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HALEY TO TO A STM A STER
George Haley will be acting
toastmaster at the Thursday night
meeting of the Willamette Toast
masters club at 6:15 o'clock in the
Bright Spot cafe. Slated speakers
Include Henry Tiano, John Gal
lagher, Al Cramer, Clarence
Prange and Cyril Mauley.
Johns - Manville shingles applied
by Mathis Bros.. 164 S. Com'l
Free estimates. Ph. 34642.
OVERCOME BY GAS
City first aid men reported that
Esther J. Briggs, 68T N. Front St.,
a waitress, was overcome by gas
af her residence about 5:15 p.m.
Sunday. Attendants revived her
and she was not hospitalized.
Insured savings earn more -than
two per cent at Salem Federal
Savings Association, '560 State st.
DUXIWAY TO SPEAK
State Archivist David C. Duni
way will discuss the duties and
headaches of his work, in care of
historic Oregon documents, at the
Salem Optimist club luncheon
Thursday noon.
Exchange Teacher in England
Describes Visit to U.S. Air Base
"- How the United States air force promoted, of all things, a
teachers convention in England recently, is described in a letter
to The Statesman from Sylvia J. Claggett Of Salem, an American
exchange teacher in England.
Miss Claggett is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Claggett,
1820 Chemawa rd. She is spending a year at Salford, England, Her
letter follows:
"The American exchange teach
ers were invited to have , teach
- ers convention. Now thia is novel
in that it is. the first time" in the
history of Great Britain that
. American teachers have held
convention on cntisn sou. .
"We were invited by the chief
Information officer. Captain W.
HilL to be guests of the United
States air force at the air force
base, Burtonwood, near Manches
ter, on the week end of, January
27, 28. '
Maintenance Base
"We toured the base, and saw
the manner in which a peacetime
air base is operated. This is the
largest maintenance base here, and
all the maintenance for the large
transport ships in England and for
Europe is carried on at this base.
Burtonwood played a great part
.in the. air life to Beriin during
Vthe Russian blockade.
-"We had a personal example of
American ingenuity when we
drove through the trailer site on
' the base, The air force has made
available to its non-coms an area
and has allowed them to rent
trailers and park them there. These
are no ordinary trailers. Additions
have been built to them in a func
tional and not unpleasant design
and have' been painted to har
monize with the trailers. But that
is not all. The residents have
planted little gardens of flowers
that bloom in profusion in the
spring. '
Expenses Reduced
"A. note which will be of inter
est to the tax payers at home was
the recent cut in the cost of oper
ation at Burtonwood. Personnel
was cut by a large percentage and
economy measures are being pur
sued. Capt. Hill assured us that
the base. was adjusting very fa
vorably to these changes. -
It was very interesting to be
with Americans again, to speak. the
American language,' to visit the
post 'exchange and see American
products lining the shelves in neat
rows. This we haven't seen in six
'months."
Oregon Streets
Conclave to Hear
Local Engineers
Several .Salem area engineers
are slated as speakers and leaders
for the second annual Oregon
Roads and Streets conference at
Corvallis on February 23-24, spon
sored by Oregon State college
engineering department.
State Highway Engineer R. H.
Baldock- of Salem will be one of
the principal speakers. Others on
the program include Salem City
Engineer J. Harold Davis and
Marion County Engineer Hedda
Swart, as well as- Linn County
Engineer W. W. Larsen.
Births
SYLVESTER To Mr. and Mrs.
Wilfred Sylvester, 4010 Alana ave.,
son. Sunday, February 5, at Sa
lem Memorial hospital.
SIMON To Mr. arid Mrs. Rob
art Simon, McMinnville, a son,
Sunday, February 5, at Salem Me
morial hospital.
GRIFFIN To Mr. and Mrs.
Kenneth Griffin, 248 Marion st.,
a son, Sunday, February J, at Sa
lem General hospital.
SHELTON To Mr. and Mrs.
Perry Shelton, 685 Edina in., a son,
Sunday, February 5, at Salem Gen
eral hospital.
VAWTER i To Mr. and Mrs.
Ruel Vawter, Stay ton, a daughter,
Saturday,' February 4, at Salem
Memorial hospital. 1 - -
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ON OUTSTANDING LIST
Warren W. Cooley, Salem rep
resentative for Guarantee Mutual
Life company of Omaha, achieved
10th place in production for the
entire company for 1949, it was an
nounced Sunday. The record was
made in Cooley 's first year in the
li.'e insurance business. He is as
sociated with the E. J. Knutson
agency of Portland.
