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60 Commercial Airplane Flights
Handled Daily at McNary Field;
Airmail Pouches Diverted Here
Salem airport facilities, augmented Tuesday, are now handling
bout 60 flight daily of three commercial airlines largest flight
operational activity in the field'i history.
Planes of United Air Lines and Western and Northwestern Air
Lines are using the Salem runway in lieu of the abandoned Portland
Columbia airport.
All .three lines are using the
UAL Salem facilities to handle ,
4-Motor Planes, Waiting Lines at Salem Airport
their passengers. In the daily scne
dule about 40 of the transports
are United Airlines', six from
Western and about six or eight
for Northwest Airlines, with the
rest unscheduled extras from the
three operations.
In the air control tower at the
field, civil aeronautics nut: r.i
has brought in two receiving i;i
dios and one transmitter from
Portland. The instruments were
operating Tue.-day.
Wendell Haley. CAA senior air
port controller, and Howard Pe
terson, CAA airport tower con
troller, are in charge of the tower.
Both Portland men arrived here
Monday.
Official Arriving
Carl Kusrow, Seattle CAA re
gional airport traffic control sec
tion chief, is to be in Salem to
day to decide on what additional
control equipment will be in
atalled and on how long the tow
er here will be manned, accord
ing to Claude Thompson, traffic
control chief at Portland.
It is possible the big airline
transports may use the Salem air
port a month if the Portland field
Is "flooded badly". Haley said.
Telephone crews Tuesday set up
a direct telephone communication
with Seattle, Wash . and Portland
from the Salem tower.
Ucht Gun' Sent
A "light gun" arrived at the
tower late Monday and is being
used to direct both night and day
landings. It is a large light which
emits various colore as signals to
pilot. . i
All airmail to and from Portland
la being handled through the Sa
lem postoffice, Albert Gragg. Sa
lem postmaster, said Tuesday.
Portland postoffice sends its out
going airmail pouches to Salem
by tra.n. for dispatch by air from
here
Incoming airmail for Portland
from CahMrnia. Seattle arid a.l
eatern points is dixerted here
and sent to Portland by train.
Everything "is working out
nicely at the Salem United Air
Lines office." according to C C.
Bobin-on. Portland, passenger
aervice manager.
nnr on Schedule
Planes are on schedule, he said,
and pasngert originally sched
uled to land at Portland are be
ing taken there by UAL limou
sine service from Salem. The di
rect wire commun. cations to Se
attle enables Seattle reservations
to be made from the Salem field.
Tents were set up beside the
regular UAL office Tuesday to
arvommodate waiting passengers.
The reservation office was moved
Into the present airport hangar
on the north side of the field.
75 Workers Here
A loud-sceaker system arrived
from San Francisco and is being (
used to direct activities. About ;
75 Portland UAL employes are
now working at the Salem opera
tion. Robioson said 1
Robinson said the local field "is
adequate" to handle the big four
motored planes. He said the land
ing ara is not crowded and the
landing surface is good.
Wallace Hug, Salem airport
manager. and Don Killinger,
maintenance man. are cooperat- ,
Ing with the air lines setting up
operations here. They said Tues
day that the road leading to the
went entrance to the airport will
be dampened and that light lunch
facilities will be set up on the ;
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HEARING ORDERED
Public Utilities Commissioner
John H. Carkin Tuesday ordered
a hearing for June 10 on the :
application of the Maas Freight
Transport to abandon common j
carrier service between Forest i
Grove and Pi'xton, via Oregon
fate highway No. 47, and be
tween Hillsboro and Roy via
North Plains, over Washington
county roads.
Petition Asks
School District
Border Moved
Marion county district boundary
i board Tuesday took under ad
visement a petition to add a sec
tion of what is now AumsviMe
school district to the Sublimity
! school district.
A similar proposal was reji1edi
' by the board last year. Under '
the petition about 2.000 nrres
would be removed from Aum
ville district's northern bound.iry
and added to the Sublim.ty area's '
southern boundary.
bout 13 families are involved
in the area, the board was told.
