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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.?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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Enactment of a law; providing
that tho talarv nf tfA vnn
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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
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