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until 5 p. m. including the noon
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ROTARIANS FETE WIVES
Salem Rotary club will have a
noon round table instead of the
regular luncheon Wednesday at
the Marion hotel, since that eve
ning will be a Ladies' night pro
gram at the hotel.
Spencer Corsetier call 3-5072.
Frank Branch Riley (above),
widely known speaker whose
specialty Is promotion of the
northwest's beauty and poten
tialities, will make the princi
pal address at the Marion coun
ty Lincoln Anniversary rally
Friday night.
f Ambassador
Of Northwest'
Due at Rally
A speaker nationally known as
''ambassador of the Pacific north
west to the world will share
some of his enthusiastic experi
ences and ideas Friday night, with
persons attending the Lincoln
Anniversary rally in Salem arm
ory. That is Frank Branch Riley,
Portland attorney.
Riley is credited with having
brought thousands of visitors to
the northwest, by virtue of his
28 transcontinental lecture tours,
his appearances before all types
Of audiences, and his picture and
word illustrations of this section.
He is also a mountain climber,
explorer and world traveler and
has been featured on many col
lege lecture courses, since his dis
courses include not only the scenic
story of the old Oregon . country
but also the industrial and scien
tific resources.
The program will be centered
around Riley's talk, free cider
and fiddling, with some 10-second
talks added.
Italy Commies
Paint Signs, on
U.S. Consulate
VENICE, Italy, Feb. 5 -iJp)-Communists
today painted on the
U.S. consulate here signs attack
ing an American diplomat con
nected with American arms aid
for Italy.
The slogans were aimed at Jos
eph E. Jacobs, special assistant to
UJ5. Ambassador James C. Dunn.
They read "down with Jacobs.-'
Others said: "We want work and.
bread" and "down with the H
bomb." Public
Records
MUNICIPAL COURT . ,
Albert LeRoy Crow, Salem,
charged with assault with intent
to commit j-ape; held in lieu of
$3,500 bail.
Phono 3-9694
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Meet Stresses
Social Hygiene
Teacher Need
The need for additional persons
trained to teach in the field of so
cial hygiene and for getting such
information into the home were
stressed at the annual Oregon
State Conference on Social Hy
giene in Portland Friday and Sat
urday, according to Marion coun
ty delegates.
The conference recommended in
its long-range program that me
dical schools, teacher training
schools and other such institutions
add courses to equip persons to
teach social hygiene both with
knowledge and ability.
In-service training in the field
among present health workers was
also urged as valuable, according
to Howard Pyfer, Marion county
health educator, who was recorder
for the conference section includ
ing health officers, physicians,
nurses and law enforcement offi
cers. The ninth annual meeting put
its stress on the 1950 national
theme of "Social Hygiene Is a
Family Affair."
Others attending from here in
cluded Dr. W. J. Stone, county
health officer; Mrs. Bernice Yeary,
nursing supervisor; Lyndall Birk
beck, assistant nursing supervisor;
public health nurses Evelyn Krue
ger, Claudia Donnelly, Helen
Wangsgard and Mrs. Jean Wright;
student nurse Mary Mondloch, all
of the county health department;
Mrs. Ruby Bunnell, executive sec
retary, and Mrs. Lillian Zinn and
Mrs. Bessie Edwards, all of Mar
ion County Tuberculosis and
Health association.
Salem Eagles
Celebrate 25th
Anniversary
(Story also on page 1)
Salem's Willamette aerie, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, which will
celebrate its 25th anniversary this
week, was instituted Feb. 1, 1925,
with 129 charter members led bv
Charles Shaw as president and S.
. wmett as secretary.
This month is also the 52nd an
niversary of the national order's
founding in Seattle.
Charter members who have been
in the aerie continuously since
1925 are Shaw, Cash Roberts, Les
ter Jones, O. J. Lewis, William
Clements, Lewis Swift, A. A.
Priem and Floyd Smith.
Blood Donor Program
The lodPP PTPW tn 2fid mmhr
in 1927, to 509 in 1939 and then
soared to 2,115 last June. Out
standing projects of those years
have included the conduct of a
blood donor Droeram for v-ral
years and in 1949 the successful
puDiic campaign lor an iron lung
for the Salem infantile naralvsis
treatment center.
Presidents of the group have in
cluded, in order, Shaw, Lester
Jones, Claude Seagrove, Ed Stew
art. Sam Eshleman. Revnnlds Oh.
mart, H. B. Scof ield, Earl Filsinger,
n. Lr. coursey, Cecil Lantz, A.
Warren Jones, Frank Marshall,
Ralph Emmons. S. Stevens, T. w.
