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t I i TV It 8 The Statesman. Salem. Oregon. Thursday. October 21, 1948 Plan Keeps CourtMoiise Facing West The proposed new Marion coun ty courthouse will not be turned round to a north facing, as once considered,, it appeared from new plans in county offices Wednesday. The latest layout prepared by Architect Pietro Be II use hi shows the building continuing to face west, on High street. -k The shape of the structure, however, is considerably differ ent from that of the present court house, built in the 1870s. Since of fice space' requirements and in terior arrangements will determ ine the final appearance of the plan, officials are checking . the new plans regarding their parti cular locations and space.? FREE TEEN AGE 9MCE FrL, Oct. 21 9 to 12 Glen wood Ballroom Sponsored by Masicians Union Onrals Used Cars Willaiaette Amnsement Ttoy Simmons Ins. Co. General Finance Co. Woodry Furniture Co. 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'All Ily Sons Begins Sunday, Ocl. 24lh Salem Senior High School Sooter Tells Events Prior to Baley leath (Story also Ion page 1) DALLAS, OctI 2(M Special )-Tll feelings between Amos Sooter and the Fred Baley family were indi cated Wednesday 5in testimony pre sented at the first degree murder trial of Sooter, fwho is charged with the "ambuss shotgun" shoot ing of Baley lastf August 12. During the defendant's three hours of testimony, Sooter said "things went haywire" when his wife came into their home Thurs day night, August 9, accompanied by Baley, "who! had a case of beer." Sooter said later he asked if she was goingjto live with Mr. and Mrs. Baley and was told "I could if I wanted to." Sooter went on to say, "then it seems I slapped her." Next morning Mrs. Sooter was not in the small one-bedroom home, the defendant testified. Unable to Remember Sooter said hejwas actually un able to remember having slapped his wife, but that she said he had He denied he hit? her with his fist Mrs. Sooter, following Dr. Evans on the stand, admitted signing : a divorce complaint in which it was charged Sooter had beat her with his fists. She also testified Fred Baley had given! her the money reauired to file the complaint. Regarding the! acquaintance of his family with the Baleys Sooter said "there was too much drink ing, just beer but in the home and that is not right? He said he objected to his son marrying Mrs. Baley s daughter, because his son! was too young. (The son. John Ray Sooter, 19. and Mrs. Baley 's daughter, Mary Lou ise Day, 18, were;, married in Port land a few days after the shoot ing.) Left Home Angnst 5 The defendant's wife said she left her home August 5 after an al tercation with her husband. She said she found Sooter lying in bed and staring "wild-eyed" and they argued about hef going to-Baleys to live. Mrs. Sooter asserted her husband had swung the butt of his rifle at her and had threatened to kill himself before she fled the house and went to the Baley home for the night . The courtroom was crowded and latecomers ; this I afternoon stood along the-walls, moving up as the bailiff, Mrs. Edythe Hoistington, quietly indicated that they should. The courtroom was -quiet as the defendant testified in a low tone. frequently prompted by the court to speak louderx Often Defense At torney Bruce Spaulding or Dis trict Attorney R. S. Kreason asked to have the answer, repeated. n Fred Miller of Attorney General George Neuner's office in Salem assisted the Polk county prose cutor. Circuit Judge Artie Walker is sitting in the ease. i High j Students . . . At Salem Schools By James Cooke Statesman Scbool Corrcoatfat SALEM HIGH SCHOOL Thirty-five new members were initiated into the Snikpoh dramatic club at the Salem High cafeteria Wednesday. They came dressed as comic strip papers, in accordance with the theme. Marijo Ogle, club president, was general chairman for the initia tion and committee chairmen were: Decoration, Joyce Kirby; costumes, Lajune Rahtz; stunts. Sue Perry; programs, Zarelda Prince. Lela Johnson fand Mar garet Burroughs are Snikpoh fac ulty advisers. Flayers Rehearse Comedy The annual Snikpoh play will be held December 3 in the Salem high auditorium. Rehearsals for the! play, "I Remember Mama, have started and principal' parts have already been assigned. Parts have been assigned to Catherine Siegmund. Marijo Ogle, Douglas Van Dyke, Barbara White, Richard Geer, Susan Perry, Cath erifie