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Y ,' 'tn ". --ait ' i ' The Still iixiii. Salem, Oregon, Sqturday Janoary I. 1949 Mayor Elf strom Reappoints 11 Board, Commission Members Eleven city board and commission members whose terms expired December 31 were reappointed Friday by Mayor Robert L. Elfstrom. Reassigned to the Salem planning and zoning commission were Irl McSherry and Mrs; G. F. LobdelL They will serve until 1953. Other members whose terms expire at various times are J. H. Davis, city engineer; Mayor Elfstrom; Chris Kowitx, city attorney; City Rescued Commander Flint Cmdn FKiit Rescued jAftet Ditching Plane SEATTLE, Dec. jii Sixteen hours in the Pacific with only a life, raft to sustain him, Lieut. Comdr. L. E. Fiintj son-in-law of Mrs. N. E. Noble of 1935 Virginia st, Salem, Ore., was rescued by the destroyer Fox in the wee hours of December 1 while his strength was last failing and a typhoon ap proached, the 13th, naval district' disclosed. The commander was dumped in-. teHhe water when he. was forced to Mitch his fighter plane. He and Mrs. Flint now reside at Coronado, Calif., where the com mander is stationed. .Mrs. Flint previously spent some time in Sa lens while her husband was at sea. Journal Staff Men Retire PORTLAND, Dec 11 -iJPh Two veteran editorial employes of the Oregon Journal retired today after reaching the age of 65. Jennings F. Sutor, who has work ed on the paper for 41 years, re tired as news editor. Sam Raddon exchange editor, retired after 25 years' service. The newspaper announced the following appointments to replace them: uavfci w. tyre will move up Irom assistant news editor to exe cutive editor. Fred H. McNeil, night editor, will become news editor, and W. L. Hunter, copy desk, will become night editor. TOMIT MUSIC BY 1 Pop Edv;ards' Old Time Modern - For Real Fun Go Boiler Skaiing Attend Our New Year's Day Matinee Skating from 2 to 4:30 ; to 10:30 CAPITOLA Roller Rink 90 Lana Are. ; Take Capiiola Bus . i . '-.v DANCE; am Salem Armory k t , f Manager J. L. Franzen; w. w. Rosebraugh; Robert - T.. Stanley: Hedda Swart, county engineer and president; R. A. Forkner; and Mil ton I. Meyers. i Five members of the city boxing commission all reappointed are Clifford Parker, Howard Maple, Dr. Ralph Purvine, Allan Carson and Lw H. Schnuelle. All will serve until January, 1950. . S Ralph Nohlgren was reappointed for a five-year term on the Salem housing authority.; Other members are Arthur Bates; W. J. Braun, Steve Anderson and Homer Smith, Jr.- ; ' I Three reappointments to the Sa lem public library board are D. W. Eyre, A. A. Lee and DriH. H. Olinger. .Others are Mrs. F. H. Spears, Charles HeltzeL .Mabel Robertson, Mrs. C A. Downs, Les ter Barr and Mrs. J. W. Harbison. Other board and commissions whose members ; will continue serving for various terms are: I Building code board of appeals G. R. Boatwright, L. P. Bartho lomew, and E. E. Batterman. 1 Civil service commission Rich ard Severin, Lyle Page and W. J. En tress. Flremens' pension board may or, city attorney, city recorder, city treasurer,- city' manager, fire chief and two members of fire de partment, now Ray McCauley and E. L. Smith. State Employes' crease Expires Today The $20 a month "cost of living" increase approved for all state workers by the state emergency? board and state board of control last May expires with the Decent ber payroll, state department of ficials announced Friday. Any future salary increase for state employes is now! up to the legislature. The so-called "cost of lining" increase Involved approx imately 5Z33.Z30 of emergency Doara funds. A number of self sus raining state departments paid the increase out of their own funds while others ba id the increase out or surplus monies. Officials said there is little pros peer ox tne legislature acting on permanent increase for at least nmn aiter it convenes nere Jan uary lo. It was suggested that the legislature authorize state depart ments to utilize money provided for regular salaries for the remain der of the current biennium in continuing the 20 a month increase and later reimburse them so money would be available for the future; The state civil service commis sion will offer a plan at. the leg islature boosting salaries of state workers to conform to those ..paid by private industry. This proposal would be based on