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ters International Thsrsday nlsht for completion of basic speech training programs. Three others re
ceived the sward at the Saa Francisco convention in Judy. The 10 men, left to rifht, shown after the
presentation ceremony Thursday, arc Stearns Cash inf.; Wayne Smith, Dr. J. Harry Moran. Albert F.
Lamb. Marion Carry, eoa Coooey. William BUven, Elmer Amondson, Robert Batdorf and . A.
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Santiam Area
Road Assured
GATES A new road connect
ing Gates with the Elkhorn-Little
North fork section is still on
Marion county's road program for
this year, according to County
Judge Grant Murphy.
Murphy said the plans promised
last spring had not been aban
doned and would be fulfilled as
soon as possible. The intention is
not for an expensive road but for
one adequate for the limited traf
fic anticipated.
The judge added that "we don't
want to put that part of the coun
ty in the spot it was last year,1 re
ferring to the area's isolation last
fall when a logging truck broke
through the Lumker bridge in the
North Fork valley.
Comic Book Ban Seen as
Only First Step of Clean-up;
Agents Indicate Compliance
By Marguerite WIttwer Wright
Staff WrtUr. Tb Statesman
Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom's drive to dean Salem newstands of
"comic" magazines deemed unsuitable for juvenile consumption may
be fust the first step in an effort to censor other mass-communication
. media that-critics say is bad fare for impressionable minds.
It might lead to an official censorship committee to list accept
able books and a set of punitive
ordinances, Elfstrom said. His
decision to ask for voluntary co
operation from local people (who
also objected to some nuns) ana
part of a widespread campaign.
Elfstrom's list of 4 banned
comics is one distributed by the
mayor of South Bend, Ind and
mentions those magazines which
are declared to place undue em
phasis on torture, murder, sex and
tend to glamorize criminal cnarac
ters.
Already "Cleaned Up"
The distributors. Jack H. St.
Clair of American News and
Claude T. Cummings of the Sa
lem News agency, who act as ag
ents for the publishers, said they
would pull the objectionable ti
tles (15 of the 150 they handle)
from the city newsstands as soon
as they get the publishers' okeh,
which they believe is forthcom
ing. But both men feel that local
dealers and the publishers them
selves have effectively censored
the worst publications, especially
during the last six months when
the heat has been on. '
"We only put the really bad
comics in beer parlors and sim
ilar places where just the adults
get to' them,' Cummings said, and
St. Clair pointed out that com
ics have a very large adult read
ership. The Association of Comics Mag
azines Publishers has set up stan
dards for better ' comics and has
publicized a list of titles put out
by firms who have agreed to abide
by the clean-comics code.
Lists Not Identified
However, of the 59 listed as
code-abiding comics, eight ara on
Mayor Elfstrom's list of objection
able books. Evidently, the pub
lishers and their critics do not
agree on what is acceptable ma
terial. And sometimes the publish
ers will drop a blacklisted title
only to publish' the samel mater
ial under a new title, Elfstrom
said.
That illustrates the problem any
effort to censor nublicationa is
likely to encounter. It is hard to
draw a line, the critics admit; and
Cummings added that other mag
azines should admit to the same
antiseptic for sexy and criminal
content.
"And what about newspaper
comic strips?' he asked.
The mayor's list of so-called
harmful comics follows:
All-Top. AH-Truo Crime. Authentic
folic Casern. Blue Beetle. Crime Does
Not Pay. Crime Ac Punishment. Crimea
by Women. Crime Detective. Crime
Xocooaed. Crime lighters. Crime Re
porter. Exciting. Exposed. Famous. Gang-
Cant Win. Cay. Guilty. Headline.
Jo-Jo. Joker. Jumbo. Justice. Kid Eter
nity. The Killers.
Lawbreakers - - Lose. Law"- - Crime.
Mar (Tie. Harchof Crime. Murder. Inc..
Penalty. Phantom Ladies. Public En
emies. Ranger. Real Clue.
Teen. Thrilling, True Crime. . Under
world. Wanted. War Against Crime,
women Outlaws. Young Romance.
Tit Comic.
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Silverton PTA
Reception Oct, 7
SILVERTON, Sept SO Mrs.
Martin Hannan has been made
general chairman of the annual
Parent-Teacher association recep
tion, at! 8 p. m., October 7 at the
Eugene ; Field auditorium.
Other committees arranging the
affair include program and enter
tainment, Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Naegeli, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Spen
cer; refreshments, Mrs. Ralph
Sears, Mrs. Ralph Schmidt, Mrs.
A. Ev McCollough, Mrs. Roy My
ers, Mrs. William Hannan; decora
tions, Mrs. Lloyd Larsen, Mrs.
Lowell i Brown, Mrs. James Hol
lingswoirth; flowers, Mrs.-Helmer
Brokke.