Person, Ann Gibbens, Jud ith! Wood, Michael Martin, Jack Byers, Sid Wasserman, Susan Steed, Tatia Williams, Helen WTiet Zarelda Prince and Gilbert Bate- son. "I Remember Mama" is a com edy adapted by John van Duten frofn "Mama's Bank Account" by Kathryn Forbes. It shows in sev eral episodes the problems of an American family during the early years of this century. Schools Donate $1,144 to Chest A total of $1,144.34 was con tributed by. Salem schools for the Community Chest drive, Matilda Gilles, Richmond grade school principal and chest worker re ports. McKinley and Bush led the grade schools and all the junior high schools surpassed last year's donations. The quota for Salem high school also was met. Salem VFWs Visit Silverton Nearly a hundred members of VFW posts in the area attended the district meeting at the Silver ton armory Wednesday night Principal speakers for the ses sion were L. R. Henderson, epart meht junior vice commanAr and G. iO. Pike, state service ' off icer. Henderson spoke on athletics and junior activities sponsored by thei VFW, and Pike talked on serv ice! officer duties and veterans' legislation. Pike commended the district for its organization and officer personnel. Silverton's VFW post and auxil iary presented a short musical program and led group singing. Highway Bureau Tb Open Bids on Salem Building Bids for construction of a state highway department storage build ing here will be opened November 4 by the state highway commis sion In Portland. State Highway Engineer R. H. Baldock said Wednesday the pro ject would be a one-story 120 by 40 foot equipment storage build ing in ' the state highway shops area, which can be used for of fice space until a new state high way building is erected. Alternate bids for frame or concrete block construction are sought Among 14 other bids to be open ed j by the highway commission at the meeting will be one for con struction of a 100-foot reinforced concrete viaduct and paving and grading of approaches to the D river bridge at Oceanlake in Lin coln county. Salem Civic Players PES EXT LISTEN TO LEON" Sponsored by Salem Postal Clerks Aux. Friday, Oct 22nd, 8:15 pun. I A dm. 50c incL tax SALEM CIVIC THEATRE 155 S. Liberty St Tickets en Sale at Capital Drag and At the Door 4- "Comic Capers" t V. Transamerica Case Before Circuit Judge WASHINGTON, Oct 20 -JP)-Right of the courts to interfere with a federal reserve board trial of the huge Transamerica corpor ation oh banking monopoly charges was debated today before District Judge J. W. Morris. He indicated he will rule early next week. The FRB, which launched the case under the 1914 Clayton Anti trust act and would serve as judge and jury, said the court couldn't act unless the company should ap peal from a board ruling. Transamerica says the board should make its complaint clear er or be ordered by the court to call the whole thing off perman ently. That point was a Joint issue in the hour of argument by at torneys. The Board has accused Trans america, the world's biggest bank holding company, of violating the act through stock ownership in more than 600 banks and branch banks in California. Oregon. Wash ington, Arizona and Nevada. It is a civil action. The possible penalty is an order that the firm get rid of its stock in banks. Community Meeting Called First general meeting of resi dents in the Painters Woods and nearby districts north of Salem, concerning community problems, will be Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Hayden halt Filbert and Alder streets. Water supply, road and other problems of the area have previ ously been considered by commit tees of residents. The new hall is at the inter section of the fourth street north of the Salem fertilizer plant lead ing east from Cherry avenue, and the first north-south street Marines Move Meeting Night Change of drill nights from Wednesday to Monday effective in November was announced Wed nesday night by the Salem ma rine corp reserve unit The group will meet on Wednesday next week, but will shift to Monday nights thereafter. Gary Gene Radke, Salem, was enlisted in the unit at the Wednes day night meeting as a private. Drill schedule Wednesday night included instructions on the 105 howitzer, communications and 30 calibre machine gun. S lYOJUD? fonmosr yeoucm ACCORDIONIST Leslie Jr. High School 8:15 F3L Printed by Willsey Husic Siudio Tickets at Heiders - Salem Record Shop or Ph. 3-7186 m 'SALLY fej m SAVER' H Today- - Friday