1 Th Statesman, Solam, Ozoqoa, Tuesday April 27, 1948
Salem Council Delays Action
On 3 Bills; Zone Hearings Set
(Council news also on page 1)
f Action on three city ordinance bills pertaining to rail traffic and
zoning matters was withheld by the Salem city council Monday night
at Salem Chamber of Commerce.
Alderman Albert H. Gille asked a two-weeks delay on his con
troversial bill requiring churches and schools in residential areas to
get neighbors' and council permission for adding to present buildings.
The city planning and zoning com
mission has recommended that the
bill be killed and local church in
terests are opposing the measure
which would restore zoning con
trols which the council relin
quished last year.
adopted for Grove street from
Broadway to 4th; Olive street
from 15th to the east end of
Olive: Norway street from Com
mercial to Liberty: Jefferson, from
Cottage street to Fairgrounds
A bill making it unlawful for i road; Oxford street from Berry to
trams to block the Center street - 12th, and an alley near Market
approach to the intercounty bridge i and E streets. Initial petitions for
at rush hours was laid on the street improvements were ac
table after City Manager J. L. cepted from property owners a
Franzen reported that railroad long Pine street, between Laurel
officials have cooperated on a , an(j Hazel and along South Winter
satisfactory plan" of traffic con- between Cross and the end of
trol since the bill was introduced j the street.
April 12. He said train switching j The city formally accepted
operations would be synchronized i jurisdiction over Iowa and Beach
with traffic lights to minimize the avenues, upon receipt of a county
blocking of traffic at Front street. ! court order releasing them from
Spur Bill Delayed ; county jurisdiction. Both are in
A spur track bill was deferred I recently annexed city areas. It
after the manager reported that j was decided to open to traffic an
Larmer Transfer & Storage man- J alley near Hoyt and Summer
agement asked additional time to j street, the construction work to
study the city's proposal that a i be done this summer. Action was
second spur track be granted for
the warehouse on North Liberty
near the Belmont and Broadway
Intersection, on condition that part
of the present tracks be moved
delayed on a requested change of
sidewalk line on the east side of
5th street between Hickory and
Pine. The city engineer and city
manager recommended against the
from the street onto Larmer pro- , change, but Alderman David O'-
Hara asked for time to question
the petitioners as to their reasons.
Plan Active Dutv
Training in Mav
c5 -
Two of SalemV three army re-
perty. as an aid to traffic.
The council passed a bill ac
centing Diopertv from E. L. Bur
roughs for a 250-foot extension j
of John street. I .
Four new hills brought in would ! A Till V IXCSCFVIStS
set a 10-foot setDacK nne on ivrni i
street between 17th ar.d 18th
streets, vacate an alley in the
North Capitol street block which
is site of the proposed new state
office building, place Grant school
within the first ward (instead of
ward 5) to provide a precinct i serve units will go to Fort Wor
polling place, and giv e South-! Jen, near Port Townsend. Wash.,
era Pacific a 20-yeai franchise for two weeks of active duty
tor its Union street tracks. from May 16 to 30, it was an-
Zone Hearings Slated j nounced in a reserve meeting at
Public hearing was set for May j Fort Salem Monday night
24 on a propoied alley vacation on j col George Spaur, commander
pioperty otherw ise owned by Sa- j OI the 369th engineers, announced
lem General hospital and now the i that his regiment and the 409th
site for a new med ical -dental I quartermasters. commanded by
clinic building west of the has-I Maj Homer Lyons, will go to
pital. Hearings were set for May , the fort for active training with
10 on zone changes which would the second engineers amphibious
permit development by Rich L. I brigade. The two groups met
Reimann ot a lumber yard near I jointly at the reserv e's headquar
13th street and Rural avenue and ! ters while the 415th infantry, un
erection of a Scottish Rite lodge ; er Col. Eugene Laird, met separ
building on North Summer at ; ately. J
Gaines street.-. j C'ol. Ben Nichols, reserve of-
Street improvement plans, at i fj(er and professor of electrical
property owners' expense, were engineering at Oregon State col-
. : - " " ! lege, addressed the engineers and
3Postsfilled
In GOP Board;
Aspirants Talk
Three important posts in Mar
ion county's republican organiza
tion were filled in a special meet
ing of the party's central commit
tee at the Marion hotel Monday
night.
