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6 -The Statesman. Sclem, Oregon. Thursday. October 28. 19S0 -1 kjml service Fireman Exam Slated Nov. 10 Civil service examinations for Salem firemen, battalion chiefs and, an assistant fire chief . will b conducted at city hall Novem ber 10, it vras ordered Wednesday by . the dty civil . service com mission. , . ' The entrance and two promo tional tests will ' be held simul taneously. Following written tests , is the morning, applicants will be examined orally in the afternoon. The assistant chiefs job, a re cently created post, has been fill ed by E. L. Smith under tem porary appointment from Fire Chief W. P. Jtoble. Under civil service requirements of a year's service in next lower rank, only Smith and Battalion Chief Robert Mills are eligible to take the ex aminatioa." ' ' -. . Captains .with a year's service are eligible to take the -battalion chiefs 'examination. Uo previous experience is necessary for appli cants for ordinary firemen s posts. urreasutf Turnover Turnover 'is increasing 'in both Ere and police departments, it was indicated in reports received by Chairman .w,.J. Entress and Commissioners Kenneth C Perry sd Monroe -Cheek. Military - service has : created vacancies in "both departments and has depleted .a "lire 'depart ment -eligible Jut which has Just been exhausted, it was reported. Both departments recently have made temporary (non civil ser vice) appointments to plus the San. New firemen on temporary status are .Robert Andresen, Wil liam Went and Earl Benz. Bra mt PaUee-Chief New policemen -are William H.' Bales. Warren L. Barrett and William I. Warren. The latter is son , of Police Chief Clyde War ren.! , : Policemen and firemen tolnt imto military service retain their cavil service standing under leave from the commission. Vacancies thus created can be filled only by temporary appointees, so the Jobs Tcmma for the returning servicemen. The commission started a new study of one phase of the turn-' . over situation after Fire Chief Boble suggested "that seniority .credit be allowed for such tem porary service. -He cited the re cent emnorary promotion of Rob-! ert P. Mobley -to cantain from a promotion eligible list -after Jim PI Kail went into service. The chief recommended that Mobley getcredit for his captain's ser vice' even thoueh he may later luve to .relinquish the post to HalL IVeic usMwn Adds to PGE Distribution Z. The U. -S. imported 8,000.000 pounds of mustard seed in 1948. mmmmmmmmm ml mm n II , : . " ..Mil Olitlfl i Portland General Electric has completed this new 1288,000 substation, located en the black bounded by Liberty. Jefferson, Sooth and 4th streets. PGE Completes New Substation A new $236,000 substation of the Portland General Electric company has been completed in ISalem, Fred G. Starrett, Willam ette valley division manager, an nounced Wednesday. The facility occupies an entire block bounded by Liberty. 4th, Jefferson and South streets and will serve the Hollywood district and an area bounded by Jeffer son, Center and Capitol streets and North River road. Construction of lhe substation which is now operating, began in June of 1049. Final work con sisted of landscaping and install ation of sprinkling systems. Starrett said the substation, served by 57,000 volt lines. Is the most important addition to elec tric distribution facilities in Salem In many years. Chatas Caterer At Senator Hotel Frank Chatas. former Salem Testauranteur, today will assume the catering management of the Senator hotel, in charge of -all its food services. Owner W. W. Chad- wick announced Wednesday. Chatas replaces Ed Peters, who has resigned after gtng the Senator restaurant lor the past two years and several years as a Salem chef. The new manager operated the former Quelle res taurant here for several years. fTEAMSTEES WIS ELECTION PORTLAND. Oct. 25 JP- AFL. teamsters, rejected in several previous votes, Tuesday won the right to represent workers in six plants of the Hood River Apple Growers association. r- .... IPaMflc USecardo At Salem Schools By Gilbert Batesen Itttwrnu Scbool Comapaodcat MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATIONS Thomas Douglas Stuart, 20, bak er, 1417 N. Liberty st, Salem, and Emma Grace Fry, 19, beautician, Turner route 1, box 138C PROBATE COURT ' Albert L. Collins estate: Final order closes estate. Emma- Murphy Brown estate: Pinal order closes estate. Carl Martin Hamre estate: Or der" accepts resignation of Mary Hamre and appoints Pioneer Trust company as administrator. Ellen Canada estate: Order for partial distribution. . Harriett Ryan estate: Order ap proves final account and closes estate, r Lewis Franaklin Ford ruard- ianship: Order discharges guard ian ana directs money in account given to ward. - ' W. R. Hornbuckle estate: Ap praised at $4,049, hearing on final account set for November 27. ' Cornelius Buchanan, sr.. estate: Order admits wfH to probate and appoints Mamie B. Holt as ad ministratrix with the will annexed. Florence E. Norton estate: Hear ing