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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1949)
Homecoming Costs f I4OO1 In Damages OAK HARBOR, Wash, Aur. 20 -WVChief Pettjr Officer Frederick Demjron of the UJS. navy lost con trol of his "1949 car on a curve shortly before midnight I t It leaped a concrete wall trashed into the porch of a house! ripped off one of its supporting columns and finally stopped after smashing another cement walL - - Unhurt, except for scratches, Demy on hammered on the door of the house. No one answered. Finally Police Chief George Mc- Gibbon pulled up in the town paddy wagon. 1 f "I'm trying to talk to the" people who live here about this," Demyon told the chief, "but no one an swers." i -That's aE right." replied Chief McGibbon "You can talk to me; I live here." Damage to the house was esti mated at $600; to the car at $300. July Orders j For Lumber Beat Output PORTLAND, Aug. 20 De mand for Douglas fir lumber dur ing July forced orders 25 million feet a week above production, ac cording to H. V. Simpson, execu tive vice president of West Coast Lumbermen'! association. He said there was a general strengthening of demand as mid-summer home and construction building hit its strides Orders for July averaged 149. 926.000 board feet weekly, Simp son stated, while production lag ged behind, due to vacations and shutdowns for repairs, averaging only 125,090.000 board feet a week. Shipments bettered production slightly, averaging 129,845,000 board feet weekly. Simpson said lumber orders for the first 30 weeks of 1949 totaled 4,688,554.000 board feet, topping total production Tor the same per ' lod as well as shipments. Produc tion through July was 4,583,144, 000 board feet and shipment am ounted to 4,657,371,000 boardfeet. Mills' stock dropped off another million during July to 931,009,000 board feet, and unfilled orders in creased 75,000,000 to 479,177,000 board feet which Simpson said was a reflection of present market demands. ,The weekly average of West Coast lumber production in July was 125.090,000 board feet of 83.6 per cent of the 1943-1948 average Thief Loots Store of $25 at Independence INDEPENDENCE Mill's Re 'par shop on South Main was rob bed of about $25 In small change Tuesday night when a rear win dow was forced open, stated Art Mills, owner of the shop. The robbery was discovered about 7:15 a.m. and fingerprints ' were taken. The thiof m, V, ..-..v. :-. In one pf the cars parked inside of TV. Ro QtllfllWI the garage and pryed the change llllilCtl .door open with what seemed to I Nbei heavy screwdriver. No checks Proposed abandonment of the are missing, only small change and Falls City junction to Black Rock some cigarettes. 1 schedule by Oregon Motor Stages YMCA Bike Ride Set for Next Saturday A bike hike Saturday for Salem YMCA boy under high school age will be one of the summer-climaxing events this year. Roth Holtz. boys" work; secretary, announced yesterday. The caraian will leave the YM at 9 a. m . bound for Eagle Crest, high in the Eola hills of Polk coun ty. Hikers are to bring their own lunches. Upon returning here they will be treated to a swim in the YM pool. I Assisting; Holtz in leadership will be Gkylord Weeks; Salem high school; senior. ' ? Stage Chanires Is one of the Items scheduled for a public utilities commission hear ing September 18 in Portland, the PUC announced Saturday. The company has requested two schedule additions in Washington county and several other abandon ments in northwest Oregon. Paper Tells of Priest Ousting Evil Spirits WASHINGTON. Aug. 20-rVA . 1 1 : -. 4k.t uainouc newspaper wi umi m prient has successfully freed a 14-year-old boy of reported posses sion by the devil. The boy, a resident of nearby Mount Rainier, Md., is said to have had a number of errie experiences early this year. His bed swayed. he was tipped out of a heavy chair and a blanket on which he was lying on the floor slid under a bed in unexplained fashion. His family said that he was pos sessed by an evil spirit and his case was referred to clergymen and various organizations, includ ing the Society for Parapsychology, which made a report on it last week. The Catholic Review, weekly newspaper of the archdiacese, carries the following additional account: A Catholic priest was called upon for help. When the boy ex pressed a desire to enter the church, with the consent of his parents, he received religious in struction. Later the priest bap tized him and then successfully performed the ritual of exorcism. The parents of the afflicted" boy are non-Catholics." The ritual of exorcism consists of the saying of mass, special prayers, psalm singing and the sprinkling of holy water. The ritual can only be employ ed with the permission of an arch bishop. Names of the priest and of the boy were withheld. ENTERTAIN GUESTS SWEGLE Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jayne have had as their guests the past two weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Merle Haskins and sons. Dale and Howard of Los Angeles, Calif. Mr. Jayncs's