DuBois, A. C. Friesen. Lloyd
Moore, Mark Cappe, Dr. F. L. Ut
ter, E. E. Gettman, the late L. T.
Wallace. Emorv Sanders. Jamex
Sim, J. Wayne Sipe. Leslie A.
xiamiiion, secretary since 1939
and state secretary since 194, was
given last year by the grand aerie
the rank of honorary past worthy
president.
Former Secretaries
Secretaries prior to Hamilton
were S. N. Willett from 1925 to
1929 and Louu Tumbleson from
18Z9 to 1939.
Salem members u-hn hav fcM
state offices include Tster Jnn
A. Warren Jones and A. C. Frie
sen, all as president; Dr. F. L. Ut
ter as conductor; Reynolds Ohm
art as conductor and vice n resi
dent; W. W. Doss as trustee.
Other Salem officers this year
are Ed Gregson, vice president;
Merl Main, chaplain; A. M. Za-
hare. treasurer! Virtnr T. With
conductor; C. D. Carver, inside
guara; Lawrence Zielinski, out
side guard; William H. Porter,
Charles Graver, Arthur Martin,
trustees; Dr. M. K. Crothers, phy
sician.
Oil consumption in the United
States has increased about 28 times
since 1900.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 Sen. Tom
man David Lilienthal (center) listen as Sen. Brien McMahon (D-Conn) chairman of Joint congres
sional atomic energy committee discusses extraordinary hearing beinf opened In Washington, to probe
the ease of Klaus Fuchs, British physicist who worked on atomic bombs in the U. S.. and is now being
charred in a British court with giving- away atomic secrets. (AP Wirephote to The Statesman).
Choice of Richmond Students
New officers of Richmond school
the boys and girls above, pictured just after the final count of
ballots Friday. Left to right they are Judith Ann Seeiy, 1899 Court
st, president, sixth grade: Josette Wood, 2375 Lee st.. treasurer,
fifth grade; Larry Merk. 760 S. 25th st, vice president fifth grade;
Alan Boyer, 565 S. 25th st. sergeant-at-arms, fonrth grade: and
Barbara Smith, 582 S. 20th st. secretary, sixth grade. (Statesman
photo.)
County Given Survey of South
Road Up North
a.
A survey of a possible southslde
the Santiam river, based on a 1913
county court last week by Surveyor
The court soon will investigate
the south side of the stream and
difficult route along the north side.
Lumbermen and residents in
that area have complained to the
court of the hazardous driving
problems on the present road in
bad weather. A proposed plan, if
adopted, would have the road cross
to the south side of the stream, at
the west foot of the mountain
about five miles east of Mehama.
East of there the road is already
south of the river.
The north side road was built by
couaty crews in 1914. A county
surveying report at the time, how
ever, indicated that the south side
would provide a better location
for a road bed. The proposed j
change would send the road up the
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for the remainder of the year are
Santiam Branch
road up the Little North fork of
survey, was presented to Marion
Dale Graham.
the establishment of a road along
abandoning the present hilly and
south side for about three miles
where it would merge with the ex
isting road, which crosses to the
south side on Lumker's bridge.
Holly berries are comparatively
scarce because only female trees
produce berries, and then only if
weather is right.
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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE:
ITS REINSTATEMENT OF PRIMITIVE
CHRISTIANITY AND
Ralph Castle, C S., of San Francisco, Calif.
Mambar of tha Board of lectureship of Tha Mother Church,
Tha First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts
Next Tuesday Noon, February 7th
At 12:10 p. m. in
ELSIN0RE THEATRE
First Church of Christ, Scientist,
Salem, Oregon
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member, and former AEC Chair
J. A. Wright,
Employe at
Postof f ice. Dies
John Albert (Jack) Wright, 5,
a long-time Salem resident and a
local postoffice employe for near
ly 30 years, died unexoertedly
Sunday afternoon at his home
here.
Wright had Just returned home
from work at the postoffice when
he collapsed of a sudden heart at
tack.' He was one of the oldest
postoffice employes in point of
service and would have retired in
September. He was a clerk at the
registry window.
He is survived by the widow,
Mrs. Annabelle Wright; brother,
Luther Wright of Tacoma, Wash.;
sister, Mrs. Ethel Workman of Cas
tle Rock, Wash.; daughter, Mrs.
Allen Frazer of McMinnville; three
grandchildren. Dale Shepard of
Sacramento, Calif., Dorothy Meier
of Salem and Jerry Robinson of
Eugene, and by four great-grandchildren.
