Ask? Long List of Questions
Includes One on Kitchen Sink
What type of questions will the census taker ask when he starts
ringing doorbells April 17 i
The queries will Vary slightly from home to home, depending on
uch factors as your age and whether you're a farmer or a city
dweller.
But certain basic questions will be asked of every .person. Every
one will be asked his or her name, relationship to the head of house
hold, race, sex, age, marital status.
citizenship status, birthplace and
employment status.
Questions pertaining to previous
places of residence, birthplace of
parents and education will be
asked of every fifth person
For every fifth person over the
ge of 14 there will be a series of
questions dealing with employ
ment Only one of these may
cause any controversy. The 1949
Income will be asked?
The question may arise, "Why
not use Income tax figures?" The
answer Is that Income tax returns
are filed by 50,000,000 persons
yearly while there are 115,000,-
000 persons -who. fall in the age
bracket of 14 years and up.
The 50,000,000 tax returns cover
the bulk of the nation's income
but it still is a partial figure that
- eliminates the income of 65,000,
000 persons. Only a census income
, question can bring a complete
answer. -
Every 30th person over the age
of 14 will be asked questions re
lating to marriage, divorce and
family.
The foregoing questions related
to population. Others will deal
with housing. Questions will be
asked about every dwelling unit
to determine the type and con
dition of the structure number of
persons occupying the unit, num
ber of rooms In the unit, water
supply, . toilet facilities, bathing
equipment, vacancy status and
whether the unit is owner or
tenant-occupied.
Every non-farm owner-will be
asked the value of his or her
property, number of dwelling
units and whether or not the
property is mortgaged.
Each non-farm renter will be
asked the amount of rent paid,
plus money paid for electricity,
'fuel and water and whether the
unit is furnished or unfurnished.
Separate questions will be asked
about every fifth dwelling unit.
These will pertain to the year the
structure was built, heating equip
ment, heating fuel, cooking fuel,
refrigeration equipment, electric
lighting, radio, and television set
Even the kitchen sink will come
In for questioning.
The final portion of the 1950
census will deal with agricultural
questions which will be asked at
every farm. Typical among these
are: - :
How many acres does the farm
Include? What method is used to
pay rent for jrented land? 1$ any
acreage operated by a hired man
ager? What methods of irrigation
are used? What was the produc
tion and sale of each field, vege
table and berry crop?
The questions will cover every
aspect of farming and every type
of farm, from livestock and dairy
products to bees and honey. ;
The census taker also will want
to know the value of the farm, its
mortgage debt its distance to a
trading center and the kind of
road on which it is located.
Air-information handled in the
census will be received in confi
dence and guarded carefully.
To insure this, enumerators
Jknow that a $2,000 fine and Jail
- sentence await anyone who does
not keep the confidence of the
citizen. -
The 17th decennial census again
will be conducted by the U.S. de
partment of commerce. Last re
ports must be completed by Dec
31, 1952, according to census law.
Workers will assemble facts on
approximately 150,000,000 Ameri
cans, 45,000,000 homes and 6,300,
000 farms.
Safe Crackers
Caught; Admit
Newport Job
PORTLAND, Feb. 22-P)-Three
men were in jail here today,
charged with taking a safe from
a Portland tavern and driving it
all the way to Rainier, Ore., to
smash it open in peace for the
$3,000 checks inside.
, Detective Collie Stoops and
William Taylor of the safe detail
said the trio admitted several
other burglaries including the
abortive theft of a safe from the
West Coast laundry and dry clean
ers at Newport
The Newport safe was stolen
Jan. 8, and abandoned on a road
after the burglars found - they
couldn't open it
, Charged with burglary not in
a dwelling are James Walter
Hooker, 34, Portland; Oscar Lee
Guthrow, 45, Portland: and Eu
gene E. Van Tress, 5J, Vancouver,
Wash. I
Detective Stoops said the three
confessed to stealing the Singer's
tavern sale Sunday, driving it to
an isolated fisherman's cabin
near Rainier, and smashing it up
there. .. j" ! I
Stoops said the three told him
that a fourth man "was also in
volved in the Newport safe theft:
Charles Anderson, who is now in
jail on another larceny charge.
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Bill Favored
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John Kapp turns up a vase en his potter's wheel In his shop at 525
S. Winter st, where he has been making ceramic objects since last
August. Rapp is a newcomer to Salem and is ene of the few eom-
merclal ceramic potters in the Willamette valley. (Statesman
phot.)
By Fa
rm
up
The Polk county farm bureau
went on record this week as fav
oring the balanced representation
plan for reapportionment of the
state legislature.
The bureau voted to instruct
the Oregon farm bureau federa
tion to help further the Dlan.
which was filed Tuesday with
the state elections bureau by a
group headed by A. Freeman
Holmer, Willamette university
professor.
Other business at the monthly
board of directors meeting held
this week" in West Salem includ
ed, a discussion of reciprocal trade
agreements affecting Willamette
valley specialty crops and the
grading of malting barley.
wniiam Howard, farm bureau
information director, reported on
an investigation of the Price
spread between Oregon seed pro
ducers and the southern states
which use Oregon seeds. Execu
tive V Ice -Pre sident ; Marshall
Swearingen reported on activities
of the Oregon farm bureau fede
ration. .
Gty Ceramist
Features Agate
Type Pattern
Making pottery and ceramic ob
jects is the business of John Rapp,
a ne wcomer to Sal era. In his shop
at 525 S. Winter st Rapp is turn
ing out bowls and vases as Salem's
only professional ceramist
) The field of pottery making in
western Oregon is somewhat limit
ed and there are only a few es
tablished kUns, but in California
it is a big business.
