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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.
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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. . ;
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Vanport Flood Tops '48 List of
10 Biggest Oregon News Stories
PORTLAND, Dec. 3MflVA year
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headlines-ior a major caiasiropne
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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