The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, May 21, 1950, Image 20

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Newspaper Page Text, S3 -ThS" Sled a smnu Salem ment For To Be Delayed Defeat of a Salem airport roill age tax will postpone a planned extension of the main runway1 and installation of high intensity lighting. City Manager J. I Frn xen said Saturday. ( . The airportJtax.was voted down by Salem electors Friday, but five 'other ' fund-raising measures for . city works were apjrfovedU . City Manager Franzen express ed satisfaction that the five ap proved issues will get the adminis tration off to a "good start" on Its recently drafted 10-year plan for city development. Boildlnr tm Be Finished : . He pointed out that defeat of the eurport tax will not prevent com pletion of the first part of the city airport administration building this year. The building Is now un der construction. - The defeated tax (at 2.6 mills) would9 have raised about $150,000 over - two years, with . this local money "slated to be matched by federal airport funds, Defeat of, the tax will . lose to Salem, at least for the time being, a $30,030 -federal airport . fund which had, already bejn allocated tentatively .for work" at Salem, provided the city, put up its own .matching tunas ny tnis June l. Other Issues Approved -s. " . t N The 'civil aeronautics adminis tration periodically makes- tenta . trve allocations,' by cities as it prepares or revises its budget. , "Approved by Salem voters were ' k one-year tax; to buy a' new pumper and aerial ladder truck for the' fire department and bond issues to complete the sewage dis posal system, establish new. drain . age, - replace and repair bridges and construct reservoirs and make other water supply improvements. TwoOfficials Are Recalled ASHLAND,- May 20rVThis recall center of i Oregon; recalled two more city officials yesterday. Leaving office this time are May or Thomas S. Williams, who lost in a 1300-to-1225 vote, and Coun cilman Elmer Sheldon, who lost by 1544 to 948. The city council win name replacements. Linn County Turns Down Road Levy v I ..' !-!! . .''ff :,J Statexman New Service! ALBANY, May 20 A pro posed five-mill levy to finance county road repairs was defeated 4J82 votes to 4,662 in the Linn county special, election, a complete count showed today. TUD BONDS APPROVED -TILLAMOOK. May 20-W3V:Til lamook county passed a $1,485,000 bond issue for the Tillamook PUD, bat rejected a proposed $0,000 levy for repair of county bridges, STREET LEVY PASSES ' THE DALLES, May 20--Voters passed- a 4-miH levy for street improvement in The Dalles, 1210 to 785. T Take Take Take ywolet!3 t .- . . f : i ' i " i Develop Airport Oro?ori, Sunday,. Mcry'll; 1853 ion ouaaayy way i ...... cr.- ( i t ; Marion Cbunty!SiVoto:v Complete 'semi-official returns from all 110 of Marion county's precincts Saturda "showed the fol lowing results: GOVERNOR1 : i (D) Austin Flegel -3,338 -3,093 .1,890 Walter Pearson, Lew Wallace R) Douglas. McKay .13,680 U.S. SENATOR (D) Howard Latoyrette . 4,224 3,602 9,563 4,900 1,487 Ljuui9 wooa . in ., (R) Wayne Morse Dave Hoover John McBride STATE SUPREME COURT Walter Tooze .11,049 Robert Maguire 9,503 ' Austin Dunn ,,, 3,562 LABOR COMMISSIONER (D) Howard Morgan 6,424 (R) William Kimsey ; 12,421 4 U. S. REPRESENTATIVE (DT Roy'B. Hewitt : 5,405 L. T. Ward Z, i (R) Walter1 Norblad 14,425 STATE SENATOR (2) (D) Arthur Davis 5.529 530 Frank Porter (R) Fred Lamport 7,008 5,885 5,340 5,051 Douglas Y eater W. W.Chadwick Frank Doerfjer Mayor Elfstxom Pleased, icitJi" 1 ? Approval of Financial Issues L; ' ' ' By Robert City Editor, Mayor R. L. (Bob) Elfstrom the inevitable question: ... , , whatrt tou think of city election results? . ,He was downright pleased over six Salem' financial