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Protest Lo dged WitliMcKayon Tuin Turn Dam About 70 Lincoln and Benton residents appeared before Gov. Douglas McKay Monday to pro test plans for the Turn Turn dam on the south fork of Mary's river. Turn Turn dam is a part of the wiuamette project. Opponents contended the Turn Turn crests at the same time the Mary's river crests at Philomath so that the tributary crest is not added to the down-river waters at peak flood time. It also was argued that the Willamette river water backs up Into the area. Speakers said the project re cently was listed as having won presidential approval. I Elmo Wehnert, spokesman for the delegation, told Governor Mc Kay that both the Lincoln and Benton county courts were op4 posed to the dam. as were the farmers union and grange. I The project had been aimed at flood control, along with creation of surplus water for elimination or pollution downstream and a recreation area. ' .. Wehnert quoted a survey, which pointed out that flood control could be achieved by clearing the stream and removing a down stream dam. Governor McKay said he had no knowledge that the Turn Turn dam was a part of the Willamette valley project but he would con fer with Willamette river basin officials and issue a statement Nationalist Police Crisis Near at Hand TAIPEI, Formosa, Tuesday, Feb. 11 -VP)- Nationalist China's long brewing political crisis neared an explosive climax today. Premier Yen Hsi-shan's office disclosed he was trying to resign, and the supreme war cabinet is sued an ultimatum to Acting President Li Tsung-jen to return home by Friday or lose his Job. " LI went to New York in Decem ber for a stomach operation. Yes terday he sent word that he want ed to return to China but that his doctor advised against a long journey. Even if he should start . immediately by air, he would have difficulty in , meeting the Friday deadline. - ' - - ' - ; (Li could not be reached in New York for comment. Since his ar rival there, he has kept in seclus ion and refused to see newsmen or answer questions,,) .- The telegram demanding his re turn said that if he did not, Gen eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek would be asked to resume the presidency without further ado. Clear Lake Home Unit Holds Session ' EUtetmaa News ferric ' CLEAR LAKE An all-day meeting of the Clear Lake exten- "slon unit was held last week at the community church withMrs. Arthur Evans and Mrs. Arthur Sorensen as hostesses. Mrs. Ever ett Whelan attended the prelimi nary meeting for better dress "workshop and plans for holding one at Clear Lake were discussed. Members making a sample drapery at the meeting were Mrs. Ted Girod, Mrs. Everett Whelan, Mrs. Arthur Punzel, Mrs. Floyd Herrold, Mrs. A. A. Eichelberger, Mrs. Carl Johnson, Mrs. Robert Aibury and Mrs. L. J. Chapin. Mrs. Lewis Adams became a new member. The next meeting wiH also be all day at the church on March 17, when Mrs. M. L. Mills and Mrs. T. C Mason will be project lead ers for making lampshades. Deer Rescued From Floating Ice, Later Dies PORTLAND, Feb. 20 -(JP)- A deer marooned on floating ice cakes in the Columbia river was rescued yesterday, but died today despite eiiorts or tne rescuers. Bonneville administration em ployes sighted the deer precar iously keeping its balance on ice floes coming down the river at dawn. They closed sluice gates and tried to get the deer. But the animal backtracked to another cake, and all day kept at least 30 feet from the power house.. So a huge rake, used to clear trash from the dam, was lowered into the river. The deer floated into it, and was hauled to shore. The animal was cold, trembling and exhausted. They tried to get it to eat The deer refused. They massaged its legs and put blankets around it, but early today the deer died, apparently of exposure. Are You a. Good Driver? No One With Faulty Vision Is As Good As He Should Be! Have Your Eyes Examined Today! - Dr. S. A. VYheatley - ' Optometrist 723 Court St Phono Z-4469 Fast Diapering Amazed These r Q . Nobody's more amazed than the babies as they get the fastest diaper changes they've ever had, at the Kiddle Karnival diaper derby Friday night, sponsored by Capital post 9. American Legion. From left to right are Sgt Charles Brown and Randy Wlmer, Fred Landt and son Ricky, Francis Rothweiler and daughter Sylvia, Lon-Spady and daughter Loana. Joseph H. Kitske