classification oft workers rather than on across-J the-board plan. HIT-RUN VICTIM DIES PORTLAND, Dec 31 -0P- A woman tentatively Identified ' as Clara Boss, 72, Portland, was kill edj today by a motorist who fail ed, to stop after knocking her down at! an intersection. It was Port land's 55th traffic fatality of the year. . ; i - DAIICE I TOIUTE GLEIIT700D DALLDOOII it Adm. 1.00 inc. tax BIG illEW YEAR'S j VTW Hall fllood and .Church Sis. Tonile Favors -! Fun Wayne Stiaehan's Mosie Pay In i. 9 A Liberty Couple r LIBERTY Mr. and Mrs. M. D. wedding anniversary New Year's heme here. Vanport Flood Tops '48 List of 10 Biggest Oregon News Stories PORTLAND, Dec. 3MflVA year . i headlines-ior a major caiasiropne 1 .t midnight tonight. Oregon, normally not a big news papers from London to China this that destroyed Vanport, at a cost escuer Claims reenland Trip MereRoutirie NEW. YORK, Dec. 31-A)-The rescue of 12 fellow airmen from a desolate Greenland icecap- was described as a routine mission and one that involved little danger to day by Lt. Col. Emil Beaudry the man who did it. I The airman, who lives in South Hadley, Mass., arrived here with his co-pilot on the mercy flight and seven of the men they rescued. Piloting a ski and jet equipped 47 transport. Beaudry set his lane down on the . icy wasteland ast Tuesday, and 38 minutes later lad the stranded fliers safety- bound. Some of them had been there since Dec. 9. The soft-spoken officer said the landing itself was easy because the snow was packed hard. He added he never nad any doubts about the takeoff with his 25,000- pound load. The rescued men, seven, of whom were marooned when their C-47 crashed Dec. 9, were in good condition, Beaudry said. The five others were stranded during sub sequent rescue efforts that failed. State to Start Numbering Babies Today By th Associated Press Oregon will begin numbering babies today and No. 1 in the state will be the first born in Baker county. That's because Baker heads the alphabetical list of Oregon coun ties. It is over-simplification, though. to refer to little No. 1.. Actually the number will be 136-49-000001. The 1 is fori United States; 38 for Ore gon; 49 for the year;;Jand 000001, at las he baby's number. Dr. Harold Erickson, state health officer said time of day will have nothing to do with the number as signed. Numbers will be assigned to counties in alphabetical order. Then babies- within the counties will get numbers by alphabetical order according to the dates on which they are born. If more than one is born in Ba ker today, the alphabet will de termine which becomes little 136- 49-000001. IIET7 YEAB'S DnniEn Served Family Style $1.50 Has er Tvkey with all the trimmings. GOLD ARROW RESTAURANT 15s Fairgroutds EIGHT NOW I L-A; HATW0RTH FORD 2ND ACE HIT! COLOR CARTOON NEWS! Wed 65 Years i - s. ; . s. i Leabe whe will observe their 5th day with an open he use at their in which Oregon claimed national a Hi. . j ana . a major pouueu event enaea state, garnered banners An news year with the Columbia river flood of 14 lives and millions of dollars' damage. And only a. few weeks before that the state claimed national attention with the primary elec tion campaign that proved instru mental in giving Thomas . Dew ey the republican nomination for the presidency. The Columbia river flood was given a unanimous first place by Associated Press staff, writers and member editors in the annual vote for the "ten best Oregon news stories of the year. Dewey in Second Close behind the. flood came the primary campaign of Governer Dewey and Harold E. Stassen. It was Dewey's victory in the Ore gon - election that stamped out the Stassen upswing and helped turn tne republican convention in to a Dewey stampede. Oregon editors agreed almost to a man on those two top stories, but sput sharply on the next. Three stories drew a tie as the next most important of 1948. One was a tragedy. One a political fracas. The third was the Novem ber election, with the accompany ing pension bill muddle. Plane Tragedy The tragedy was the plane crash wnich killed four republican poli tical leaders in the same south western Oregon region where Governor Earl Snell and two aides crashed to their deaths year before. The crash took the lives of Ren. John Snellstrom, Rep. Earle John son, Senator-elect William Flueh- rer, and Rep. -elect H. W. Evans, as tney new home from a weekend political outing. : The other story which tied for third place was Governor John H. Hall s ouster of Joseph O. Freck from the State Liquor Control commission. f Lewer Half Those five stories, in the ooin- ion of editors, formed the tOD half Pi uregon's 10 biggest news events. Ranking next were the fol lowing: . ' . The crash of the bus which was carrying the Grants Pass hieh football team home from winning ine state championship. Two play ers-were sailed. 