of the former
Charles H. Robertson home at
277 N. Capitol st , on the site of
a proposed new state office build
ing, will begin today, it was dis
closed last night by Robert P.
Mobley who yesterday purchased
the building for $912 from the
state.
Mobley. a city fireman now liv
ing in the veterans housing col
ony, said he would use the ma
terials salvaged to build a home
for h.mself at 20th and Wilber
streets He was high among five
bidders whose bids were opened
by the state board of control on
Tuesday.
The state required that the
house be torn down or moved
within 30 days. The state paid
$22,000 for the property when it
purchased the site opposite the
state capitol grounds. Only house
in tnat block still to be acquired
is the Bush home adjacent to the
Kooertson place.
Hi-Y Chapters
Draft 'Bills' on
Rail Crossings
Reflecting a wide interest in
public affairs, members of Salem's
three Hi-Y chapters are drafting
mocK legislative bills on railroad
crossing signals, lowering of vot
ing age to 18 and abolition of cap
ital punishment.
These and other bills were dis
cussed at the JMCA last night
when the Hi-Y groups met togeth
er to prepare for their participa
tion in the Youth and Government
program in which youth organiza
tions, will hold a model legisla
ture here on April 2 and 3.
Sneaker at the meeting was At
torney John Steelhammer, a for
mer state legislator, who told the
boys about legislative procedures.
Adviser John Gardner said the
Hi-Y groups will have separate
meetings at school next week,
when the respective chapter com
mittees will further the work on
several bills they will present at
the mock legislature.
Ends Today I
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TWO MEN WITH ONE SOUl EACH IIVINC
THE OTHERS' IOVES AND JOYS AND HATES!
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Rett Cross Lifesaving
das Underway
A Bad Cross senior lifesaving
class Is underway with 24 mem
bers, Instructor Al Minn reported
last night after the first regular
class session In the YMCA swim
ming pooL He said new members
may join the class at next Tues
day night's I o'clock meeting, but
not after.
A junior lifesaving class will be
opened by Minn at 7 p.m. Monday
in the YM pooL
Pay Increase
For Teachers
Recommended I
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The budget committee of Salem
school district has recommended
salary increases for 1948-49 that
are expected to add about six
mills to the tax levy. Superin
tendent Frank B. Bennett report
ed to the school board Tuesday
night. The annual boost over
present base salaries would be
$480 for teachers and adminis
trative staff, $300 for janitors and
$240 for secretaries.
The board approved contract
renewals and regular changes in
the tenure system for a Urge
group of teachers now within the
three-year probationary period.
Bennett reported that at some
time this year a vote may be
taken on consolidating Mountain
View district, north of West Sa
lem, with Salem district.
Kindergarten Undecided
When a proposal to include
kindergartens in the public school
system will be on the ballot re
mained undecided. Directors in
dicated the impossibility of add
ing such a program in buildings
already overtaxed by regular
school population.
In the public discussion of the
proposed building program, most
of the speakers advised measures
similar to that of the citizens'
committee, noting the present
high cost of building and warn
ing against too great an increase
in the tax millage. as well as
citing the community's other
needs, such as sewerage and hos
pitals. Ne Half-Day Shifts
While Mrs. Lawrence Fitzger
ald of the Junior Woman's club
reminded that "you can't post
pone education" and it was urged
that parents assuredly didn't
want haJf-day shifts for pupils.
Fred Paulu-s. deputy state treas
urer, expressed doubt that all the
building should be done at pres
ent and that all the bonds should
be issued immediately. Mayor R
L. Elfstrom. however, declared
the district "should not settle for
any less" than the outlined pro
gram. SNOW FALLS OVER CASCADES
Snow continued to fall in east
ern and central Oregon Monday
night, with 101 inches of road
side snow at Santiam Junction,
State Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock reported here Tuesday.
Toastmasters
To Publicize
Freedom Train
Members of Salem Toastmasters
club will address all Salem serv
ice clubs in the near future on
subjects related to the appearance
here of the freedom train, sched
uled April 6.
This was decided by the club
at its dinner meeting last night
in Nohlgren's restaurant when
film strips on the Freedom train,
w hich exhibits documents and me
mentoes of American history, were
shown. The club delegated as
speakers for the project Wilmer
Lamb, Charles Schmitz. Tom Kel
ly, Joseph Dodd. Robert Sprague.