was first place winner with a five-second Job. Landt placed fifth. (Statesman-Wlmer photo.) Delegates to Y Government Meet to Confer Plans for the annual state-wide YMCA-sponsored Youth and Gov ernment program April 28-29 in Salem will be discussed March 11 at a zone meeting in Eugene. Ten delegates from Salem's five Hi-Y clubs will attend the zone conclave. Already elected are Ronald Walters, Merlin Schulze, Wallace Carson, Glenn Benner, Kent Jdyers. Richard Peterson, Rex Layton and Bob Riggs. Two others will be named in the near future. The 1950 mock legislature will comprise senators and represent atives elected by 1,360 members of Oregon's 69 Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs. Las t-r year James Cooke of Sa lem, then school correspondent for The Oregon Statesman, was stu dent governor at the legislature. Speaker ef the House Salem this year will fill the of fices of senate clerk and speaker of the house. Other delegates will be senators and representatives. A new feature of this year's meet will be selection of 10 stu dent Journalists, including two from the Willamette valley zone, to cover the legislature under supervision of A L Lindbeck, Oregon Journal statehouse corres pondent . Roth Holtz, boys, work director at the Salem YM, said 12 clubs in this area will be represented at the Eugene zone meeting. Similar conferences are scheduled this Saturday at Portland. Ashland and LaGrande. Veteran Legislators The legislature in Salem will be supervised by such veteran law makers as Sen. Dean Walker of Independence, Sen. Howard C. Belton of Canby and Rep. Frank Van Dyke of Medford. Salem members of the statewide committee which will help plan the legislature include Frank B. Bennett Mayor R. L. Elfstrom. Tinkham Gilbert, C. A. Kells, A. L. Lindbeck, Marion E. Moore, Dr. Rex Putnam and Dr. G. Herbert Smith. Gov. Douglas McKay heads an advisory committee which includes Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry and State Treasurer Walter J. Pearson. PHIL BRADY RE-ELECTED PORTLAND, Feb. 20 -Jpy- Phil Brady was re-elected president ol the joint council of Teamsters lo cals of the state, the AFL union reported today. Trustees named at the weekend meeting included Ward Graham, Salem. V. a Swifter 450 N. Church Ph. 2-2428 sivu V OUt VIM 4 Elkliorn Homes ; Seek Electricity Itilwim Ntws Scrrleo MEHAMA An attempt to ob tain electric power is being made by a number of families living north of Mehama and up the Lit tle North Fork of the Santiam river to the Elkhorn community. A committee of t; three Elkhorn men, Bill BicketMIke Myers and Steve Dark, plan to attend a meet ing with Mr. Little, manager of R. E. A. of this region, in Cor vallis February 27. This will be followed by a pub lic meeting for. all those inter ested. Tentative plans are to con tinue the power line from the Johnny Lambrebht place cross north of Mehama and join the North Fork road at Bert Pyree's farm. From there it will go to Elkhorn. Minier Retires From Title Firm Walter B. Minier. who has been president of the Salem Title com pany for a number of years, has sold his stock jin the corporation and retired from the company. Purchaser is V. D. McMullen who has been stockholder and officer in the company. He has become the president I Minier joined the old Salem Abstract Co., the predecessor com pany, in 1922 and has been part owner in the business for 28 years. He intends to continue his residence in Salem and is taking a rest before taking on any new business activity. MAKE A NOTE . . Not V.V! V i' V04CE COACH Rof Campbell: "1 tried mBj bruds befoe I foaad the dgamtc that agrees with taj throat. The 30-Day Test cooriaced sat that Camel are mUd cool aad auldl tCNOOL TEACHEt Mary Turner: "Grriag daily lecrore ian'teasy em my throat. I amoke Camd they acres with aay throat. Wooderfully Biild. Woo tJcrfal taatiog, tool" Start your own 30-day Camel MILDNESS test today! Salem Babies & .J r f "VM.:.i;vV:iji v:... . ,. Idaho, Oregon Legislators In Conference BOISE, Feb. 20-P)-A group of Oregon legislators met with Idaho lawmakers for a discussion of highway legislation and recipro city today. The Oregon delegation stopped here enroute home from a meet ing in Salt Lake City of the west ern Interstate committee on high ways. They met with the Joint senate and house committee of the Idaho legislature and the interim com mittee on highways. Two mem bers of the group, Oregon