brother, Seth Jayne of Bakersfield. Calif., and Mr. and Mrs. John Balje of Madison, Neb. 6 of Truman's Reorganization Plans in Effect Issue of Seattle Airplane Plant Move Raises Defense Query SEATTLE, Aug. 20-JF-Civie leaders have launched a counter attack against any shift at Boeing Bomber production work from the company's Seattle plants to its Wichita, Kan., operations. A Chamber of Commerce committee brought its fire into the open after an air force spokesman discussed the possibility openly in Wash ington, D. C, for the first time. He described the Seattle oper ation as being considered "vulner able' because of its location on the great circle air route from Rus sian territory. His comments were in connection with a scheduled September flight to Seattle by Secretary of Air Sjrmingtoh and Air Force officers no discuss the proposed shift of ' sub-assembly work on the B-47 jet bomber. Nat S. Riders, president of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce and a member of the committee, is sued a statement for the cham ber: "Can i the Pacific northwest be defended against any possible en emy? If the answer is 'yes', then there is no impelling military nec essity for removal of any of our industries. "If the answer is 'no', then it is high time we know about it and that plans are made for the com plete and effective defense . . . "It is unthinkable these leaders charged with the responsibility of defending the nation would even infer that the Pacific northwest cannot be successfully defended. "Should the time ever come when this liability is either im plied or admitted, then it is time for a complete change of leader Br Max IUU WASHINGTON. Aug. 20 -(&)- Federal agencies got a mild re shuffling at midnight last night when six of President Truman's re organization plans went into effect. About 3,300 government employes are affected. Citizens at Saturday breakfast tables can chalk up the following things that had happened in their government overnight: t The U. S. employment service moved back into the labor depart ment. It was the fifth transfer; for the employment unit in 10 years. Labor department officials were jubilantly celebrating their new strength. (One party in the de partment this week reportedly last ed until 4 a.m.) Bureaus Revamped The post office department, civil service, commission, and maritime commission were revamped with the aim of greater efficiency. -In each case more, administrative power was centered in a single official , The $500,000,000-a-year bureau of public roads, headed by Thom as H. MacDonald, became a part of the commerce department, rarto ef Executive Office Two of -Dr. Truman's top ad visory boards, the national security resources board and the national security council, became parts of the executive office of the presi dent instead of independent agen cies. This had little apparent ef fect, except perhaps further to em phasize civilian, rather than mili tary control Of defense planning. The president made all these changes under the reorganization act of 1949. Their general purpose was to increase efficiency. Very little money was expected to be saved immediately, though the president has said major econo mies can follow in time. The plans automatically become effective now because 60 days have passed and neither house of con gress has vetoed them. Tha Statesman, Salem, Oregon. Sunday, August 21. 1949 iurkeyt ounts Quake Dead ERZURUM, Turkey, Aug. 20 (JPi It will be days before the final death toll will be known in the violent earthquake which rocked eastern Turkey Wednesday night The shock, believed to be the worst here in a quarter-century, affect ed an area extending from near the Syrian border to the Black Sea region. It has been officially announced that at least 50 persons died and more than 60 were injured in the three stricken provinces of Bingol, Erzincan and Erzururn alone. Other provinces known" to have been hit were Kars, Siirt, Mardin and Kiyarbakir. Comraun- cations in eastern Turkey are slow and it will take days to tally the final casualty list. . U.S. Population to Top 150,000,000 j WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 The population of the United States probably will rise above ' 150,000,000 before 1949 is out. Its rapid growth to that im- j. pressive figure has been noted k by Acting Census director Philip . M. Houser In a report showing that: The population was estimated: at 149. 21S. 000 on July 1. Its growth throughout this years has closely approximated 200.000; a month, indicating the 150,000.- 000 mark will be reached by No-; vember I. PICNIC WEDNESDAY Members of North Salem Kiwan is club and their families will haCVe a picnic Wednesday at 6 p. m. in Dallas city park. Phil R. Pitney is general chairman. The club's regular Monday luncheon also will be.. held, but the program has not been announced. Ohio has nearly one thousand cres under greenhouse glass which is more than any other state. Amity FFA Team To Judge Stock AMITY J. G. 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