Ralph Gordon and Cob urn Gra
benhorst. Showing of the film strips in
connection with the table topics
discussion last night produced
lively controversy over the possi
bility of lowering official voting
age to 11. Darel Jones conducted
the table topics, Lewis Mayers was
toastmaster and Edward Roth, A.
D. Ling, Tom Kelly and Carl Jor
dan and Ralph Nohlgren were
the regular speakers.
"HOUSFXTTPERS DAUGHTER"
and TUXEDO JUNCTION"
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A. K. WET JEN
Albert Wetjen,
Former State
Writer Dies
SAN rRANCISCO. March -(yp)
-Albert Richard Wetjen, 47. writ
er of sea and adventure stories
and former Oregon resident, died
here last night
Wetjen, a native of London,
took up writing while working as
a farm hand at Harrisburg, Ore. He
wrote a number of books, and his
short stories frequently appeared
in magazines.
Wetjen went to sea at 13 and
twice was shipwrecked. After
British army service in the first
world war he went to Canada.
From there he went to Oregon in
1921. and in 1923 married Ed y the
Eisenbrandt of Albany.
Among books written while he
was in Oregon were "Way For a
Sailor," "Fiddler's Green.' "Cap
tains All." and "Youth Walks on
a Highway." He considered "Fid
dlers Green" his best.
Albert Richard . Wetjen. San
Francisco writer who died Mon
day, was a Salem resident for sev
eral years following his European
travels of 1924 and 1925.
He edited the Oregon Magazine
for local publisher Murray Wade
for two years. He was a member
of Capital post 9, American Le
gion. His last visit to Oregon was in
July, 1944. when he went into
Portland shipyards for atmosphere
for his writings. He has been in
correspondence with Ethan Grant.
Salem writer, who said he had
been In poor health in recent
months.
Morse Backs
Tax Reduction
WASHINGTON. March -
Senator Morse (R-Ore) took a
stand today in favor of lower
federal income taxes.
He said, "I am convinced that
the great majority of my con
stituents in Oregon and the peo
ple of the country want some form
of tax relief this year."
Morse added that he tavomi
tax reforms advocated by Paul
G. ' Hoffman, president of the
Studebaker corporation.
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Chennanlt Line
Plane Attacked
By Fighters
TSINGTAO. North China, Wed
nesday, March !-ir-CapL A. L
Burridge, Shantung manager for
the Chennault airline, said today
the line will continue flights from
Mukden despite "a soviet attack"
Monday.
Two P-39 Tighter planes marked
with red stars, the airline had re
ported earlier, fired machine guns
at a Chennault transport but evi
dently were not trying to hit it
It was undamaged.
"They apparently wanted to
scare us away," said Burridge, a
former marine flier from Cadillac,
Mich. "We are not going to be
scared."
(Russians occupy Port Arthur
and Dairen, Manchuria, near the
air route from Mukden to China
proper.)
It is the first such incident re
ported here. The airline, devel
oped as a commercial venture by
retired MaJ. Gen. Claire L. Chen
nault, was engaged in evacuating
some 7.000 persons from commu
nist-isolated Mukden.
Leftist-Hued
Finn Board to
Discuss Pact
HELSINKI, March 9 --Pres
ident Juho Paasikivi appointed to
day a leftist-hued delegation for
the talks in Moscow on a Russo
Finnish treaty of friendship and
military aid.
The seven-man delegation will
be headed by Premier Mauno Pek
kala, who was given authority to
"sign any documents possibly aris
ing out of the negotiations."
Parliament will have to ratify
any pact agreed upon in Moscow.
A majority of parties in parlia
ment oppose any military alliance
with the Russians on the grounds
it would put Finland in the soviet
eastern bloc. Three members of
the delegation represent parties
who are against a military pact.
The discussions are expected to
begin in the soviet capital on or
about March 20 - - about three
weeks after Prime Minister Stalin
made the treaty proposal in a let
ter to Paasikivi.
20-30 to Talk
Of Delinquency
Salem 20-30 club will consider
how it can help in a recently
developed county program for
combatting juvenile delinquency
at a meeting next Tuesday night
in the Gold Arrow restaurant.
It will be Employers' night
when members of the young serv
ice group bring their employers
as dinner guests. On the program
will be J. R. Turnidge, Jefferson
area farmer who offered a sum
mer program for several youth
last year; Sidney Lambius, school
truant officer, and Circuit Judge
George R. Duncan.