1. The Willamette river flood of last January.' o. Oregon s -growing pains' power shortage, housing shortage, population increase. 9. The University of Oreeon lootoati team's co-championship, losing light for the Rose Bowl, and eventual invitation to the Cot ton Bowl. 10. A tie between the national CIO convention, held .in Portland, ana W! state supreme court s rul tag that incor- tax surpluses could not be diverted into the gen eral fund. Drs Open 1:M P.' If. Fer HOLLYWOOD KIDS CLUB Program Prises 2 Carteens Serial Special Feature THE xHG SHOW with , Gene Aetry, Smiley Bernette AIm BENSON'S BIRTHDAY CAKE Tor Suzanne Youngqulst, Billy Ha zel. Jean . Robinson, Jeanne Robinson, Carol Ann Sundle, Susan Sandlin, Leroy Peeren boom, Richard AUendar. Ken neth Brown, Bruce ,Pe well, Lin da Scharback. Eve. Shew Cent. After 5 P. M. LAST TIMES TODAY! , Fred Astalre. Jndy Garland In TASTER PARADE" Plus DANGEROUS YEARS Starts Tomorrow Open 1:45 Second Featare "SHAGGY" A Dog Picture in Color Fire Department Closes Books For Year with Enviable Record By Lester F.; Conr Staff Writer. Tbs Statesman The Salem Fire department closed its 1948 books Friday with an enviable fire loss record for the year Computation of actual insured losses during the year are yet un totaled, but a glance at the records indicate the past year's figure will be far below the 1947 total of less than $500,000. Salem Fire Chief W. P. Roble attributed the improved 1948 record Saleih's UAL 'J Station Tops National List i Salem's United Air lines station led all 75 UAL stations, in percent- tage of passenger revenue increase Irom 1M7 to 1948, it was learned Friday, ! The past year was the heaviest"5 in air travel here since UAL began operations at McNary field in December, 1941, accordnig to Harold Sweeney, station man ager, j Approximately 25 per cent in crease was accounted for the transfer of all Portland airline operations to Salem during June and most of July, to escape the Columbia river flooding of the Portland airport. During the year, 33,084 passen gers emplaned and deplaned on UAL flights here Of these, 16,645 boarded or started their 'flight here, as compared to 3,794 in 1947, ah increase of 438 per cent. Tick et sales amounted to $290,000, compared to $187,000 in the pre vious year, a rise of 155 per cent. New records , were also estab lished by airmail, of which -115,-143 pounds were put aboard iri 1048 compared to 24,549 in 1947; air express, up from 9,041 to 74, 555 pounds; air freight, up from 50,939 to 125,949 pounds. s Also accomplished during 1948 was a UAL terminal approxi mately doubling the former one. It was built to accommodate the large increase of passengers, prin cipally during the flood emer gency. V. L. Seamster Dies; Funeral SetMonday Final rites will be held Monday at 1 plm. in the Howell-Edwards chapel for Virgil L. Seamster; Sa lem grocer, who died Friday at his residence on Portland road at the age of 60 years. Seamster was born in Joplin, Mo. May 23, 1888 and came to Salem in 1911. He was married to Edna Zeller in Sajem. A bus driver in Salem for 25 years, Seamster retired to operate a grocery store at Summer street and Fairgrounds road. Recently he has operated the Seamster Grocery at 379 High st. Seamster was a member of the First Baptist church of Salem and theJiollywood Lions club. Besides his widow, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Jack E. Lowe, Sacramento, Calif.; son, Forrest W. Seamster, Salem; sisters, Mrs. Min nie Fagg and Mrs. Leora Moo try, both of Salem, and Mrs. Edith Fite, Portland; brothers, Alonze Seam ster and Harley Seamster, both of Portland, . and Walter Seamster, Earl Seamster, Floyd Seamster, Ro bert Seamster, and f Hubert Seam ster, all of -Salem. Concluding services will be held in Belcrest Memorial park. GREEKS MAKE PROGRESS ATHENS. Dec. 31 UP- Mili tary and press reports