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. Croryn. professor
of agriculture at Amity high
school, will take his stock judging
team to the Tillamook county fair
Monday. Bob Watts, Jim McCaf
ferty and William Jones are top
men in the team.
Cronin plans to use other mem
bers in this event and also at the
Gresham fair August 24.
The Amity FFA chapter is pre
paring entries for the Yamhill
2 Men Added !
To AFL Board
PORTLAND, Aug. 20-4 -Clifford
Roberts. Oregon City, and TV
J. Cruickshank, Coos Bay, joined
the state federation of labor exe
cutive board Thursday.
They were the only two new
comers elected to the board in
the state AFL referendum. Some
8,000 union members In Oregort
voted.
The Salem member of the exe
cutive board F. J. A. Boehlnf
was reelected.
county FFA and 4 H fair slated
August 24, 25 and 26.
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