Harry Humphrey of Stayton was
appointed state committnvan, re
placing John Carkin who resigned
recently when appointed state pub
lic utilities commissioner. Orville
Hager, Salem, was selected cen
tral committee treasurer in place
of Steve Anderson who resigned
after being elected state president
of the Young Republican club, and
Conrad Paulson, Salem, was chos
en a member of the central com
mittee's nominating committee.
The special meeting preceded
the "Know Your Candidates" pro
gram sponsored by the republican
women and other GOP organiza
tions. More than 300 persons, in
cluding nearly all of Marion coun
ty's GOP candidates, attended the
meeting.
Mrs. Florence Wright, president
of the Marion County Republican
Women's federation, presided at
the session. Introduced were B. E.
(Kelly) Owens, county chairman,
and Mrs. Paul Ficke, county vice
chairman, who, in turn, presented
members of the central committee.
Joe Land and Jim Collins, chair
men respectively of the Republi
can and Young Republican clubs
in Salem, were introduced as was
Mrs. William Burns. Portland,
state president of the women's
federation. Robert Fisher, jr.. Sa
lem, introduced the republican
candidates. Group singing and
serving of refreshments were in
cluded in the entertainment pro
gram. Reception committee members
were Nellie Schwab. Mrs. Ins De
Groot. Marjorie Harris. Elizabeth
Porter and Mrs. Abner Kline.
Serving refreshments were Mrs.
B. E. Owens, Mrs. R. W. Land,
Mrs. Steve Anderson and Mrs. Jim
Collins. Refreshment committee
comprised Mrs. P. A. Ficke, chair
man, and Mrs. Lewis Judson, Mrs.
B. W. Stacey, Mrs. Don Madison,
Mrs. Helen McLeod, Mrs. C. W.
Stacey and Mrs. Stanley Morris.
Jump from Ladder
Injures Workman
A. L. Scott, 809 Hood sL, suf
fered a broken heel Monday when
he was forced to jump from a lad
der to avoid being hit by a crane
load of lumber while working on
the Terminal Ice and Storage
company construction job on
North Commercial street, city first
aid attendants reported.
He was taken to Salem General
hospital in the first aid car and
was sent home after receiving
treatment.
Willie C Fisher
Dies During Work;
Funeral Thursday
Willie Cyrus Fisher, Salem res
ident for the past 19 years, died
suddenly of a heart attack Monday
morning while working at the Blue
Lake cannery in West Salem.
He was working as a laborer
about 11:30 a.m. when he suffered
the attack. Salem first aid men
were called to the scene, but re
ported Fisher had been pronounc
ed dead when they arrived.
Fisher, 1902 Broadway st., was
born at Island City, Ore., Sept. 15.
1889, and had lived in Salem since
1927.
Surviving are two daughters,
Mrs. Harold Ogren of Wenatchee,
Wash., and Mrs. Ray Martin of
Montesano, Wash.; three sons,
Harold Fisher of Eugene, Otis
Fisher of Salem and Russell Fish
er of Grants Pass; and three
brothers, Ira Fisher of Milton
Freewater. Harry L. Fisher of Spo
kane and Bruce Fisher of Enter
prise. Funeral services will be held
from Immanuel Baptist church
Thursday. April 29, at 2 p.m., the
Rev. Frederick Bennett officiating.
Direction will be by the Clough
Barrick company.
Muffler Blaze
Put Out Twice
At Pumphouse
City fire equipment was called
twice Monday night to the Port
land Gas and Coke company's
pumping station in the 100 block
on Chemeketa street where car
bon in a diesel engine muffler
caught fire.
The first fire broke out at 8
p m. and the second blaze about
9:45 p.m., firemen said, and each
was brought under control within
a few minutes. Joseph H. Dodd,
Salem manager, said little damage
was done by either fire and that
the diesel pump was operating a
short time after the second out
break. The diesel engine operates re
compression pumps which send
gas to Corvallis and Albany. The
muffler, which extends through
the roof from the engine, sent
flames shooting 20 feet in the air.
