14 Tha Statesman, Salem. Oregon, Thundery, Tcmuary S ' 1850
s neiuresiauun r ro leci
To Hit Stride in Current Year
FORESTER PROMOTED 1 i
PORTLAND, Jan. 4 -CP)- The
r TJ1 S. forest service today promoted
Merle S. Lowden, supervisor of
the Fremont national forest, to the
post of assistant regional forester
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Bull Market
At New Peak;
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Gains General
A gigantic 15-year, $10,500,000. reforestation project will get into
full swing this year under the direction of the state forestry depart
ment. State Forester George Spaur said this week, t I
The state board of forestry owns approximately 655,000 acres
of forest land, of which about one-third is in need of immediate
rehabilitation. Some burned over areas are restocking through natur
ae means out lire corridors ana
protection facilities must be ex
panded to insure the future of the
young, forest crop, said Spaur. j
The new program was launched
. last July 18 at Owl Camp in the
Tillamook burn . area when Gov.
Douglas McKay and forestry board
i g n e d the - bond. - authorization
-which launched thebiggest arti
ficial reforestationproject in the
nation." ,j
Spaur said that Oregon "has al
ways been a trail-breaker in adopt
ing modern forestry legislation."
A modernized forest protection
code, combined with the conser
vation efforts of Charles Sprague
of Salem, former governor, and
the late Gov. Earl Snell, place this
state above all others in forest
protection. '
, After three disastrous fires
the Tillamook burn the state vot
ers decried to rehabilitate the area.
The job was started last year, j
I A forest research program, made
possible by a timber tax law in
1947, has guided the rehabilitation
efforts. Sixty per cent of the funds
from this tax are turned over to
the forest products laboratory at
Corvallis for research In using
waste from logging and wood man
ufacturing. -
The-remaining 40 per cent is us
ed by the forestry board for prac
tical research in reforestation tech
niques. . ?.iL,-t' it t
Most of the effort so far has been
devoted to the Tillamook burn but
will spread to all forest lands of
the state, Spaur said. In the Tilla
mook area the work includes re
forestation by seed planting, build
ing snag-free corridors and in
creasing fire protection t facilities
by adding additional lookouts, mo
bile equipment and emergency
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NEW YORK, Jan. 4 -JPf Wall
Street's bull market hit a new
peak today.
In one of the strongest-forward
thrusts of the past year, the price
level rose to a high since August,
1946. The market has been ad
vancing without serious interrup
tion since mid-June.
Leading issues gained a few
cents to around $2 a share.
The rise coincided with Presi
dent Truman's state of the union
message to congress. It was de
batable, though, how much di
rect affect the president's legis
lative proposals had on the price
trend.' J
Trading activity expanded
quickly as prices moved up. Turn
over piled up to 1,890,000 shares
from 1,260,000 yesterday.
The Associated Press average of
60 stocks jumped J) of one point
to 72.6. The average thus broke
through the 1948-49 peak and
reached its top mark since Aug
ust 26, 1946.
The rail component made the
best showing, followed by the in
dustrials and utilities.!
A total of 1,117 issues changed
hands, of which 778 advanced and
156 declined. New highs for 1949
50 or longer were established by
92 stocks while 3 touched lows for
the past year.
TO SEEK SENATE POST
MEDFORD, Jan. 4 -CP- State
Rep. Ben Day, 38-year-old Gold
Hill rancher who has served one
term in the state's lower house, an
nounced today that he would be a
candidate for the state senate this
year. He is a republican.
Salem School
News
By
Gilbert
Ba tenon
Schxtl
Corrwpondtnt,
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PARRISn JUNIOR HIGH
In preparation for the junior
high basketball i jamboree to be
held Saturday, the Parrish pep
club will meet at 8:45 Thursday
morning. i . !"
Students at Parrish will warm
up for the jamboree at a pep ral
ly at 3:20 p.m. Friday. Song queens
Sally Grieg, Margaret Barge, Joan
Seamster and, Sharon Campbell
will lead the yells.'
GRANT SCHOOL
New school officers and student
council members will be elected at
Grant Thursday.!
Grain Futures
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Stimulated by-
Export
Report
CHICAGO, Dec. 4 -(AV Grain
futures were firm throughout the
session today on buying stimulat
ed by export reports, light re
ceipts and colder weather.
Wheat closed! 1 to 1H cents
higher, corn 1 to IVt up, oats IV
to 2V ahead, rye 4 to 5 cents
higher, soybeans 1 to 3 cents
higher, and lard up 9 to 28 cents
a hundred pounds.
Flour mill interests were re
ported to have Isold 200,000 hun
dred pound sacks, half to the gov
ernment and half to France for
shipment to French colonies. Ire
land bought 320,000 bushels of
U.S. corn for! shipment from
Baltimore. Holland bought be
tween 500,000 and 600,000 bushels
of VS. oats. .