State Senators Elmo Smith of Ontario and Paul Patterson of Hillsboro, were introduced to the Idaho sen ate. Other members of the delega tion were Sen. Jack Bain; Reps. Ralph Moore, chairman of tne Oregon highway interim commit tee; Rep. Max Landon, chairman of the house highway committee; Rep. Ed Geary; George C. Hester of the Oregon state highway de partment; Earl Newbry, secretary of state; Jack McCullough of the secretary of state's office; O. R. Eckersley, secretary of the interim highway committee, and George Flagg, Oregon public utilities com missioner. Cumberland Gap is at the junc ture of the Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia boundaries. oiie single case due . REMEMBER YOUR THR0AT1 HOUSEWIFE Polly Barkers Xigarette mild new conots with sac. too. The 30 -Day Test certainly woa bm to Camrit. They're the wildett. beat-tat-Jog daarctterTe evee tmokedl" MEXEt THE TEST! Smoka ooly CameU for 30 days! Compare them la yoBtT-Zonc" (T for throat, T for tajt&l See if you doa't agree that Camls arc the n'ldeit. best-tastiag dsareoe. a. a Are You Happy Club' Reported Growing Fast MEDFORD. Feb. 20 -UP)- The latest thing in clubs here is the Are You Happy club?" It started only last week, and the president says there are now 300 members from Seattle to San Francisco. There are a number of attract ions: No dues; no meetings; no mail; and the minute you join you become a vice-president There's only one president though. He's Joe R. NeiL a fur niture dealer here, who started the club with the idea of remind ing people they are happy. - There's also another feature. When one member asks another, "Are you happy?" the answer can be as long as needed to get all small gripes . out of the system. Then, presumably, the man is happy again. Old members bring in new ones, and so the club grows. Lutherans to HoldWorkshop AtSilverton SUtetmaa News Serrlca SILVERTON Mrs. S. L. Aim lie, district Lutheran Women's Missionary Federation president has announced that the district workshop will be held at Imman- uel Lutheran church there Tues day. Attending wiU be women from Woodburn, Canby, Salem, Trinity and Immanuel, the latter two churches at Silverton. Mrs. John Overland, Silverton, will be in charge of morning divi sions with the those in atten dance later dividing into groups for discussion during the forenoon. The meeting is to start at 10 am. Directing the morning groups will be Mrs. Lief Peterson, Wood burn, and Mrs. M. G. Gunderson, Silverton, missions; Mrs. Stanley Swanson, Silverton, and Mrs. James Phillips, Silverton, educa tion; Mrs. H. Rogan, Monitor, and Christina Magnussen, Canby, char ities, life membership and in mem oriam; Mrs. A. Knutzen, Canby, Mrs. Henry Torvend, Salem, pro motion; Mrs.' Almlie, WFM of ficers. Women of Immanuel Lutheran church will serve the noon lunch. During the afternoon the chairmen of the groups will give summar ies of the morning discussions. The featured speaker in the afternoon will be Mrs. Joseph Luthro, wife of the Trinity church pastor, who will talk on home mission work in Alaska. Salt Lake City, which lies near the Wasatch mountains, has an elevation of 4,330 feet NOTED THROAT SPECIALISTS REPORT on 30-Day Test of Camel smokers . . . to smoking CAME Y, Ihtt wr Ik findings of nofd (drool iptclatlsts after a fof af of 2,470 wUy xomlnolloni of throate of hvndrodt of mm and worn tn who smofcori Csmoll and only Com.ll for 30 oncrlr days. BRILLIANT YOUNG SOPRANO OF i0 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA ' MDIM ' (V Conner Jr "MATURALiy V j ,' y. - MY CIGARETTE MUST BE fl X : mild. Camels agree ncoj , '; u V I wrm My throat- and C7f) ""0 ''N, - V .1 DEFINITELy PREFER Zi ) , ! j x x - THEM FDR TASTE !"ivA '0$ - Nodin. Conner luuodded . ly iA - . 1 ' roleoftrofetoher ' fa' ' $X V' , . ' hhhJ " ' mi- i if i ii i inn rf r utmmmmmwmmmmmmmmtimmmmmmM . - . -.. f m 3- v- . f f " ."