measures. ..He. was affable, but guarded, dtv ballot.; - ' Now in his fourth year as Sa lem mayoti Elfstrom had declined to run for reelection and had made no endorsement of city candidates.' , "There-were three" good men running for mayor . and one; of them: had to lose out '.his time." Elfstrom commented on. the pri- mary result wnicn puis narry v. Collitts and Alfred w. toucKa mio a runbff election in November af ter eliminating Walter -Musgrave. And the way it looked to him Saturday, the present . mayor washl about to endorse any candi date In November, either. "I'm no ould-be kingmaker." said Elfstrom. . In the orily aldermen's contests; two wards returned to the citv council Thomas Armstrong and Albert H. Gille who have been serving on the city council which Elfstrom .heads as mayor. On. the subject f the financial measures,. Elf strom interpreted the vote as "public acceptance of our city's long range plan." The voters approved four bond issues and a special tax, and re jected only a proposed airport im provement tax. "Fact that our voters singled out one- Issue to oppose," , reasoned Elfstrom, "leads me to think they really considered each of the is sues on its own merits." "Especially since I feel, myself, that . the airport program was the the Key . . , a Ride . . the Leader! - H - r. g'tsi'.r lu'.-fcu.J . ....... v H .-ci 4...r.'u. t-fca.l-4Kt!) i-l r.l f r.cr !;iLT2 esJ .4 r , , , cr;vu; - " -rUcd - 3 ; :t v ;-VL ! J v- ' i"f.Jjf Drive 'terns tl; no' facts ty . : . . - -3c,r r- . corrects sstLfactiCrJ AnJ joy'U he f ' "J -.f-t-J' toil ..-' . CV '':ce:y. nC -n'i HrJT . , , .:J t.. ! I i ' I I Steve Anderson 4,563 j K.: Ny Thompson - " 1,131 Richard Ryroan .1,087 ' REPRESENTATIVES (tf ' .' . (D) Lawrence Koch 5,730 5.404 5,381 P. W. Hale Alvin WhitlawT Josephine- Spauldlag Ward- Graham - (R) Mark Hatfield Roy Ilouck John Steelhammer . - Lee Ohraart Lloyd Girod : 5.094 - 3,856 7,895 7.6Q3 6431 6,207 5,979 H..R. Jones . 5,923 Gene Malecki E. E. Boring Ivan Martin George Emigh "B. E.-Owens Richard Severin. 3,254 3,136 2,918 2,708 2,707 2,387 COUNTY COMMISSIONER (D) Andy Bark -, ,-,:.. 5.497 A. N. Vistica . , ,n ,r.; 2,545 (R) E. E. Rogers 9379 4,888 A. J. Zielinski COUNTY RECORDER ; (D) Henry Heyden ,6371 (R) Herman Lanke 12.738 COURTHOUSE LEVY Tea. .12,43 No .1U38 HEALTH BUILDING LEVY Yes 10,766 No v 11-631 E. Gangware The Statesman broke into a big smile Saturday at the voters approval for five of - . over the fate, of candidates on the least urgent . of the six public pro grams involved. The approved measures will fi nance new firefighting equipment, reservoirs, sewase disnosal tl ant- bridges, and drainage system. MEASURES APPROVED MEDFORD, May ; 20-CPl-Meda ford- approved three financial measures at thei polls yesterday A . $2,800,000 water department bond issue; a 4-mill tax levy , for the fire department: and a $125. 000 fire department improvement oona issue. . m Cost! pcrf.ruiir.ee .ih cccn- I - TJ,.J II Ct J !- tttX inj " ri.l- rise . . . i- t?-. riiir . . . VJ Hi turvtd mJMJ.:c 'y , t j u iy rr( ,, " ... i J i. . i McMinnville Mdy or Loses Over Parking Statesman News Serrica - McMINNVTLLE, May 20 ,'A hot controversy over parking in downtown McMinnville was de cided, today. ; , . ' - A wrile-in candidate. Dr. W. H. Barendrick, defeated R. H. Windi shar, - McMinnville'. mayor for 17 years, 1,015 to 555, and voters bal loted 1,115 to 898 to defeat an or dinance proposed . by Windishar which.f"would have banned park ings along Baker -street, main street.- " -t Elliott . B.