The deceased was born in Dade
county, Missouri, in 1884. "He was
a graduate of Willamette univer
sity. He spent a number of his
earlier years on a farm near Zena
In Polk county prior to coming to
Salem. He was married in Salem
37 years ago.
Wright was a member of Pacific
lodge 50, AF & AM. of Saletn Elks
lodge 336, and of Modern Wood
men of America. Funeral services
are being arranged by the W. T.
Rigdon chapel.
Tel Aviv Police End
Rel Sitdown Strike
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 5 -WV
Police ended a communist sitdown
strike today by ejecting 12 demon
strators from the Jewish agency
r building in the heart of Tel Aviv.
The strike started two weelcs
ago. The demonstrators said they
had' been discriminated -against in
distribution of seed on communal
farms. This was denied by settle
ment officials, who said the strike
was political.
infilled
SPIRITUAL HEALING
Tha Statesman, Salem. Oregon.
Salem School Census Already
Outgrowing Expansion Allowed
By Passage of '48 School Bond
(Editor's noU: This U the third In writ of article! on the Salem puWie
schools' salient problem where U put the war and postwar babie as they
reach school age.)
By Marguerite Wlttwer Writht
Staff Writer, The Statesman
A $3,500,000 bond issue, proposed by the school board two years
ago to make possible an extensive school expansion program, was
defeated overwhelmingly in February, 1948.
Voters dumped the proposal then because it seemed unsound
to vote bonds in excess , of what appeared, to be . immediate needs, ,
especially in a time of high building costs. A group of local business
men objected to the extra 15 mills j
the issue would add to district
taxes and opposed paying interest
on borrowed funds that might not
be used for several years.
They advocated reducing the
bond issue to $1,500,000 on the
premise that this amount would
answer school enlargement re
quirements until 1950. After the
$3,500,000 bond issue failed to
pass (the first time in this century
Salem voters vetoed a school bond
issue). Superintendent of Public
Schools Frank B. Bennett laid
out a curtailed expansion pro
gram to 'fit the $1,500,000 fund.
This issue was okayed by
voters in ApriL 1948.
the
It made available two new
schools, Washington and Lincoln,
and 36 additional classrooms all
of them filled to capacity.
When the public school enroll
ment reached 7,540 last fall, the
school board took another deep
breath and peered into the future.
It saw the prospect of at least
15 mdre classrooms necessary this
coming fall. It saw that today's
teenagers, products of the depres
sion's low birthrates, make up
probably the smallest classes
Salem high school will ever have.
It saw that Marion county
births have averaged about 2,500
the past three years three times
as many as were born during the
years that provided the 'current
high school student body.
It saw that today's first grad
ers, born when the wartime
birthrate was at its peak, are only
the advance guard for the big
crush to come. And it wondered
how district 24 is to provide hous
ing for at least an estimated 4,000
more students 10 years hence. So
once more the board turned to
Bennett for the facts and fore
casts. "Carry the story to the public"
was Bennett's advice to the school
board last year. Tell the parents
and taxpayers and businessmen
the story of increasing population
through birth and immigration,
increasing classroom requirements
every year. Tell them how much
it's going to cost to build the
necessary additions, to hire the
teachers, to administer the plant.
To "carry the story" Bennett
has prepared a bulletin of charts
(showing birthrates and sub
sequent increases in school popu
lation) to back up his estimates
of future needs. Predictions for
the next six years are based on
birth rates to date, and forecasts
for the more distant future are
conjectured on the supposition
that a downward 'ff end will follow
the 1947 World War II birth peak
in a similar pattern to the decline
following the 1921 birthfate peak
of World War I.
It is fairly certain that Ben
nett's studies and predictions will
form the basis for planning Sa
lem's future school expansion.
They are to be released for pub
lication this week and will be
examined in the next article in
this series.
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China Reds Say
U.S. Officials
Free to Leave
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1-iJPy-The
Chinese communists declared
officially today that 'American
J diplomatic personnel were free to
leave any time butmost of ;them
have made no move to do jso.
The Peiping radio, heard in San
Francisco by the Associated Press,
broadcast a statement by a
spokesman of the communist for
eign ministry to the communist
new China .News agency. !
It said that, although the de
partment of state had attempted
"to intimidate our people" by an
nouncing plans January 14 to
withdraw all official personnel
from China, "the action of the
U.S. government has fallen aston
ishingly behind its statement
The spokesman declared, "Tha
overwhelming majority of. tha
former American diplomatic per
sonnel in China have up till now
shown no sign of moving, i
"They have not applied to cur
government ' for exit permits, al
though our government is ready
to permit them tP leave at any
time."
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