The government weekly wea
ther and crop summary said rath
er widespread precipitation dur
ing the week was favorable for
small grains, but the amounts
were too light to relieve the dry
condition of the top soil in most
of the western portion of the
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State Office Staffs Prepare
For Moves to New Building
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! By Conrad G. Pranre
! Staff Writer. The Statesman
A number of state offices are already getting ready to move into
the new state office building, befhg constructed just north of the state
capitol group. , j
j Assistant Secretary1 of State William Healy said Wednesday that
the new building would be ready about March 1. He said that all
available space for state offices was being used and that the new
building is badly needed.
Occupants of the new building
will include:
.'Unemployment compen s a 1 1 o n
commission, now housed in the Sa
lem school office building. When
thje 230 UCC employes move out
the entire space will be occupied
by the Marion county offices. The
county offices will vacate the pres
ent courthouse when it is being
torn down nexf summer and a new
one constructed.
State police, now occupying
buildings on East State street.
Healy said these offices were ori
ginally used as state legislature
committee rooms and would revert
to. this use.
State board of control which now
occupies rooms on the main floor
of the state capital building. The
vacated space will then be taken
over by the budget director whose
present office will be occupied by.
the accounting division of the sec
retary of state's staff. !
The public utilities commission,
now in offices at 460 N. Commer
cial st., owned by Valley Motor Co.
William Phillips, of the company,
said no decision had been reached
yet on what to do with the one
story building, when the ' PUC
leaves. j . ,
Industrial accident commission,
now in the state office building on
Court street. This vacated space
will be occupied by the state tax
Commission, part of which is in a
building on the state forestry de
partment grounds.
State civil service commission,
now renting five rooms in an office
building at 444 Center st Repre
sentatives of R. L. FJfstrom, own
er, said Wednesday that a new ren
ter for the space had not Jbeen de
cided yet. ;
LESS JOBS
1 DENVER (INS) Employment
in Colorado for 1949 ; reached a
peak of 388,000 last month, a drop
of 10,000 under the 1948 peak.
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great plains and central
southern California.
and
George Putnam,
Former Salem
Resident, Dies
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TRONA, Calif., Jan. 4
George Palmer Putnam, former
Salem resident who was a pub
lisher, explorer and author and
was husband of aviatrix Amelia
Earhart when she vanished in
1937, died today. He was 62.
Putnam recently has operated
the Stove Pipe Wells resort in
Death Valley. He had been ill for
four weeks with uremic poison
ing and internal hemorrhages.
He was married four Jtimes,
twice since Miss Earhart was de
clared legally dead in 1939.
Putnam as an explorer visited
mos! of the earth's out of the way
places. He made several expedi
tions with Adm. Richard E. Byrd
and Roy Chapman Andrews. He
was a mountain climber of
achievement.
Born in Rye, N.Y Sept. 7, 1887,
and educated at Harvard and the
University of California, Putnam
was associated with his family's
New York publishing house, G. P.
Putnam's Sons, but went to Ore
gon in 1910 in newspaper and
publicity work.
I He became publisher-editor of
the Bend, Ore., Bulletin and serv
ed two terms as mayor of Bend,
in 1912-13. He was an army lieu
tenant in the first world war and
from 1919 to 1930 was president
of the Knickerbocker Press and
Treasurer of Putnam's in New
York.
Today the body was sent to Los
Angeles. Private funeral services
are being arranged for Friday at
2 pjn. with cremation to follow.
George Palmer Putnam, who
Publication
Of New York
Sun Ceased
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 -iJPy. The
New York Sun, famous 116-year-old
newspaper, ceased publica
tion today. It was sold to an after
noon rival, the World-Telegram.
pRoy Howard, editor and presi
dent of the New York World-
Telegram and president of the
Scripps-Howard newspapers, an
nounced that beginning tomorrow
his newspaper would be known
as The World-Telegram and The
Sun."
The transaction was regarded as
the most important move in the
New York newspaper field since
the merger of The World and The
Telegram in 1931.
The Sun has a circulation of
around 300,000 daily. The World
Telegram's is approximately 385,
000. "Mounting eosts of production
were blamed by Thomas W. De
wart, president and publisher of
The Sun, for the sale of the news
paper. In a front page statement
Dewart said "chief among the ris
ing costs have been those of labor
and newsprint."
Sale of The Sun leaves Man
hattan with only three afternoon
newspapers of general circula
tion The New York Post, the
Journal American and The New
York World-Telegram and The
Sun.
Hardly any j employes knew of
the sale until he notice was plac
ed on the bulletin board at 8:15
A.M.
Tears streamed down the face
ot a woman editor of 20 years'
service as ' she cleaned out her
died Wednesday in 'California,
was a resident of Salem several
years when he was private secre
tary to Gov. James Withycomb
about 35 years ago.
At the time Putnam was pub
lishesfeof the weekly Bend Bulletin
which he made into a daily paper
after leaving the governor's of
fice. - While in Salem, Putnam was a
member of old company M of the
National Guard and served with
that organization on the Mexican
border in 1916.
