THE VALLEY NEWS COLUMNS
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From The Oregon Statesman's Valley Correspondents
Silverton,
Lacombe Men
Commended
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sit.VERTON - Harrison L
(Hal) Fisher of Silverton has been
commended xor nis action in ugnv
in a fire at Camo Carson. Colo,
where Fisher was participating in
. training Drozram with the Sa
lem Seabee reserve unit January
14 to 28. -Fisher.
: together with LL (ig)
Russell D. Barry of Lacombe, also
a member of the Salem unit, help
ed other : seabee reservists fight
the fire which destroyed $3,500,
000 worth of camp property and
eaiiinmefit. Lt Lacombe was
itH also.
The commendation came from
" ihi. rnmmandln officer of the
1 14th Infantry at the camp and by
; the commanding general oi ine
xiith army, ine commenaauon
3vi thf mpn "resnonded immed
iately and without regard to per
gonal saiety."
When the brush and grass fire
swept the camp eight lives were
lost and ; barracks, warenouses,
mess halls and equipment were
destroyed; Fisher said. Fisher op
erates a service station here.
Keizer Women
Meet Tuesday
SUttimaa News Scrvic
KEIZER The Woman's Mis
sionary society will meet for sew
ing and luncheon with Mrs. Ira
Turner on Tuesday, February 7,
at 10 ajn.
Guest speaker will be a mis
sionary recently returned from
Chile. She comes from the field
to which the Rev. and Mrs. David
Homm,. formerly of Keizer, have
been assigned. T
The ladies are asked to bring
old sheets, blankets, used greeting
cards and sewing articles. Mrs. i.
E. Sittser i will assist Mrs. ' Turner
with the serving.
Ha"rri Children
, Greet Birthday
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LABISH CENTER Darlene
and Danny Harris, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Harris, celebrated
their sixth birthday recently - by
entertaining -the Big Little - class
and the Busy ' Bee class at the
Labish Center community Sunday
school. !
Those attending Included Karen
Archer, Bonita, Jody and Patsy
Boies, Marilyn Hall, Karen' and
Kris Hornschuck, Donna and Dor
ene Isham, Loren and Nyles
Klampe, Betty Kurth, Pat Mc
Claughry, Donna Palmer, Fred
die Pugh' and Sandra and Dean
i Westling and the Harris children.
Mrs. Harris was assisted by Mrs.
Nathan Kurth and Mrs. Arlo Pugh.
" Court of Honor Feb. 8
SUttsmaa News Bervte
AMITY A court of honor,
scheduled for February 8 at the
high school gym, is planned by
Boy Scout troop" 291 in observ
ance of Scout Week beginning today."
ocuuui irom inciviinnviue, oner
ldan, Yamhill, Dayton, Willamina,
Newberg and Amity ; will partici-
pate In the court.
Valley
Obituaries
lUtttmu Ntwt Icrvlce
Birtlett Eyan
SILVERTON Bartlett Ryan,
94, a local resident for the past
several years, died Saturday night
In a Salem hospital. He had no
known relatives.
Funeral services will be held
here Tuesday at 4 p.m. at the
memorial, chapel of the Ekman
funeral home with the Rev. Arthur
Charles Bates officiating.
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FASHIONS FOR FUTURE Mrs. Lewis Ducrer,
af Atlanta. Gju. wears an "atomic bomb" hat and adjusts her
danrhter Sally's "TV" for party at the Brookhaven Country Club.
VaflDey Iews IBfieffs
Statesman News Service
Kelxer The Home Economics
dub with Mrs. W. O. Pound as
president will meet at the grange
hall here on February 8 at 2 pjn.
for quilting and sewing.
Silverton James W. Gingrich,
navy machinist's mate, third class,
of Silverton route 1, recently ar
rived in the Mediterranean area
aboard the USS E. G. Small with
fleet units which relieved ships
of the Sixth task fleet.
Amity Harry Ring, former
city znarshall of Amity, suffered
a stroke last week and is con
fined to his bed at home on South
Trade street.
Central Howell Perl Bye is
convalescing from the mumps and
Mrs. Maurice Hynes is the latest
victim of the illness.
Detroit George (Scotty)
Scott, who has been ill at his
home here for the past two weeks,
was taken to Portland last week
by Archie Matton. Scott will
remain in Portland until his
health improves.
Central Howell Mrs. Clarence
Herr, and infant daughter born
January z, came nome irom ou
verton hospital lasi we,ek. The
Herrs have two other children.
Detroit Ernie Smith returned
home last week from a one month
trip to Kansas and Iowa wnere
he visited relatives.
Central Howell Mrs. Clarence
Simmons, jr., and daughter, Jan
Marie born January Z8, nave re
turned home. The Simmons have
another daughter.