L. L. Doerfler of Sublimity
rpeaking for the petitioners, said
th.-.t children in the controversial
; r-ea now go to the Sublimity
school, that the school bus sched
ule did not get the children to
the school early enough to attend '
the Catholic church there and
got them home often late at night.
Mrs. Frank South who lives in
the area involved opposed the
change on the grounds that she
would be forced to send her
child to Sublimity or pay tuition
at Aumsville school.
rred Bates and Henry Tate,
both members of the Aumsville
school board, opposed the change
on the grounds thet it would take
the heart out of the Aumsville
district and that the issue was a
religious one.
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Jaycees Hear
VA Officials
Hospital, training and educa
tional benefits for World War II
veterans were summarized for Sa
lem Junior Chamber of Commerce
Tuesday noon by Ridgley Miller
and Wayne Smith of the Salem
office of the veterans administra
tion. Smith said 10,000 seriously dis
abled veterans in Oregon need vo
cational training and employment.
Miller described what medical and
surgical services are available to
veterans. They addressed the
group at a Marion hotel luncheon.
- Thursday Specials
clematis ,'
51.00
Large flowering clematis
Several
elra
Wednesday
Hydrangeas
Re. $1.00
600 Ea
Mexican Orange
$i.lU I SST 3 , 50c
Don't delay. Plant now while bailed shrubs can still; be
safely planted.
KIIIGHT PEARCY IIURSER
South Liberty, 3 Blocks South of State
Kereaa Mams, several Tar ie ties,
Ked Michaelmas Daisy. Dabl
Busy scenes like the above picture Salem airport's record - breaking activity as passenger planes of
three big airlines use the Salem field for operations while the Portland Columbia airport is flood
ed. Top photo shows passengers disembarking from a four-motored United Airlines transport Tues
day morning, while another plane is background Is being readied for flight. Passengers, whose num
bers overtaxed the local UAL facilities are shown waiting (bottom photo) for their flight. In spite
of the warm sun one elderly woman (right) is wrapped In a blanket as she wait for her nlane
(Statesman-McF.wan photos.)
Burglars Take
Miscellaneous
Loot in Thefts
California!! Views
Marion Coimtv's
Microfilm Unit
Construction
Off to Good
Start in June
June was off to a good ufart
today as a building month, with
nty prrmit issuerl Tuesday for
$86,000 in new construction, fol
lowing May's drop below figures
for both the preceding month and
May. 1947.
Liist month's permfcs totaled
$373,012. including $.140,375 in
new buildings and $32,637 in al
teration. In April the total was
$734,949 and In May of laot year
$432,960, according to the city en
gineer's office.
Tuesdays largest permits were
for projects already announced
and sl.irted a 41,000. clinic
building at 2444 Grear st. for the
Eye and Ear clinic of Drs. Findley.
Clement. Thompson. Baum and
Dunham: and a $25,000 church at
1035 Gaines st. for Central Luth
eran church.
Permission was granted for five
new houses, to be erected by Fred
Roberts at 685 and 695 Waldo st..
each to cost $4,000; C. E. Bigler at
1550 and 1560 Norway it . each
$5,000. and J. V. Spoelstra at 1256
N. 5th st.. $2,000. Other permits
were issued to Murco Ringnalda to
alter garage at 165 W. Washington
St., $150; Carra Delaney to reroof
dwelling at 570 S. Winter st.. $300;
John Dorcus to alter dwelling at
2171 Chemeketa.st., $150.
Clothing and tools were among
items reported to city police Tues
day as stolen from Salem resi
dence and autos during the past
few days.
B. K. True. 640 N. Commercial
St., said a fur coat had been stolen
from his car Salem Laundry Co.
reported a blue serge suit end a
brown overcoat taken from the
laundry on Broadway street.
Tools, including several sockets
and wrenches and a chisel, were
stolen Sunday from his basement,
according to Ben W. Smith, 1085
Erixon st. He said the thief en
tered the ret of the house, but
took nothing else.
