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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 1, 1949)
Equipment Added At Salem Picnic Resort - 7, W Paradise Island Features ,1 , S "'." ,-rX i J u3 IV.'. ,." ' " It 4 3 " f TTT u it ' I ' r v f "if . - i ;. I , .. i . 'J - i iTiif'i'iiftr'flo'T ri"An"'f'fiii rmnrr uniifii'milnnnTfi- m imr-f 'f mitrn,J- New Seattle Man to Build House At Hiroshima Svimming Pool, Bathhouses Onm of -Salem's older picnic and playground areas will have new appeal to holiday crowds or persons wishing a cool picnic supper after a hot summer day. Paradise Island, lone a favorite family recreation spot, has had mmnlete far liftim? this SDrin under the new ownership of Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Nation. h Located on the Turner road just : beyond the Salem airport. Paradise i Island has been cleaned up with brush erubbed out, hundred of flowers set out in beds bordering the park and on small islands in the picnic area. One island is set in begonias and a, parking area is bordered with more than 1,000 stalk plants. Of special interest is a new swimming pool which has been completed with a diving board and turfed bank for sunbathing. The pool is out of the swift current of the .mill stream. New bathhouses feature clean, airy dressing rooms and modern lavatory facilities. Play equipment for children in clude new teeter-totters, a soft ball diamond and slides. A' sand box will be added later. For a- dults there are new picnic tables and stone fire pits, and a 20 by 50 foot concrete dance area with a music box. - ' Altogether there are eight to ten acres in the picnic area and more than $3,000 has been spent in im provements... The Nations bought Paradise Island farm last fall when they came to Salem from Phoenix, Ariz., and intend to continue deve lopment of the park. The vast majority of deaths from tuberculosis among white, male Americans are among men aged 35 to 64. SEATTLE, June S0-CAP-His daughter created a sensation when she married a Japanese during the war and later made Floyd w Schmoe the grandfather of twin daughters. , "And from the time the first bomb fell on Hiroshima, I had the feeling I owed at least one house to Japan," the 54-year-old Schmoe sait'. today. So on July 17 he and three other Americans are sailing from San Francisco aboard the. General Gor don to fulfill Schmoe's resolve "a house for Hiroshima." Schmoe started the project and raised $4,000. We're donating our own time. We are shipping nails, wiring, glass and roofing and plumbing materials from Seattle and will get lumber in Hiroshima. Well use Japanese carpenters." Minister Doe Also Accompanying him will be the Rev. Emory Andrews, associate pastor of the Japanese Baptist church here; Mis Daisy Tibbs, home economics teacher at South Carolina's Harbison college, and Miss Ruth Jenkins of the Univer sity of Arizona, a relief worker in Germany last year with the Am erican friends service committee. The "Hiroshima House" will be child care : clinic Schmoe and the Reverend Andrews will super vise construction. Bliss Tibbs and Miss Jenkins will set up a gen eral public health and social wel fare program to be carried out. by licensed agencies for relief in Asia (Lara), the occupation government organization.: Washing-tan U. Gradaate Schmoe was graduated from the University of Washington and taught there 15 years, and is a former secretary of the northwest branch of the American friends service committee. His daughter, Esther, married Gordon K. Hirabayashl. a Jap anese, during the war. She had twin daughters while Hirabayashl was serving a year at McNeil Is land federal prison for failure to report to a conscientious objector's camp. He later was pardoned Valley Obituaries Veronica Hef fart ' . SILVERTON, June SO Fun eral services for Veronica Hoffart of Silverton who died Wednesday will be held at 10 ajn Saturday at St Paul Catholic church with interment in Silverton Catholic cemetery. Ekman'i funeral home is in charge of arrangements. Oscar Petersen SILVERTON, June SO Oscar Peterson, 78, longtime resident of the Marquanf community near here died in Portland today. Sur viving is a sister, Anna Weeks. Funeral services will be held at I D.m.. Saturday at l!kman,'s Mem orial chaDel with interment at Miller cemetery here. New facilities of Paradise Island picnic area include an