Rapp started as a boy to learn
the pottery trade at his father's
factory in central Illinois. He has
been working at the trade off and
on for 28 years. He came to Sa
lem last August and set up his
potter's wheel. Since then he has
been working at small bowls, bas
kets and pots on which he fires
a swirling pattern . named agate
after Oregon's coast stones.
Rapp uses a special clay mix
ture made up of clays from dif
ferent parts of the United States,
and instead of casting or molding
his pieces, he forms each one on
a potter's wheel. In this way each
piece produced is individual and
just a little different from, any
preceding or following piece.
Besides hit work of producing
ceramics on a commercial basis,
Rapp will begin a ceramics course
for amateurs next month. The
course will extend over a period
of 10 weeks and will be unique
in that classes will be limited to
only four pupils each.
Morse Asks
Channel Fund
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -(PP)-Senator
Morse (R-Ore) asked a
. senate committee today to allo
cate part of the funds asked for
improving the harbor at Coos Bay,
Ore to. deepening the channel to
a mooring basin at Charleston, on
the bay.
He said this would provide pro
tection for a fishing fleet opera
ting from the bay.'
He said he hoped that some of
the $1,000,000 recommended for
improving the harbor could be
used for providing the channel
and harbor for the fishing fleet
Gladstone Police Chief
Arrests Escaped Convict
OREGON CITY, Feb. 22 -JFh
Clifford D. Jennings, 34, who es
caped from the Washington peni
tentiary at Walla Walla in 1948.
was arrested today by Chief Louis
Biby of the Gladstone police force.
Biby said Jennings had been liv
ing with friends in Gladstone for
a year under an assumed name.
He is being held in the Clackamas
county jail here for Washington
. authorities.
f Jennings, officers said here, had
I two years to serve on a five year
i sentence for a Seattle burglary,
I and was a trusty working outside
Rosebu re Groups Plan
Study of Area Economy
J ROSEBURG, Feb. 22 -W5)- An
t industrial survey, to learn what
could give this area a round-the-calendar
income, will be launched
thortly by the chamber of com
merce and other groups.
The chamber hopes to find out
how to stabilize Roseburgs econ
! omy so that there will be brisk
business all year round. Expan
sion of present industries and es
tablishment of new ones is expected.
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Captive Cop
Induces Pair
To Surrender
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Feb. 22
GTVPoliceman Oliver Harin talk
ed two abductors into surrender-
in,; to him as a posse hunted for
them here.
That ended 10 hours of captivity
for the 31 -year-old officer.
Police Chief Paul Shaver iden
tified Hardin's kidnappers as Wil
liam R. Burke. 25, Janesville.
Minn and Theodore F. Leavitt.
25, Bridal Veil, Ore. No charges
had been filed by late afternoon.
Hardin stopped the two about 2
a.m. to question them. He ordered
them into his patrol car to take
them to the police station.!
But Leavitt, he said, forced him
at gun point to drive out of town
at breakneck speed. The gas ran
out a few miles from Cuba. 82
miles northwest of Albuquerque.
Hardin said Leavitt then forced
him to walk on to an abandoned
mine near Cuba. There they re
mained until Hardin talked Lea
vitt into surrendering. Burke,
Hardin said, already was willing
to give up;
Chief Shaver said Leavitt and
Burke admitted robbing an Al
buquerque liquor store Saturday
night of $353.
Hardin said Leavitt told him he
was an escaped convict from a
southern prison.
The patrolman said he reminded
the two that it would go much
easier with them if the gave tip.
He told Leavitt the New Mexico
prison is "much better than those
southern ones".
Hardin said Leavitt had tne
guns of all three. Finally he
banded over the officer's gun,
placed the fathers on the ground
and handuffed himself to Burke.
The officer said they started
hiking south along the highway
and finally met possemen search
ing for them.
Social Hygiene
Study Groups
View Movies
Four social hygiene study groups
of the Richmond school i-ar;-Teachers
association held a joint
meeting Tuesday night at which
the films "Human Growth" and
"Human Reproduction" were
shown. j
The four f groups have been
studying the1! Roy E. Dickerson
course. Leaders are Mrs. L. E.
Marschat, Mrs. Chris Seely, Mrs.
Frank Hrubetfc and Mrs. Edwin C.
Boal.
George Birrell, PTA president,
presided and Mrs. Ruby Bunnell,
executive secretary of the county
tuberculosis and health associa
tion, aided in the program.
Speaker was Curtis Avery of
the E. C. Brown trust, makers
of the film f Human Growth."
Timing, so as to catch Insect
pests at thejir most vulnerable
stage, is important in spraying.
Tha -Statesman, Scdtnu Ortg TuTsdcry. Ftbrucgf -23; 1950-7
Land Search
Ends for Lost
B-36 Airmen
VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 22
CflVFive crew members of an
abandoned U. S. air force B-36
were virtually given up-for dead
today.
A Royal Canadian air force
spokesman said the land search
for the men on rugged, heavily
timbered Princess Royal island
was being discontinued.
"Finding of the life raft yester
day has pretty well established
that the rest of the men perished
in the sea," the spokesman said.
The R.C-AiF. planned to leave a
high speed launch, one , airplane
and three helicopters in the search
of the sea and shorelines.
Seventeen men parachuted from
the burning, $6,000,000 super
bomber Feb. 14. Twelve were
rescued.
Listing of the five as missing
put the total of dead or missing at
61 for the blackest three-week
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WEATHER CHECKS HUNT
EDMONTON, ' Feb. 22 -(CD-Bad
weather today again forced
a United States air force plane
to postpone a projected sweep
over the mountains near Waldo,
B. C, to investigate possibilities
that puffs of smoke seen there
were signals from survivors of a
missing U. S. transport.
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