-.. Cummings, Jr, Mc Minnville, and Carl Francis, Day ton attorney and state representa tive for three terms, were nomi nated by-republicans as state rep resentative. They polled 2,795 and 2,589 votes, respectively. Harry F. Williams of Carlton received 2,162 votes. . "-, . ' '' In Hhe democratic race for the house of representatives, Guy Shumway .of McMinnville, only name on 'the ballot,-was checked 1,377 times out . of . about 2,700 democratic votes least. While so many flames were' written in that the tally had, not been completed, it appeared that Dean Holmes, Sheridan publisher, .would be the seconds democratic candidate for the legislature. ;' . . ; 5 - Going down to defeat :by a nar row margin was a -proposed $7,- 500,000 bond, issue to finance county road. construction and re-. pairs. The vote was 4,039,(9,864. Suicide Blast NEW YORK, May 20-(flVDe spondent over the death of her adopted son, a 70-year old widow turned . on the- gas jets in her kitchen earlyriday and sat down, to wait ior deatn. ; It came spectacularly. - A thunderous explosion demol ished her - four-room apartment. jarred the upper east side, show ered a block of Lexington -avenue with glass and debris, and. drove hundreds of. frightened neighbors into the street. . ' Police identified the dead wom an 3 Mrs.' Emmas. Heidelback. ' The National Geographic Soci ety describes the Puerta Del Sol as the Times Square of Madrid, Spain, -i " mm IS W I 1 - wZ . . . u - - . 4 - i j i . (Hi T ICtit cr:T Ti:::t . ct Lvml Cciil. Destroy Payor Vote The Statesman's Mmnlita tahn lation of all . 45 Salem precincts Saturday showed the ' following vote ior mayor: 'NO. : ,.. - - . - , . . Prct. ' Leocks CoUiia MasicraT 1 - 16 - t 89' .3 150 M ' , 3 ' 149 ... - 144 80 4 144 : 87 79 , 5 143 68 v 86 S 117 i 53 ' 72 ' 7 130 . ; 81 43 S' 10S t 76 4S t . 93 1 80 .. 80 la- .154 - M 57 11 , 1H ! 101 40 - 12 I 133 111 , 60 13 ' 129 68 . 78 14 : . . " 163 9S 82 15 v - , 123 81 23 18 8S- 1 bO 45 17 i 99 70 27 : IS ' .: 182. S4 "... 99 19 145 US 70 20 12S 94 69 21 I u 105 41 , 48 22 130 104 S3 23 ' 91 78 43 24 : 159 ! 102 54 23 , 157 ! 137 . , 73 26 167 " h 82 J 62 27 61 j 116 V 57 .28 153 84 . 60 . ' 184 112 i 57 30 r 146 i 93 62 31 97 . 78 45 j 32 95 i 67 53 33 149 . 8 48 . 34 168 105 ,91 33 48 34 ' 37 36 . : " ?r 102 , ,V 60 " 59 i ,37 - 114 71 55' 38 ' . ,137 78 39 39 v 136 113 j 74 40 126 . 42 58 41 . 160 67 ' ' 48 . 42 - ... 89 ' ' 35 1 50 3 . 93- j 51 119 i v 44 ' 115 65 149 45 112 f 62 , 119 : Totals 5771 3715 2824 1 lire Turned Down EUGENE, May 20 Lane county turned 'down a proposed $150,000 measure to improve county roads cut voters approved a measure to raise $150,000 for a county-wide system of earbaee dumping ite and for operation of j ... . . , a juvenile aeienuon nome. . . INCUMBENT DEFEATED PENDLETON, May 2HP)-A TiOtel owner. Morris - Temple." won election as I mayor of Pendleton. defeating the incumbent, Jabin I rvaught, py 82 votes. . ftT m 1 i .... 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The amendment would revise the city charter along the lines of a model charter of the League of Oregon Cities. Since Falls City preftnets in clude both rural and city voters, the board had no way 'Without city poll books of- determining who- was eligible to vote. The special election was void ed; when Calkins refused to give out city ballots. The regular pri mary election was handled with out incident by the Falls City boards. , J FOR COOPER'S JOCKEY UNDERWEAR whim low price! rc" O nff - : MfN.CAriTbl. KIBACKr You'll feel like a queen . , . and look like a princess fn one .of these waffle pique or 80-square percale bolero sunback. dresses. THEY'RE THE TALK OF THE TOWN! In plains, prints, multiolor stripes and every one is a value-packed buy! 12-20. . Penney's Downstairs Store Black ICid Nue Oxford . . . Tops In Footwear New and interesting vamp de tailing ... attractive design . . xaedium-height heel . . Sani tized leather linings . . .' Leather , sole. 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