-- , i V"' . .', 1 ' ' ' F I aia.R. c. Plans Revival lirji.i.u, m mi f , in , i , "' i , . . i T jg. . - " 'A The Rev. Henry B. Aarhus, presi dent ef the Oreron Conference of Wesleyan Methodist churches, will conduct special revival services at the AnmsvUle Wes leyan Methodist church begin ning at 7:30 o'clock tonight and continuing nightly through March 5. Aarhus. who organized the Anmsville church, now is serving in Vancouver, Wash. Withholding Tax System Killed in Idaho BOISE, Fb. 20-CVThe Idaho house today killed 23 to 35 a bill to establish withholding tax sy stem for collecting the state in- rcome tax, a major proposal of the government reorganization com mittee. The action came after a heated three-hour debate during which the house refused 19 to 39 to lay the bill on the table. The senate previously had passed the meas ure. , Meanwhile, the senate investi gating committee continued its probe of four state departments and took steps to impound the books and records of State Pur chasing Agent Harold Boyd. Also being investigated by the senate group are the attorney gen eral's office, budget bureau and commissioner of insurance. Leaders of both parties stressed before balloting on the withhold ing tax bill that it was not their party's bilL Rep. Howard Hecht ner (S-Nez Perce) minority floor leader, declared "it is not a demo cratic bilL It is sponsored by the reorganization, committee.' HARRY EWltlG Tax Consultant Income Tax, Federal, State Accounting, Quarterly Reports 1937 Fairgrounds " Rd. Phone 2-S04S of throat The Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Coos County Democrats File ature Two Coos county democrats Monday filed election papers here for the state representative post now held by Ralph Moore, repub lican. They were Carl Schindler of Coos Bay and Mrs. Valerie Lee Taylor of North Bend. Circuit Judge Ralph M. Holman of Clackamas county filed to suc ceed himself, and Circuit Judge R. J. Green of LaGrande filed for re-election in the 10th judicial district, Union and Wallowa coun ties. Circuit judges ran as non partisan. Other candidates filing Mon day: John Dickson, Milwaukie, re publican, for state representative, 9th district, Multnomah county. Incumbent. Henry E. Peterson, lone, repub lican, for slate representative, 22nd district, Morrow, Sherman, Wheeler and Gilliam counties. Incumbent I William W. Bradeen, Burns, re publican, for staje representative, 30th district, Grant and Harney counties. William A. Stockman, Port land, for judge of the circuit court, 4th judicial district, de partment 3, Multnomah county. Thomas O'Gorman, Milwaukie, republican, for state representa tive, 7th district, Clackamas county. Nut Growers' Employes to Vote on Union PORTLAND. Feb. 2nJuPTh national labor relations board re ported today it would hold an other bargaining agent election at the plant of the Northwest Nut Growers here. The AFL Cannery workers protested the November 18 election results, rharcrin fh company laid off the night work- 1 B era oeiore tne Daiioting and re hired them after the balloting. The NLRB upheld the protest The union had lost the Novem ber election by a narrow margin. The vote was yes 37 and no 40. Attention LOGGERS TOP PRICES : PAID FOR LOGS Bnrkland Lnnhcr a Turner, Ore. Ph. 1125 ForLegisl mtation LS Tuesday. Febrnarf 21, 1950 3j New East Salem Lions Gubto Gel . Charter Tonight The new east Salem Linn rlnh will receive its charter tonight in a meeting at the Salem Chamber of Commerce. Members of other Lions club throughout lh Wil lamette valley have been invited to arcena. Frank White of ftarrii TtfT rivet.. . rict governor, will nrMmt th charter to Stearns Cushing, presi dent oi me new unit. - Glen Wade will nak m -ninr- ies of Lionism" and Al rn win be toastmaster. Both are Salem men. i Lloyd Hanson of Wmamt university will nrovide H music and Grace Ashford. TUir Isham and Glennis Allen will sing. a. Uanieison is chairman of the charter night program. New Weekly Paper to Start In Vancouver VANCOUVER. Wash . Fob 20- (JP)- A new weekly newspaper for Vancouver was announced today. Cards announcing that; the "Vancouver Tribune" soon would begin publication were distributed to businessmen here. William L. McCarter. a nartnr in the Screw Machine Products company, Portland, said it would be a weekly "to start with," but that no publication date yet had been set. "Nobody knows who will be editor now," he added. The paper will be published In the plant of the defunct Vancou ver Sun. which was bought two years ago by Fred Chitty, man ager oi radio station KVAN here, McCarter and his nartner. Wil liam H. Schwabe. Buttons Covered -FREE Daring the month ef February we will cover one set of bat tons ABSOLUTELY FREE U any lady calling at ear stere. Nothing te bay -nothing te pay. Come In get acquainted with oar sew tag inatractor, Mrs. Isabella Andersen. NEW HOME Sewing Center Ralph Johnson Appliances SSS Center Street. Tk. t-lUt