At the club's dinner meeting last
night movies on sports and "The
New Oregon Trail were shown
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Gas Leak to
Delay Reynolds
SHANGHAI, Wednesday March
10-0Pr-Tne transport plane of the
Milton Reynolds scientific expe
dition has developed serious gas
oline leak and will be flown back
to Los Angeles for repairs under
what the millionaire manufactur
er said were "highly dangerous'
circumstances. -
He said his pilot William P.
Odom of Boslyn. N.Y.; flight en
gineer Carroll Saliee, Dallas, Tex.:
a Chinese air force lieutenant and
a radioman have volunteered to
make the trip. They may take off
today. They will stay In the pilot's
compartment because anyone rid
ing in the main cabin "wouldn't
have a chance" in event of an ex
plosion, Reynolds related.
The leaky gasoline system will
delay for at least three weeks his
plans for aerial exploration of
mountainous western China. Fuel
pump trouble first developed at
Wake island, en route to China,
he explained.
GI Bill Adds
Requirement
For School Aid
WASHINGTON. Msrch t -ifp)
The government pay envelope is
going to be thicker come May 1
for many veterans going to school
under the GI bil) of rights, but
there's a big "if."
They'll be thicker if the vet
eran is a full time student that
is, if he's attending classes 25
hours a week by the clock, or
taking 12 semester hours, as many
colleges figure it
Those taking less classroom
instruction will have to get along
with the same monthly check
they're getting at present.
They're part time students, in
the eyes of Uncle Sam, and the
theory is that they can earn
money for themselves on the side.
Full time students, on the oth
er hand, are supposed to have
their hands full Just going to
school. And so:
A man with no dependents will
get ' $75 a month instead of the
present $65.
A man with one dependent will
get $105 a month atd a man with
more than one dependent will
get $120 a month.
The present payment is $90 a
month for a man with one or
more dependents.
Seattle Elects
Mayor Devin
SEATTLE, "March -fiP)-Mayor
William T. Devin of Seattle appar
ently was reelected to his post by
a narrow margin tonight in the
city's municipal election.
With all of the city's 657 pre
cincts reporting, he had a lead of
1,594 over his opponent. Allan
Pomeroy. former assistant U. S.
district attorney. About 2,000 ab
sentee ballots remained to be
counted.
The final unofficial totals: Dev
in 66,814. Pomeroy 65,020.
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; mnCAfZfV March m-lBKSZVKA.
ding cqcoooatiAtj prices gave infla
tion a new Jong-rangs wallop to-
I Wholesale markets registered
their second auocessiva avmn
daily decline. The retreat int tha.
average price of ti major com-
mooiues ia ine lowest level In
seven monUSs.
' The decline reversed a gradual
recovery trend that started after
the sharp) commodity market
slump of erly February.
The Associated Press weighted
wholesale Drice index of IS com.
modifies dropped nearly a point
co 1 bo Js. (This compared with
188.56 a week ago, 188.64 a month
ago and 181.54 a year 'ago. It was
the lowest inoint since tha (nrf
stood at 183.37 on August 1. The
previous if 48 low of 188.32 was
set on rriday, Febrary 13. Prices
in 1926 were 100.
The index prices prevailed on
most major commodity markets
after a sharp drop early in trad
ing. j
Wheat finished l'4 higher to 2Vs
cents lower on the Chicago board
of trade. The Mar contract was
$2J6V4-4.f This was only JVi
4' 4 cents above the grain cereal's
1948 low. 1
Com was 1 cent higher to 2Vm
lower, May $2.13-$2.13 Vi. Oats
were V lower to 1 higher, May
$1.1-S.' Soybeans plunged the
daily 8 cents limit,: March $3.50.
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Board Seeks
Bids on East
Oregon Project
The state board of control Tues
day railed for bids on a new em
ploye dormitory for the eastern
Oregon state tuberculosis hospital
at The Dalles and gave tentative
approval for erection of a phy
sicians' cottage there, provided a
satisfactory bid is received.
Bids on the dormitory for 48
employes will be opened April 16.
Cost is estimated at $265,770, all"
but $30,000 of which would coma
from the state building fund. The
$30,000 was provided in a legisla
tive appropriation.,
Appealing for the new construe- ,
tion at The Dalies, Dr. J. M. OdelL
superintendent of the hospital, told ;
the board.' "If we, are to employ .'
and retail) competent help we :
must have more living accommo- ,
da lions." i
CHILE TO OUTLAW REDS
SANTIAGO. Chile, March 9-CJT)
The cabinet approved today a de
cree removing all communists
from government jobs. The gov-.-eminent
also is considering a law
virtually banning the communist
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