Mrs. Geneva Isaacson. 15)5 N. -
Summer st.. reported three strings Mprt mil r.V
John L Stewart, Santa Barbara
county. Calif , was in Salem Tues
day looking over the photostatic
equipment in the office of Marion
County Recorder Herman Lanke.
Stewart, who is purchasing
agent for the California county,
informed Lanke that his county
was intending to install equipment
similar to that in Marion county.
Lanke also announced Tuesday
that all mortgages and deeds re
corded at his office since 1943
have been microfilmed for preser
vation. All instruments recorded prior
to 1943 were microfilmed during
the war by his office, Lanke said.
His staff is now busv microfilm-
bankrupt under the 20 per cent
limitation, imposed to retain ma
terials for domestic rebuilding.
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ing other instruments
1943 to the present.
dated from
of nearls stolen from her resi
dence. Albert J. Volk. 1616 N. 5th
St.. said three flipper disc hubcaps
were stolen from his car. parked
at his residence.
Board of Education
To Take Up Budget
The state board of education i
will meet In Salem today to con- 1
sider the basic school support
fund administrative budget and
minor changes in the regulations
for certification of teachers.
The basic school support fund i
; law is administered by the state 1
education department. '
Brownies Visit
Kiwanis Club
Reports on many of the var- .
;ied activities of the Salem Kiwa-
nis club were presented to the
club members at a meeting Tues
day in the Marion hotel. f
Sixteen members of the Brown
ie Girl Scouts, sponsored by the
Salem Kiwanis club, were present
ed by the ehairman of the com
mittee. Gus Moore. Mrs. Orville
! Cox, leader, directed the small !
; girls In several songs.
! Among the accomplishments of
the Salem Kiwanis club listed was
.the organization of North" Salem j
I Kiwanis club which starts its
meetings next Monday night with
a dinner at 6:45 at the Gold Ar-
row restaurant, raiem ciuo is iu
present the program,
j Advertising the "family base
ball night at Waters parK rnaay.
June 4, four members of the club
entertained. Carl Greider recited
"Casey at the Bat", and Gus
Moore, Al Loucks and Ron Hud
kins illustrated the reading with
a pantomime of the story.
The family night is to be a bene
fit for Salem YMCA.
ac-
pense
Accounts Filed
rnmary election expense
counts filed with the Marion coun
ty clerk Tuesday showed Denver
Young, republican nominee for
sheriff, $99; S. W. Burns, unsuc-
cessful candidate for sheriff. $73;
Ervin A. Ward, unsuccessful can-j
didate for Salem district constable,!
$223; R. Shelton, county assessor, j
none: Gene Malecki. unsuccessful i
candidate for county treasurer, i
$201; N. M. Lauby, Mt. Angel jus-j
tice of the peace, $5.
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ISLANDS TO EXPORT
MANILA, June 2-( Wednesday)
fPi-Philippine lumber producers
beginning June 4 may export their
output instead of the present 20
per cent. President Elpidio Qui
rino announced today. Local Jum- !
bermen said they were going '
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Come in Today for
an Appraisal!
I
mi?(fl)ETMT MOTICB
to all nses:s o! eledneifty
Please reduce use of electricity to
the absolute minimum of your re
quirements between the hours of
8 a. m. to 12 noon from now through
Friday.
Generating capacity of the North
west power pool has been serious
ly curtailed due to flood conditions.
Your cooperation in conserving
power will help to protect against
possible serious disruptions of el
ectric service when it is vitally
needed during the flood emer
gency. Portland Senegal Skdnc
Hear
Dr. James K.
Quay
Vice-President of
Princeton Seminary
"THE MISSIONARY IMPLI
CATIONS OF THE MUDDLE
IN THE MIDDLE EAST'
Wednesday, 8:00 P. II.
First Presbyterian
Church
Come Hear
Evangelist
Ada Dowe
f Pasadena, California
at the
United Pentecostal
Church
445 Ferry St
Tuesday thru Friday
at 7:30 P. M.
Special Healing Services
Thursday Night
Nathaniel Wilson, Pastor
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