A fire which broke out in a
home at 1387 N. Winter st, San
day night burned out one room
and caused severe heat damage in
another, firemen reported. The
blaze broke out at about 8 p.m.
and was brought under control
a few minutes after firemen ar
rived. About an hour was re
quired to make the house safe,
firemen said, and the cause of the
fire was not determined.
English Royalty
Married 25 Years
LONDON. April 28 - (A") - King
George VI and Queen Elizabeth
celebrated their silver wedding
jubilee today amid demonstrations
of affection from their subjects
around the world.
The chief ceremony was a mid
day thanksgiving service at St.
Paul's Cathedral in London.
The royal couple drove in state
to the cathedral through miles of
cheering, waving multitudes.
Household cavalry in full dress
escorted the gilded state coaches
in the moat Lavish royal pageantry
since the wedding of Princess
Elizabeth and Prince Philip last
November.
82nd Birthday Observed
At Dallas by Polk Native
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quartermasters, speaking on the
hitoiy of the amphibious engin
eers. Sgt. Albert Lock wood led
the discussion on current events.
The reserve auxiliary women
served refreshments to all three
units.
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Chin-Ups Gain
On Fund Drive
The Chin-Up club of Oregon,
founded in 1941 by Beth Sell wood
of Salem who still is its president,
has netted $5,768 from its latest
building fund drive and now has
$9,259 available for its project, a
compilation showed Monday. The
drive was begun last August.
A workshop, living quarters and
permanent home for Oregon's
crippled and handicapped persons
is the club's immediate aim. The
club's officers, trustees, advisers,
attorneys and workers have con
tributed their efforts to that end
without remuneration.
The club has no age limit, and
is non-denominational, non-profit
and non-political. Members more
than 25 per cent disabled pay no
dues.
Cement Price
System Banned
WASHINGTON. April 26 .-tA-The
cement industry's ''basing
point" system of prices - - under
which all mills charge the same
prices in any one market, no mat
ter how far the mill is from that
market was outlawed today by
the supreme court.
The ruling, which upheld an or
der by the federal trade commis
sion, may have a far-reaching ef
fect on other prices in heavy in
dustry in cases where a common
system of delivered prices is in
effect.
In particular FTC officials ex
pected it to have a strong bear
ing on a steel case now pending
before the commission.
The supreme court also:
Held 5-4 that mere ownership,
by a single person or corporation,
of both a railroad and a concern
which ships over the line, does not
violate a 1906 law forbidding a
railroad to carry commodities in
which it has an interest.
Two Men Held
In City Jail
After Scuffle
Two Salem men were being held
Monday night in the city jail, one
charged with carrying two loaded
pistols, after another man was tak
en to a hospital with severe head
lacerations suffered in an alter
cation in a north end cabin, city
police reported.
Joe L. Young, 944 N. Commer
cial st., was treated in Salem Gen
eral hospital for several long cuts
on the back of his head and dis
missed, police said. The scuffle,
police said, took place in Young's
cabin.
Held in the city jail are Jack
Luffman and Bedford Owens, both
of 1225 S. 25th st Luffman. Young
told police, struck him with an
unknown instrument, knocking
him unconscious.
Luffman is being held for the
state parole board. Police said
Owens was found in the cabin,
armed with a .38 calibre pistol and
a Mauser automatic, both fully
loaded. He is charged with car
rying concealed weapons and be
ing intoxicated.
Police said they were called to
the cabin at 5 15 p. m. when
neighbors reported a loud disturb
ance. They said they found a hat
chet lying on the floor and were
holding it as evidence. Owens ill
appear in municipal court today
and Luffman before the parole
board.
Stock Leaders
Drop Deeply
Under Selling
NEW YORK, April 26
Steady selling in today's stock
market dropped leading shares
fractions to an extreme of around
4 points lower.
The average decline equajed the
sharpest setback security prices
have experienced since February
10
Rails, farm implements and oils
were principal victims during
most of the session, but skidding
tendencies spread in the final hour
to vital motors, steels and met Is
Customers who had accumulat
ed profits on the extended ad
vance of the last few weeks con
tinued to cash in on them.
Several first quarter earnings
reports weie le:s favorable than
anticipated.