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Lebanon Boy
Faces Bogus j
Check Charge
. LEBANON, Jan. 4 -(P)4 A 16-year-old
Lebanon boy was taken
to the Linn county jail at Albany
today, after police checking a
routine accident . became suspic
ious of the boy s blank check
book. Chief of Police Cliff Price said
the boy admitted cashing bad
Checks during the last six months,
signing the names of two promi
nent Lebanon men.
The police chief Identified the
boy as Louis Theodore Hirschi,
great-nephew of Clarence Boggle,
the convict who was released
from Washington state peniten
tiary only to die here short
time afterward. Hirschi lived here
with Ms grandmather, I Mabel
Smith, Boggie'a sister. '
Hirschi was slightly injured in
an automobile accident yesterday.
Police, questioning him in the
hospital about the wreck; noticed
a blank checkhnnlr
suspicious.
The police chief said the boy
queried, signed a confession ad
mitting forging numerous checks'
ranging from $3 to $33.75, and
also stealing small articles from
Lebanon and Sweet Home stores.
The checks bore the forged sig
natures of Ray Downey, a ' re
tired Lebanon businessman, and
G. B. Wise. KtinrinfATi4A w
West Gate Lumber - company.
HUGE MAEKET -
PHILADELPHIA -(INS)- Al
most every Saturday, some 40,000
Pennsylvanians swarm to a "bar
gain basement" In Quakertown,
Pa, to eat hot. dogs, watermelon
r what have you and spend
$250,000. It takes place at the
Quakertown, Sales Company's
market. , f -.
GOLDIE'S DRESS SHOP
CLEARANCE SALE
Every T i
item in fS gjf , DrM"
Marled OOWn
down. Som ; ygr?y
i rljr t i r Sw 1 . .. Skirts
as much ' r2r (ffrfwr '
M- Mill ft?? ' 7 Wear
Ml: W ' L tea. MaaMl
SALE ENDS JAN. 7
Soldies Press?
In th Keizer District
Phone 2-3049
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Out-of-thls-world linen closet values at down-to-earth prices!
BULK BUYERS NOTICE!
Hotolsl ScKooIsI Instifutlonsl Bearding
House and all bulk buyart of whito
goods. Contact Soaris for the so low prices
n during our Whitt Ooods Salej.
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Here's tale with your budget in mindl Imagine sturdy
bleached muslin sheets at this low price I Compare the soft,
fine finishl Inspect the balanced close weave ... aver
age thread count of 140 threads to take hard wear and re
peated laundering.! Check the strong, taped selvages, even
hems during Sears January White Goods Sale.
Reg. 1.79 Muslin Sheets
11x99 Inch .. . ., : 1.67
Finest quality bleached muslin sheets; strong, closely wov
en, long wearing. Sturdy taped selvages, even hems. Aver
age thread count 132 per sq. inch.
35c
mm
dob Sheets
Type 143
m
1x99 or 72x108
81x101 In. Sheet
V-Aj 42x36 In. Mlowcase
-I:m. plus
42x36 in. Pillowcase
Reinforced Sheets, 81x101
2.17
-Alt
2.09
Reinforced sheets have extra threads at points
of wear . . . center area and edges. Wide 3"
hems at both ends for longer wear. Sheets
are torn 2" longer than standard.
42x36 Pillowcase
Regularly 59c yd. Nov only
Yards of snowy whites. ; .
Now reduced for clearance. 'O ) j
Buyeariy- )
Supply limited - Yd. -f "
Out they gol Hundreds of yards of fipe, soft Fairloom
'white cottons L . . all at one low price. Select fabrics
for dresses, blouses, men's shirts, children's wear. Be
thrifty, shop now for spring and sumrnerl
OTHER JANUARY BARGAINS!
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Real bathing "beauties' of thick thirsty cotton terry. Bright rope
porned design. Full 22x44 In. size.
Reg. 39c matching faeo towels
Matching .Wash cloths
35i
15
Shop 'til 9:00 p. m. Every Friday
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Reversiblel pattern! Thick cot- now i.e
ton: terrTi 22x44 in. Tlve Extra thick cotton terry with
colors - , ; 1 fr fancy scroll border. 24x46 in.
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Hand towel
Five colors
496 Hand towel
254 Wash cloth .
Wash cloth: . 1
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-1.59
Soft Sheet Dlankt
Ideal Cover for AH Seasons
70 x 90-ln. Hz... 155
Soft Mattress Pad
Whito Goods Solo Savings
29x76-ln. Twin 3.49
Alt
TnTiL SH, m iWifctoo. WsAalls.
rerfects. :.. M M l-i::;."ijr-! ' '-
Chenille Dath Set
At White Goods Sale Savings
2-Piece Set 0,3t
, IS a 32- at n ft w0-
m
550 II. Capitol St. Ph. 3-9191 - Plenty of Frco Parfdng
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