Detroit Mrs. R. E. Byrkit
left last week for Los Angeles,
Calif. While there she will meet
her brother and they will return
home to Minneapolis, Minn. Mrs.
Byrkit has been visiting here for
the past two weeKs with ner
mother-in-law, Mrs. Ed Byrkit
Central Howell The Nemo
club will meet Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. Henry
Rasmussen. Co-hostesses are Mrs.
Loren Gower and Mrs. Pete Dit
chen. A valentine exchange will
be made.
Anmsville Giving home sew
ing a professional look will he the
theme of the.Aumsville Women's
Extension club meeting Wednes
day, February 8, with Mrs. Joe
Nicholson. ' Mrs. Guy Smelser will
keep the children at the Marvin
Bradley home.
'Middle Grove Wayne Goode,
active 4-H member, recently re-
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PARISIAN CREATIO N Mme. Henri Bonnet, wlfo
f French Ambassador, wears lamnshades at rehearsal for Wash-
. Ingtoa aaatear. boor of American Ueart Assodatlon Feb. Z.
ceived word that he won second
place in the annual state corn
show held in Ontario.
Aamsville Mrs. Wayne Stev
enson of Portland and children
visited here last week at the home
of Mrs. Stevenson's sister, Mrs.
Don Gildow.
Hayesville The project lead
ers for the HayesVille Extension
Unit attending the preliminary
Better Dress Workshop at the
home of Eleanor Trindle last week
were Mrs. Russell Kelley, Mrs.
Walter Nystrom, and Mrs. Floyd
O. Weft.
Hayesville Mrs. Frank Barth,
route 7, box 376C will entertain
the Girl Scouts at her home Tues
day, February 7 at 7:30 pjn. Mrs.
Barth is the leader and the assist
ant leader is Mrs. R. L. Tuers.
The girls are making plans for
a bazaar to be held in March at
the schoolhouse. ,
Phosphate Film
Tonight, Keizer
Statesman Newt Service
KEIZER A 20-rainute techni
color 'movie of the story of phos
phate rock will be shown at the
Keizer . grange hall tonight at 8
o clock.
Marion County Agent Harry
Riches will show the picture. It
deals with development of per
manent soil improvements with
phosphate rock. The movie will
urge use of raw ground phosphate
as a fertilizer by Oregon farmers.
Jamison Fertilizer service, sup
pliers of raw phosphate, will give
away two 80-pound bags.
MRS. ASBOE TRAVELS
SILVERTON Mrs. Rnnald
Asboe of Silverton left by plane
Saturday night for Cleveland, O.,
to be with her mother, who is
critically ill.
Premium gasolines averaeed 88
octane rating in the summer of
1843. says the iU. S. bureau of
mines, compared with 86.1 in 1948.
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Youth Group
Organized by
Keizer Grange
Statetmam Newt Service
KEIZER The Keizer Grange
has organized a youth organiza
tion which meets at the grange
hall on the second Wednesday
eight of each month and at a des
ignated home on the fourth Wed
nesday. The grange calendar for Feb
ruary contains a soil movie to
night and a three-act comedy by
the civic players on February 10
at 8 p.m.
The youth group, led by Mrs. W.
E. Savage and Mrs. Kenneth O'
Connor, will have charge of the
social meeting on February 15.
Skits and a public style show will
be featured.
At the grange meeting last week
a discussion on the farm support
program as led by Fred McCall.
Support plans were presented by
Cliff Black, Burr Black and Ed
Rogers. A. L. Mason gave a read
ing and it was announced that
MrsA. B. Pederson, lecturer, will
attend the state lecturers' school
at Corvallis, February 9 and 10.
Construction
Figures Double
January of 1949
Northwest heavy construction
contracted during January more
than doubled the value for the
same month of . 1949, according
to Pacific Builder and Engineer
magazine of Seattle. Despite the
severest winter in the region's
records, construction rose from
$8,751,622 to $17,676,732.
Salem figures indicated a simi
lar trend, although the only heavy
construction slated locally was a
$300,000 apartment house on
North ' Summer street. Permits
totaled $405,894, about $150,000
higher than for January, 1949.
Garvers Take
Over Store
At Aumsville
Statesman News Service
AUMSVILLE Mr. and Mrs.
Calvin Garver have taken over
operation of Val's Grocery store
and Storage Lockers here from
former owners, Mr. and Mrs. Her
man Valencourt.
The Valencourts moved to Sa
lem last week where they will
reside at 395 N. 14th st. They built
their store here in April, 1947. The
Garvers assumed management
Saturday. They have three chil
dren in high school, Gene, Arleen
and Ardith.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernie Hanker re
cently returned from a train trip
to Canada, where they visited
friends and relatives.