The Associated Pi ess 60-to-k
composite was off 9 at 7 1 A
Mmil.ir drop on March 16 was the
only other decline of such size
since early February, of I.0fi3 is
sues traded there were 671 len
and 212 gamers.
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IDEAL COUNTRY FUEL
'Fffec-tto-logc'
CLEAN
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ECONOMICAL
CAPITOL LUMBER CO.
N. Cherry Arenuo Phon 8862
Bourne Buys Building
On Capitol Street
Purchase of the 1140 N. Cap
: itol st. business property formerly
I occupied by O. K. Cleaners was
announced Monday by Joseph L.
Bourne, Salem realtor, who will
occupy part of the building now
and expand his business later.
Bourne, combat veteran of Af
rica and Europe, first came to Sa
lem as a member of the original
cadre of the 96th Timberwolf di
i vision, formed at Camp Adair, and
moved his family here during the
war when he purchased a home in
the Englewood district On his re
turn from the service he was as
sociated with R. A. Forkner as a
real estate salesman and broker,
establishing his own office a year
ago.
Presfoyterv Meet
In Gervais Today
Election of a moderator and
commissioners to the general as
sembly are on the agenda for a
meeting of the Willamette presby
tery today at 1:30 p m in the
Gervais Presbyterian church. Har
veySchmidt of Lebanon, modera
tor, will preside.
Official representatives from
the Salem church are W. W.
Rosebraugh and John S Harper,
elders, and Dr. Chester Hamblin,
pastor.
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SPECIALS
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Pres. Hoover, Paul Searlet
climber. Reg. $1.00
60 c
Special
Each
Tuesday Through
Thursday Only
Grape vines. 15 varieties at
30C Each
Cuthbert Rasp- CZff
berry, dozen
Pie cherry
Almond trees T w
Still safe to plant fruit and shade trees, rose and berry
bushes. But hurry, the season for bare root plants is short.
Bleeding Heart
Blooming
Hedge privet
Doxen .
$1.25
$1.00
Gladiolus bulbs
Doxen ...
Dwarf boxwood
Doxen
. 40c
$2.00
Landscape your new home NOW. Pay by the month.
Ask details. A $100 planting can be paid In 24 monthly
payments of $4.59 each.
KHIGHT PEARCY IIURSEIIY
So. Liberty 3 blocks south of Stake
Governor Returns
Gov. John H. Hall returned to
Oregon early Monday after three
days at Sacramento attending a
conference of western governors.
Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry
served as governor during Hall's
absence.
RANCHER'S BODY FOl'XD
JOHN DAY. Ore., April 26 -(A3)
The body of Earl Smith, 55,
wealthy eastern Oregon wheat
rancher, was found today snagged
onto a ranch fence along the bank
of the John Day river. Three men
are held in the Grant county jail
on charges of grand larceny in
the case. They were arrested April
16 driving Smith's truck toward
John Day.
Deed Trading
Set hv Boards
Exchange of property deeds be
tween the state highway commis
sion and state board of control, so
that construction can start on the
highway department's proposed
$1,000,000 office building here will
feature a meeting of the control
board today.
The structure will be bounded
by Capitol, Summer, Chemeketa
and Center stree. Highway de
partment officials said they hoped
to have construction under way
not later than June 1 Bonds, to
mature over a long period of years,
will be issued by the highway
commission for financing pur
poses. The highway commission now
occupies space in the present state
office building.
Grain Prices j
Show Losses j
CHICAGO. April 26-4-Grains
sank in another weak market to- J
day. but final prices were well
above the day's lows. More rain in j
the southwest, a fuither lowering
of government wheat buying pn- i
ces and fears of oats imports from ,
Canada combined to caue the ,
selling
Prices were off a couple of
cents at the opening Selling pre- j
sure continued throughout the
first hour until May wheat and
May corn weie down around 4(
rents. May wheat sank below last
wevk's low. as did all deferred ,
corn contracts A mild rally de
veloped toward the close
At the finish wheat was I'i-1
2' lower. May $2 38si-,i. corn
was 1 to 2 cents lower. May
52 15-2 15. oats were T lu 2,
cents lower. May $ I 07 - 1 . and)
soybeans were unchanged to a
cent higher. May $3 96
WIDOW OKTS MONEY
ONTARIO. Ore. April 2 -0" -
Settlement of the estate of the ,
late W. D Broadhurst. eastern ,
Oregon rancher murder ed on a .
lonely road last year, awarded the '
jailed widow about one-third of
his $150,000 estate. Mrs Gladys
Broadhurst. now serving a sen
tence in the Oregon penitentiary
for her part in the crime, also re-
ceied the residue from sale of i
the chiropractor's Jordan valley
ranch for $51,000.