S?! Is&Ha and Saturday Only! fcybvd 1 GLOVES I Values to 1.98 ) jjjjc Comor Court & Llborty Phone Profit Debate Subject At Hearing Whether a 7 per cent net return is required for sound operation of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. in Oregon was disputed Wed nesday during cross examination of a witness appearing at the state public utilities hearing on behalf of the telephone company ap plication for rate increases ag gregating over $4,000,000 annual ly- Dr. Herbert Dorau, economics professor at New York university, was cross examined all day by Rex Kimmell, deputy attorney gener al, and Marian Rushing, deputy Portland city attorney. It was the second day of the resumed rate increase hearing, conducted in the Salem Chamber of Commerce hall. Dorau maintained the telephone company needs a 7 per cent net return to attract working capital and to provide adequate telephone service. In response to questioning by Kimmell, Dr. Dorau denied that a 7 per cent net return would en able, under present economic con ditions, the company to pay its largest dividend on common stock in its history. Both Kimmell and Miss Rush ing indicated they felt a lower re turn than 7 per cent would suf fice. Teasing Turns into Gunplay HOOD RIVER, Oct 20.-JPhA childish teasing erupted into a gun battle between three small boys and left a 7-year-old seri ously wounded and two others in police custody today. William Dee Curlin, 7, was shot in the stomach. His 9-year-old brother, Melvin and David Min ner, 13, were taken into police custody. Sheriff R. L. Gillmouthe quoted young David as saying he shot after the elder Curlin boy fired at him. The sheriff said the quarrel yesterday began when the Curlin brothers teased M inner as they walked home from school. The dispute grew into a fist fight, rock-throwing, and - - even tually threats with a gun. Rainier Lone PUD on Ballot Only one people's utility district proposal, involving the city of Rainier, will be on the ballot at the November election, Charles E. Stricklin, secretary of the state hydroelectric commission, an nounced here Wednesday. Estimated population of the pro posed district is 1300 with an as sessed property valuation of $623, 570. The district, if approved, would use Bonneville power. Dance Saturday Glenwood Ocl. 26 fStitck in Time9 Saves House ! PORTLAND. Oct 20 -Jfh- Joe Gaudio got pretty tired of all those cars crashing into his house. Gaudio's house, propped ; on stilts over a 20-foot embankment lies at the end of steeply-inclined Water avenue. Automobiles for years kept hurtling out of control off the avenue into his front door. The last time it happened Gau dio bought six lengths of railroad track and sank them 10 feet into the ground to make a fence. Today a truck loaded with act ap steel overturned in front of Cau- dio's place, and 15 tons of scrap crashed down. But the improvised xence rails held. , "They're all that kept my place from being swept down the bank," said Gaudio happily. Detroit Slash Fire Brought Under Control DETROIT. Oct. 20 A slash fire which flared out of control on Blowout creek south of De troit Tuesday was brought under control earlv Wednesday hv for est service crews and area log gers. The blaze burning about 50,000 feet of felled timber started when a crew from the ranger station was burning slash near the timber. Hunter Cleared of Blame For Shooting Boy in Tree COQUILLE. Oct. 20-6P)-Lawr- ence W. Simmons, Myrtle Point rancher who shot 15-year-old Arthur Cotter out of an apple tree in the belief the lad was a bear, was cleared of blame to day. A grand jury refused to In dict Simmons on an involuntary manslaughter charge. ITALIAN GENERAL DIES ROME, Oct. 20-;P)-GeneraI of the Army Gaetano Zoppi, 98, Italy's oldest general, died today. He was the hero of the Italian stand at the Piave river after the disastrous defeat at Caporetto in the first world war. New Showing - Open :45 THRILLING CO-FEATURE "MR. RECKLESS" William Erthe Barbara Britton And! Color Cartoon Warner News with i : i ! she in 3srnR JlNvlTO'JL-lili-MUI .. Salem Electric pay all the taxes imposed on It by present laws and will pay all taxes Imposed In the future. The people, through their elected representatives, set the rates of taxation and the kinds of taxes. Salem Electric considers this . a! lust systenvHAS NOT AND WILL NOT ATTEMPT TO INFLUENCE THE STATE. COUNTY. OR CITY TO GIVE SALEM ELECTRIC ANY TAX ADVANTAGE. ! The Portland General Electric