outdoor dancing pavilllon, top photo: new swim ming poel. center; and new dressing rooms, bottom. More than $3,009 has been spent in improve ments to the area this sariag by new owners Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Nation. (Statesman photo.) are investigation of mob violence. The Rev. H. Frank Ledford, of Ashland, and the Rev. Luther Brown of Miperville, said they are acts of night riders they verified these Ministers Find Evidence of 3 Floggings ASHLAND, Ala., June 30 -(P-Three floggings were uncovered In this rural county today bf two fcthodist ministers making a pri-j Willi was quoted by the ministers investigating rumors of" additional cross burnings had been reported beatings and They; said floggings:' 1. J.i J. Gavens, 60, white herb doctor,': lured from his home to treat sick woman' the night of May 30 .and beaten with a black jack. Hi's wife exchanged shots with the unmasked assailants. 2. Willie Horton, 33, negro in fantry ' veteran, and ' his brother, Herschel, beaten and lashed until they bled by white robed and hooded men the night of June 1. in recent weeks, ine jenerson county (Birmingham) grand jury meets in special session there to morrow to investigate white-robed night riders. Ku Klux Klan officials, who de nied their members were involved in Jefferson and Walker county beatings, could not be reached for comment on the Clay county cases. as being told "ne naa oeen talk ing too much. " , . . . Ashland is in rural Clay coun ty 85 miles southeast of Birming ham,' where several floggings and While most of the world's jue is grown in Pakistan, it isasent to Calcutta in the other Indian 'do minion for processing. Mothers 20 to 24 years old have smaller chances of giving birth to stillborn children than those Of any other age. ta I Pirn f 5200 ' cvf Thtsa Tough Tracks Ar$ Enginscrd for Low Operating end Mamtensncs Costs twitt with staminofthot means long service, functional bodies iliminotentiectssory weiflhVcost less tn maintain. -Towered by th 'Jeep' Truck Engine, famovs . .. ... r I I tor inn rry perreiRiaiit ami rang -toomy, comfortable cab with vent-wing windows and wide-vision windshield. 1 18" wheelbase fives short turn radius. High-c!earanc fenders give easy access to wheels, help avoid dents. Big hood opens fender to fender. PHONE US FOR A DEMONSTRATION I 1 FOODS HEINZ BABY FOOD for i Bag If. TEA, F0LGERS, ORANGE PEKOE RITZ CRACKERS .. : PABLUM ' " JELLY 'i DOG FOOD, FRISKIES . SCOT or M.D. TOILET TISSUE WAX PAPER, Diamond Safety Edge KRAFT CARAMELS PARAFIII WAX for lb. Box .8 os. 23c -4M Of. 1 lb. Glass 2 1 can for ni ft 1 lb. Parkas 1 lb. 29c 29c 45c 19c 25c 23c 21c 37e 19c BEEF ROASTS PORK ROASTS SKINLESS WEINERS ... STANDARD SLICED BACON IB. LB. LB. LB. 53c 49c 55c 49c COOL FRESH PRODUCE I CANTELOPES Via ripened ORANGES Valencia, S freet and Jnlejr Fresh, Tender and Sweet . LETTUCE Nice Larre Heads PEPPERS Large Bell L i 5,39c 6 m 39c Each 5C ib. 25c PLENTY OF DELICIOUS RED RIPE MELON Complete Stock Fireworks Red Dvir$ Rockets Flash Salutes,! etc. Stand JOpen All Day July 4th gia'siatneato SaTam. Ore Trlckrr, faty 1; KilH 5 1 mm mm w STORES ! f SALEI1 U. SALEII It Mile North of the Underpass At the Foot of the-Bridge Shop Early For iho Fourth We Will Be Closed All Day Monday, July 4th Both Stores Open from 8a.m. to 10 p.m. BREAD IVj-pound loaf ICE CREAI1 3 quarts for 2ior0 BUTTER RoenbucL grodn A. Limit 1 lb. to each. Lb. POP 6 for Q)0 All flarors. Ylratnla Dare E-J Plus Bottle Deposit bat, (Qja 12-os. cans 3 lM W Rtrv th Right to Limit to DaUn . . t . ' TBY OUR WATEBIIEL0115 BE SAFE - WE GUABAllTEE THEM CAIITALOUPES Big Mac. Tine ripened Each I . i HEW SPUDS I 28c IOO lbs. .. . 275 A real buy 10 .lbs...... Local Cabbage 30 We Have a Wide Variety of Cherries and Berries for Canning EAT DEPfo m mm CEHOFS lb. This Is 4c Under Normal Wholesale Cost Buy Now . Drawn Weight Lb. This Is the Season for Fryert. These Are Fresh and Ready for the Frying Pan. Plenty for All.; j t-BOIIE STEMS Pound Each day our Customers -ask us fjow wf can sell those good steaks for 59c? Why don't you come and watch us! sell them, j ' ..' '"' - I- 1 ' " ,ond you buy' them. .':'. .' v " 1 Two Honey Saving tlarltets 1 Vi m Nortli ' At tie Foot ' of the Underpass of the Bridge ! SALEII U. SALSI WEI AT THE SOUTH CITY LIMITS 2345 So. Ccnl Mm Mm mi c Store Closed July 4th 2S2 NORTH HIGH '':