Mrs. j Harry Verier, president,
and Mrs. Gordon VanCleave, past
president have been asked to pour.
Wonian Wandering,
Found at Stayton
STAYTON A young woman
wandering down a Stayton street
at 3:30 a. m. Wednesday, her
hands -and face covered with
blood, treated excitement when
she was found byjinemen of the
Mountain States Power Company
who were working at the Stayton
Canning company, cooperative.
With the aid of Marshal E. V
Miller she was apprehended.
She resisted attempts to ques
tion her and had no identification
with ; her.
Marshal Miller and Mrs. Marge
Hudgins took the woman to Salem,
where physicians determined she
was uninjured. How she came to
have blood on her hands and face
is still a mystery.
She Was later taken to the state
hospital! where she was recognized
as a parolee from an institution.
The I northern shores of the
Great Lakes are' believed to be
rising at the rate of about a foot
every century.
Silverton Calls
Bids for Streets
SILVERTON Robert E. Bor
land, city manager, has been au
thorized to ak for sealed bids for
the improvement of Center and
Westfield streets. The bids will be
ooened at 7:30 p. m.. October 14.
at the council rooms at the city
hall.
Petitions for the improvement
of these streets have been in the
hands of the j city for several
months and work will get under
way shortly after the bids have
been accepted.
Rosedale Community
Club Meets Satiirday
ROSED ALErr-The first meeting
of the , Community club will be
held Saturday .jnight, October 2 at
the school house. A program has
been planned including a ventrilo
quist act by D.tD. Dotson.
Mr. and Mrs? Amos Sunderland
and small daughter Linda have re
turned from a trip to Wymore,
Neb.
Mr. and Mrs.. Robert Ladd arc
attending an electrician's ,conven
tion in Salt Lake City and' plan to
J isit relatives in MonUna on the
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Aid of YMCA I Dallas 'Mo Theatre Remodels
In Citizenship
Work Cited !
By Isabel Rosebranfh
Twenty-seven hundred ; persons
in the Salem area are citizens of
the United States today ; because
the YMCA helped prepare them
for their naturalization examina
tions. C. A. Kells. only recently re
tired as executive of the Salem Y.
over a period of many years has
taught most of the classes and has
been actively in charge of all. He
believes his students were inter
ested enough to work i toward
citizenship themselves. But. he
points out. when a community is
new and strange, the welcome of
fered by free naturalization
courses is an important feature of
a democracy to immigrants.
Almost without exception the
men and women who have taken
the classes have been timid. They
have turned again and again to
their teacher and the Young Men's
Christian association for counsel.
And the time and effort invested
on his part have been repaid in
satisfaction many times over, de
clares Kells, who is teaching the
first lessons in the new series of
naturalization classes this fall.
This YMCA activity alone fs
worthy of Salem Community
Chest support, according to Gus
Moore, Kells successor as Y exe
cutive secretary. (The 1948 Salem
Community Chest campaign for
$100,000 officially starts Tuesday.)
But the naturalization courses
are only one of the many sides of
community and boys' work at the
Y.
Adult activities as widely di
verse as the Weaver's Guild, hand
ball and Alcoholic Anonymous
center there. A Churchmen's
forum weekly luncheon meeting,
the Industrial Supervisor's club,
the Men's Garden club and literal
ly dozen's of other organizations
meet at the YMCA building, most
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Reed (announce the birth of a soli
at Dajlas hospital September 27. j
j A daughter, Sylvia; Del, was
born jto Mr. and Mrs. Robett
Dornhecker. at Dallas hospital,
September 29. I
Mr.! and Mrs. Raymond Haley of
Valse
are the parents of a
daughter born September 27 at
Dallas hospital.
JeffersonMr. apd Mrs. Ray
mond Shinn ara parents of a son,
Ronald Lee, born September 18 at
Albany General hospital. This is
their third son. Mrs. Shinn is the
former Shirely Jones, daughter f
Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Jones, i
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Beech sre
parents of a son. Rodney Lee, born
at Albany Willamette hospital
September 23. Mrs. Beech is tha
former Florence Ricks.
Adult mo:
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DALLAS Complete remodeling of the Rio theater In Dallas will be
finished early In November with major work being: done from the
foundations up. Shown above is the front of the old theatre build
ing which will have a large, modernistic marquee. Donald E. We ra
il, manager of the Rio and Majestic theatres, both owned by the
Jesse Jones theatres of Portland, said that the new Rio will have
new seats, decorations, screen and sound and projection equipment,
and that it will seat 400 people. (Photo by Don DilL Statesman staff
photographer. )
of them having been founded
through the Y.
So, more than the thousands of
boys and girls and young men and
women who participate in YMCA
swimming and other athletics and
camps will be interested in the
success of the Salem Community
Chest campaign, for the Y is a
Chest agency.
It is believed that Niagara Falls
will wear its way back to Lake
Erie in about 8,000 years.
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