Gerald Roberts, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Omar, Roberts, has returned
from a two-week naval reserve
The Statesman. Salem, Oregon, Monday. February 6.' 19503
cruise. He shipped out of San Di
ego, Calif.
The Aumsville high and grade
schools were open Tuesday and
part of Wednesday only of last
week, because of inability to heat
the buildings. " i
Baruch Asks Plan
For A-Conf rol Used
Also on H-Bomh
SPARTANBURG, S.C., Feb. 5
-iTVBernard M. Baruch said to
day his atomic control plan should
apply to the hydrogen bomb as
well as the atom bomb.
Baruch made the statement in
an interview during a week-end
visit with former Secretary of
State James F. Byrnes her.
The adviser to presidents has
asserted that no form of disarm
ament can be realized without a
system of international control
and punishment.
Man Carries Dead
Shark 3,250 Miles
--It's No Fish Story-
SIDNEY, Australia-flV W h e n
Ellis Troughton, curator of mam
mals at the Australian museum,
Sydney, saw a small shark dying
on the beach at Canton island.
Central Pacific, he brought the
shark 3,250 miles to Australia for
the museum's icthyologist to study.
He was returning by air from a
long vacation spent visiting na
tural history museums in Britain
and the United States.
When he arrived in Sydney
clutching the shark, roughly wrap
ped in newspaper and by this time
"slightly on the nose," officials at
the airport hastily decided to waive
customs formalities provided
Troughton hand the shark in to
the museum for Immediate pickling.
What are the facts about telephone jobs?
With all the news stories and comment about the telephone labor situation,
you may be wondering just what sort of deal telephone people really do luave.
Let's take a straight look at their jobs:
rag
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Averazt earnings off all employees in the following croups 44,000 people:
Switchboard Operating Employees
Business Office Representatives
Craftsmen, Installers, Cable Splicers, Linemen, etc.
Weekly
Annvany
Top rate employees earned even more. A conservative
estimate of the earnings of over 12,000 fully experi
enced employees in these groups is:
Switchboard Operating
Employees
Business Office
Representatives
Weekly
JUt-Muffy
$2,875.
3,075.
Craftsmen, Installers, Cable Ol A 07C
Splicers, Linemen, etc. Ot tOU.
Wages for Pacific Telephone employees today are double
what they would be on the 1939 rates.
Cost of living since 1940 is up 66.
Even that doesn't tell the full story. Telephone employ
ees receive automatic "progression" increases. Under
this wage progression, about three out of four Pacific
Telephone people will receive one or more raises this
year. Employees who started about 1939 in many cases
are getting three or four times as much as they did
then. About 36 of the employees who were with us in
non-management jobs in 1939, have been promoted to
management positions in this up-from-the-ranks industry.
There's been a lot Of disCUSSion in recent days by
Eastern union leadership about a telephone strike..
But as this is written no union representing Pacific
Telephone employees has called a strike against your
service. ;
If pickets do appear in front of telephone buildings in
your town, they will, most likely, be fronTthe union
representing installation employees of Western Elec
tric Company the company which installs most of
the telephone equipment in our buildings.
You may be sure that, no matter what the situation,
we'll do our level best to keep your calls going through.
What is PacificTelephone's wage objective? We believe
telephone people should be well-paid and that our
wages should compare favorably with those paid by
other concerns in the community for work requiring
similar skills and experience under conditions as good
as ours. We believe this and studies, of 8,000 West
Coast firms show they do.
One of the nation's finest benefit and pension plans
Telephone people have the assurance of a complete
benefit and pension plan . . . with all costs paid by the
company. There are liberal payments for sickness,
accident disability and death.
Minimum pensions are now $100 a month at age
sixty-five, including Social Security. Many employees,
of course, get more than the $100 a month pension . . .
depenciing on their pay and years of service. For ex
ample, if a man started at 22 and retires when he's 62,
following ten years with an average wage of $80 a
week, he'll get a pension of $139 a month.
Working conditions good -Steady work in an essential
service . . . good working conditions . . . pleasant asso
ciations . . . these are some of the items a telephone
man or woman can count on. There are many chances
to advance; all the topmen and women in the com
pany came up from the ranks. There are vacations with
pay, of course up to three weeksand seven or eight
paid holidays each year.
Perhaps the best evidence of the quality of telephone
jobs is that plenty of good people have kept coming
into the telephone serv ice . . . and they stay a long time.
The cost of any general wage increase would have to be
paid by telephone customers. The company's earnings
are already too low. Wage increases over the past ten
years have amounted to millions of dollars more than
rate increases.
We'll do our best to keep your calls moving-If a strike
comes, we pledge that we will do everything within our
power to meet our public obligation in continuing the
service a service so vital to public health and welfare.
The Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph Company
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