on final account set for No vember 27. James R- Watson estate: Ap praised at 81,449.92. DISTRICT COURT Robert Elliott Wilson, Lebanon, cnargea wim soaomy, waived pre liminary hearing, held to answer to grand jury, held on $5,000 bail. CIRCUIT COURT v J. W. Copeland yards vs Samuel J. and Frances Jones: Complaint 1 seeks Judgment of $318.59 alleged ly aue on note. -Ervin John Hardy vs Dorcas Jeannette Hardy: Divorce decree to plaintiff awards defendant custody of minor child, with plain tiff to pay 450 monthly support money, awards each party half ownership of real property, awards defendant ownership of personal property. Georgia Delaney vs Francis De laney: Complaint for divorce al leging cruel and inhuman treat ment seeks ownershin of furni ture, $75 monthly alimony and res- torauon ot piamtuxs maiden name of Georgia Tobey. Married Oct Z7, 1948, at Silverton. Flora Jane Crowder vs Wal lace E. Crowder: Complaint for divorce alleging cruel and inhu man treatment seeks ownership of lurmiure ana asics defendant be warded ownership of auto. Mar ried Feb. 1L 1948, at Vancouver, rrtUkU. Betty McFadden vs Patrick Mc- raaaen: jjeienaant liles answer and cross-complaint for divorce ftueging cruel and inhuman treat ment and seeks custody of three minor children. Bert Hoyt vs Harold M. and I. M. Rodkey: Order confirms sale ox property. - Clarence S. Hammett vs Minnie ttammett: Order awards defend ant $100 monthly support -money proaing max 01 suit and permits defendant to cash savings bonds. f 'O Where would Oregon and the less populous Western states be today had not the U.S, Con stitution wisely provided a na tional BALANCED PLAN, giving ch Mtat two senators and apportioning the House by population?. Tht Oregon Balanced Plan follows the same time-tested American principle. TAXI APPCST!C:23T cut cf pcirntj Doot be aaiakd by pedal Intcreats who hope to control the legttatur for their own adfiah coda, The Balanced Plan k endorsed bv... Onsoa JummI. Oravaa VoMr. Ontoa Wmrm Ttmum Ftdermoem, Tooag Kcpuh. VOTE 314 X YES The junior class at Salem high has decided to sponsor a Europ ean war orphan. One hundred dollars a year will be given by the juniors to the Foster Parents Plan for War Children. The money is to be spent to support some needy child in- Europe. The child will receive food, clothing, shelter, education and live in a home-like atmosphere. Junior Class President John Bone conceived the idea for the class to engage in the project and the class council endorsed it All juniors will be asked to contribute five cents a month for the war child. They will received a pic ture of their charge and his case history. Although the sponsor can ex press a preference as to the sex of the child, Bone reported that the juniors asked for the most urgent case available. SALEM HIGH SCHOOL School Writers te Confer Eight Salem high school Jour nalism students and their adviser will attend the 24th annual Ore gon High School Press conference on the University of Oregon camp us Saturday. Students from Salem high at tending will be Doreen Cavender, Ann Gilbert. Beth WendL Dennis Fieke, Judi Wood, Rosemary Row ell, Leans Strode, Joanne Swallow. Accompanying the group will be Mrs. Leah Hogue, Clarion advisor, who is president of the Oregon Association of Journalism Adviser. Highlighting the conference will be a speech entitled "What Korea Means to You" by Dr. Paul C Dull, an expert on far eastern affairs. Tnere will be several student con ferences and panels. Scaeel Cleanup Planned , Civics club decided at a Wed nesday meeting to launch a long range program to improve the ap pearance of the school by organiz ing a campaign to pick up waste paper. The program Includes an as sembly and an inter-club contest. Definite plans will be revealed at a later date. "Hashers" Serve Dinner The members of Arthur Cotton chapter of Hi-Y had a dinner cook ed for them by their 'hashers Wednesday evening preceding their meeting. The "hashers," girls elected by the club for such duties are Leadel Davis, Billie Miller and Norma Hamilton. They were as sisted by Mrs. Hal Peterson, wife of the club's adviser. RICHMOND SCHOOL Larry Merk, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Merk, 720 S. 25th Bt is the newly elected student body presi dent at Richmond school. Other student body officers are: Vice president, Jim Seely; secretary, Nancy Ladd; treasurer, Judy Bak er; sergeant-at-arms, Ann Case. WASHINGTON SCHOOL A group of girls from Washing ton were presented with 4-H club awards Wednesday at an assembly by James Bishop, city club agent. Receiving awards were Joan Marsh, Marilyn' Page,' Marilyn Rehm. Sharon Pendleton, Karla Henderson, Judy - Powers, Carol Whitman, Lois Gardner, Pat Dou glas, Mary Clark. Providing musical entertainment were these sixth grade girls: Kar la Henderson, Sharon Pendleton, Darlene Goodman, Florins Stein, Judy Larson. ENGLEWOOD 8CHOOL An assembly was presented by Mrs. Anderson's fifth grade on "the wind that thought It could blow out the moon." Cast as the wind was Jim McCaffery and as the