Co. spent $3000 of thi money nn Halinlf of thm iaIm i imr which ytram doslamod ta burden rrHnrA in rvnr. S3480 ta : on $5733 more was spent I at at the expense oi tne common ft kwh. Salem Electric Regular : (Within Salem & W.Salem 1.00 PGZ Regular Rate. US PGE Special Rate. (Salem Only) U7 M. AJr. by Elmer Amundson, Salem attor ney and candidate for the city Council, gave members of the Hollywood Lions club an explana tion of the commission form of government Wednesday at the reg ular meeting of the grange J I He said reason why the city manager form of government was hot 100 per cent efficient Was the manner in which authority was vesica in ine manager, ana added that so-called savings reported by the present form did not reveal the true picture. ! Amundson voiced objections to the present handling of funds col lected from parkiag meters. He Said purpose of the meters was to raise money for traffic control -; lights, lane marking and (police personnel but that the money was going into the general fund instead. j German Reds Handed Gun BERLIN. Oct 20 -UP- Guns were being handed out to Mos cow-trained police throughout the Eastern rone today and antl-com- munists said red rebellion n Ko rea should be a warning to Ger many, j ; "Korea offers a parallel o what would happen in Germany j if the Western powers should accept Russia's proposal that all occupy ing forces withdraw from! Ger many," said Franz TauschJ chief editor of the newspaper Sozial demokrat, when asked for his opinion of the situation ! The - Russian - licensed j news agency ADM said ceremonies throughout the Eastern zone marked the issuance of arms to these noliee units. I Unconfirmed estimates placed the police force as high as 400,000 men. i RIGHT NOW! JJ -V. From Texas DOOOTHV MAlONE WIIMTUI-IUIMTTUfl! wT$t VMMHm .iiimiwi imihiiu .ttPV" I MIM1 IKIM, W S And I Wm. Gargan In "Waterfront at Midnight" Doors Open at 1:45 p.m. NEW TODAY! i i jSo Wonderfully Wonderful Should Happen to YOU! Lucky Mr. Peabody- I Everybody : Thought : He Wag Dreaming! ! Tmly the I Season' Meat ! i Deligbtfsd Treat!! With Irene Herveyi Andrea King Clinton Snndberg Lawyer Supports Commission Plan In Club Speech LI I j 2ND ACE HIT ! "Secret Service Invesitgator" Lloyd Bridges - Lynne Roberts ELECTRIC Oil on the other hand orrrrmlirrtlon to keen down their the State Legislature to Improve man. : Residential Rate tot kwh. 9J00 1.67 tt kwh. 75t kwh. KWD. 14.70 40 6.0S. 5.77 1 1 Same Bear! ef Directors. Salese Eleetrle. school Group Takes Stand On legislation Discussion of a legislative com mittee renort received the bulk of attention by Oreeon countr school superintendents at their annual conference in Salem Wednesday. There! was no opposition! to a proposal urging additional state aid ior capital outlay projects, involving schools, and making per manent the appointment of a state school building consultant j Provisions allowing cnuntv mn. erintendents to select clerks of all school districts except f first class lor financial matters was also ap proved. The salary along with em ployment of a special stenograph er also 'was included in the Dro- Posal. 1 ... .;' i I ; Also proposed was enactment of law 'reauirine traffic to halt when a school bus was loading or unloading. It was brought out in the discussion that several chil dren have been killed in recent years by automobiles passing standing buses at hish rates of speed. I III Enactment of a law; providing that tho talarv nf tfA vnn --" J v. . V. LUUIll school superintendent pe hot less than the salary in 1948 wa4 pro posed by the committee. ! The (superintendents;! went on record at the conference as vigor ously opposing the "drink-bv-the- glass" measure to appear on the November election ballot. I Now Showing! Loaf Tim Tonltol Don DeforeJ Ann Harding IT HAPPENED ON 5TII AVE." Billy HaJop I 1 "DANGEROUS YEARS" 1 ! Color Cartoon Late News j - wjaawMaiHMM. Mat. Daily from 1 p.m. I ii LJ ! NOW SHOWING! j .. JEAIIE CIAII - WILLIly IIIBEI i tiini irrn ceoacc seaton h ; j Co-Hit! (Pu ARGYLJB SECRETS" Open :45 pJn. NOW SHOWING!; ! i-iteTcr- NOW! Opens C:4S pJn. sat M1LLAN0 szi Chaius LAUGHTON i. "'HI Co-Hit! Ed. G. SoblnRson "Slight Caao of Mnrder" TAXES received from power htDe the man who Can least own DrODertT taxes. And their own selfish lata Interests Commercial Rate 150t kwh. lOOt kwh. 12 KWD. i It KWD. 18.30 I 57.00 2U7 i eo.37 as abore (See schedule 32) Dr. O. A. Olson. II mm 1 , i W Co-Hit! I I ! mm