said today the Greek army is making pro- ess against communist guerril las in the Peloponnesus region of southern Greece. HAPPY NEW YEAR! rrnn:i Coat, froi NOW SHOWING! U-WJ L nut's mMiil ifct&IE AND 7, OAOUCMO'CHCOMAAK 21 our c BJ-v aMBHHBBBBBBBBBBBsl tSaSsHBsSBBBBBBBBsKBB lIVTTTwTmv KARTOON KARNIYAL TODAY At 12:3 with Ker. Show! . Now Showing! Last Times Today! i , 1 Gary Cooper ,. In Technicolor' ;UNCONQUERED" Al Pearce -MAIN ST. WD" m to several factors an improved department, better cooperation from the public and the inescap able element of luck. City firemen are becoming bet ter firefighters by the day be cause of an intensive training program instituted by Roble in 1947, shortly after he took over as chief. Attend Dally Classes Firemen attend daily classes taught by specially trained in structors within the department. T'leir curriculum includes book work, visual instruction through training movies and actual fire drills.. Roble recently put into effect a 48 - week course which .includes four classes weekly on all types of fire fighting. Examinations are given each week on matter stud ied during the previous week to determine each man's progress. Drill Tower Needed With the advent of a new year Roble is looking forward to even more improvement in the depart ment. While several new pieces of equipment were added in 1948, Roble pointed out that the depart ment is still badly in need of a dill tower to give the firemen practice under conditions simulat ing actual fire problems. ' The proposed tower, similar to Lone now in use in Portland, would be about four stories high and would be equipped with a fire, es cape and a double row of windows. Such a structure would cost about $3,500, a sizable sum when the funds are 'apparently unavailable, the chief commented. The fire es cape for the tower has already been purchased. Te Add 17 Firemen Due to bolster the department's strength is the addition of 17 fire men to the department sometime after January 1. The added man power was made possible through O PHONE 3-3467 O MATINEE DAILY FROM 1 P. M O Prevne Tonile! (One Feature) O O AND STARTS TOMORROW! Two Greal Pictures To Siari ihe HappyvIIew Year! r-Tyv f -yi zees"" t i i V . W ... r : ; If '"jje- ' ' r' ."ni"'ri1' 'V'.' , . J. . ... . Mi jf M - frt-TIill Eokne men ore born te perfloui : 1 WWX.- adventure! as some women .11 -' ( am drawn to danaerous lovel . v ': - 'v; :;(;::(;; j j ai Lj n. Tl ) ! Aimail Fox Ihyiclone IIcwsl) v an initiative measure passed by the voters' in the November general election. . The measure will alee reduce the firemens working hours from 78 to 62 hours weekly and provide need ed help in case of a. major fire. While, addition of the men is au thorized effective January 1, the funds from the appiajved extra property levy will not be available unti. the next fiscal year starting July 1. Fire Inspections Made - Also contributing to Che fire loss reduction are improvements to some buildings considered previ ously as fire hazards. Regular fire inspections by the department have led to elimination of glaring lire traps.- - s At the same time, Roble saidf 9 0 - m. M fflU 1L Jill Extra! Technicolor , Masleal "GYPSY HOLIDAY" MGM Color Cartoon "THE CAT THAT 5sHATED PEOPLE" WARNER NEWS " ar s a a n i u on. . GREGORY i 0 fTtETCH etsniss... tfcsuss... hams L.'., '-,1 ANNE .;: '- TT bbtbb! ' " " , wo ha owir a aroun h-Z . .. - : ''"'tix-Vf'y" I .atwoMi ro fief wmm .fa , - Aimail Fox Ilovielbne Hews! there are still many buildings, ho tels, rooming house and residences in which fire dangers exist. Ab sence of fire doors, fire Walls, un- . protected, stair wells and defective wiring are a constant source of B worry to the fire department. , " "We're" .gradually getting these '. conditions Corrected," Roble said. "It will take a long time to edu-"' cate the 'people to protect', their property by taking proper fire pre cautions, bxil it is slowly being done." i .'. b i -j;--. "We Shave one of the best de-i -partments in i thecountfy for its size," Roble concluded. VQur men have learned team work arid co operation is essential in'! the time . of fires. This is one of the reasons we hope for a better year yet in 1949." I. V li . ' ' .4 .TYfT! J ...Mtn:.WMi in ni wow 9 r 1 1 Jim ) iv -l : CHNICOLORff T A JERRY WALD LTV UAI n W!' 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