moon Judy Rieman. British Lose Hotps In Red Shanghai v SINGAPORE -V British hotel owners in Shanghai are forfeiting their hotels owned for generations by their families, rather than bring in fresh capital to keep them go ing, says Mrs. Jessie Ferguson, a Shanghai resident for 27 years. who is now on her way back to England. Foreign residents found It ex tremely difficult to. live iin the Red-held city, she said. Business was .slack. There was only one guest in a 15-floor skyscraper. Ho tel owners had to pay heavy tax ation, to the Communist covern- ment a policy designed to get rid of the foreign investor so the Reds could take over, she said. r , "ho NorOlaboctt; ' ' end AflcsExa offened CP.'JZ'i Do Garong" Thursday JUU :4d p. m. McKay Says Flegel Using Smear Tactics PORTLAND, Oct 25-WVGov. Douglas McKay accused State Sen. Austin Flegel tonight of telling a "plain, deliberate, intentional falsehood" when Flegel said the governor Is influenced by special interests and pressure groups. "Political decency in Oregon has reached a new low In the claims of candidate Flegel . . . that the present fish and game commissions are a political foot ball," the governor said in a ra dio (KEX) campaign address. Governor McKay , also charged that Flegel. the democratic op ponent in the governor's reelection contest, would put In a spoils system If he were elected. The governor said he would "do my best to keep Mr. Flegel's kind of politics out of Oregon." The governor said he has giv en the people "an administration whose Integrity is beyond ques tion." Sound Financing He said the people asked for sound finances and a balanced budget, and he provided them. "We have avoided here the epi demic of deficit spending that has crippled many states," the gover nor said. , The governor declared that, if be is reelected, he couldn't reduce taxes because of the rising cost of government. But he promised to be economical. Governor McKay said that In the two years he has been gover nor, more has been done to mod ernize state institutions than in any similar period of the state's history. Increase In Welfare "You asked for increases In public welfare and for a Tnnm,m monthly payment of $50 for old age assistance. In June, 1948, these payments averaged S43.88. In June of this year, the average monthly payment had been increased to 53.B9,n the . governor said. "You asked for a program -that would team labor and industry in umiumg uregon," he continued. Cancer Fund Benefit Dance to Feature Magic, Acts, Costumes Two orchestras, magic entertainment, two or three 'special acts from Portland and prizes for costumes will be on deck for the Damon Runyon (anti-cancer) benefit dance Saturday night. TV nuiiuuuwiaeiii qi me program came zrom we aiem aerie 208 1 AU Eagles lodge, sponsors.. Memorial fund, sponsors Bids Sought on Nine Salem Traffic Signals Bids for installation of traffic signals at nine intersections on Pin Liberty and Commercial streets in Salem will be opened November 10 at a state highway commission meeting in Portland. ' The commission recently auth orized $12,500 for Installation of the signals which will be part of the one-way street system called for by the Baldock plan. Ultimately traffic lights will be placed every three blocks on one way sections of Commercial, Lib erty, Court, Chemeketa, Capitol, and either Summer or Winter streets except in downtown Salem where they will be installed ev ery block. On November 10 the commis sion also will open bids in Port land for construction of Carlton bridge over the North Yamhill river in Yamhill county. The bridge will, be a reinforced con crete viaduct, 410 feet long. . net nroceedx are in an. tn t declare. The dance, with a ' Halloween motif, will be at the Eagles hall from 9 p m. to l a. nv Orchestras will be Al Moffitt and his Bluesbusters and the Won der Valley Boys, Magician acts will be provided at intermissions by Johnny Hale. . Costumes are optional but priz es will be given for the best, spon sors announced.' "While industrial strife has han dicapped and retarded other sec tions of the country, Oregon has remained singularly free from in dustrial disputes. The prestige of the governor's office has been used to encourage labor-management harmony. t Governor McKay also said, lie launched an "aggressive program of resource conservation," taking steps to end stream pollution, re planting forest areas, developing fish and game resources, and ouuaing new mgnways. The National Geographic Sod ety, says, the, first jury trial tn Anglo-Saxon1 America Tesufted la capt. John Smith's collecting 2 DO pounds for slander In 1607. HIGHER POTENCY B-12 LOWER COST TO YOU I WthB CmiHAL MBICAPS Hm Sufficizit Vitamin B-12 and FoSc Add in OHE tepsub r L u 1 ' 1 urn m to Combat Fatigue "Nerves91 'and Ilutritioml Anemia v Bottle f 31 1 S.gfl Bottle ef 100 SloIOO For SPECIAL CASES where liver and Iron are needed, ask for RUBI- CAFS WITH IXVXK. AND IKON, bottle ef 50 ; , annnnannnnnannnaaaanaaasaaaaaSaMaa3 ' - . t . 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