By Beelali Craves
Statesman Correspondent
MONMOUTH Mrs. Lena A.
Boon, a native of Polk county,
observed her 12nd birthday this
week at her new home in Dallas.
Born April 19, 11M, on her fath
er's donation land claim at Oak
Crove, lena Allen spent her early
years there and attending Salem
schools including Willamette uni
versity. Her father, John C. Al
len. rrotued the plains to Oregon
in 1844 .and her mother, Miriam
Harris came in 1853.
From early childhood she
wanted to play a piano. She says
she used to go into the wuxt
shed, ket up a couple of saw
horses, topped with boards, and
imagine herself seated at an in
strument, performing. The sum
mer of her tenth year she was
helping her fattier clear the
sickle of a mowing machine from
tangled grits, when the guard
slipped, taking off the ends of
two fingers en her right hand,
rinse to Cherished
For awhile it looked as though
she might never realize her am
bition to play a piano, but she
kept on cutting out picture of
pianos and organs from maga
zines, and when her hand was
healed her father took her to the
rn'sK department head at Wil
lamette for his opinion. The ver
dict was that she could still learn
to play. At Christmas her fattier
bought his daughter a beautiful
Steinway square grand in a solid
rosewood case, brought around
Cape Hoi n to Oregon. It ha been
its ownei cherished possession
for nearly three-four th of a cen
tury. She learned to play very well,
and still entertains herself and
her friend with her mutu. In
1890 he was married to Charles
Ldwiri Boone, also an Oak Grose
native. He died in 1B'J2. A few
yeais later Mis Boone tk up
chiropractic tuty and di'l pot
graduate work in Hoi t land She
practice! for a f vv tai in Sa
lem and lor man., c.ii at I'en
dUton. In 1 VI 1-12 she was a Monmouth
resident while her daughter, Elvi,
attended Oregon Normal school,
and they made many friends both
in and out ot school
Owns Tart of llemeslead
Mr. Bxn tull owns a tract
of her father s Oak Grove farm,
which is now a producing cherry
orchard. In H47 she and her
daughter built a new home in
Dallas at 511 Shelton st Mus
i i
Boon la a member of th Dallas
teaching staff. ! t
Mrs. Boone does much hand
work, era broidery and crochet,
and makes applique quilt. &h
is a member o( tha Methodist
church. WSCr, and tha Oak Grov
Woman's club. "You can do about
what youwant Xa do - If you
try hard enough has carried her
over much rough terrain into
serene old ag.
Lana Married '
To Millionaire
HOLLYWOOD April 2 V
Lana Tdrner ttxlay added tha
crowning touch to her Cinderella
story - - she married million
aire, i
The Hollywood high at hoot girl
turned movie star became the wife
of Henry J. (Bub) Topping, heir
to a tin-plate fortuna. Th crt
mony, by comparison with tha ot
tentstioua and movielik setting,
was simple and julet. It was bald
in the flower-drenched mansion of
William II. Wilkerson, who Urt
ed Lana on the. load to fame.
Topping, 34 and thrice-married,
spoke calmly and assuredly, .Lana,
also thrice-marrird, said her vowi
In a vole choked with emotion.
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REDS LOSE IN Cil.RMANV
FRANKFURT. Germany. April
2ft .4-Amencan military govern
ment officials said today the re
sults of Sunday's local elections
were a crushing defeat to com
munism in western Germany. At
the same time major gains were
made by minor right wing parties.
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EUGENE, April 26 -fTVA $17.
000 fire left seven families in the
Glenwood district near here home
less today. The blaze roared
through four auto courts Sunday,
but all the dwellers escaped.
Cause was not Immediately determined.
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