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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 25, 1951)
i I. lfc.ManIevJones i Scheduled to Talk in Salem Tr. E. Stanley Jones, noted mis- ' aionarv. will appear in Salem next jfall as a part of a planned series j of activities approved by the Salem i Council of : Churches Tuesday Dr. Jones win conduct a preacn jing mission here October 21-28. 1 The mission will be preceeded by a Tisitation evangelism program : October 7-11. Both activities are to : be interdenominational, t Well-known for his missions in j America Dr. Jones spent 27 years as a missionary in India. He has : appeared in Salem several times. ! The local council also agreed to : sponsor a meeting May 2 at the First Presbyterian church, at which two Korean ministers will I speak. They are Dr. Kyung-Chik Han. , pastor at Seoul and head of the ! emergency committee of the Ko- rean National Christian council, j and Dr. Hyungki J. Lew, acting jjblshop of the Korean Methodist church. Both men are on a good ! will mission for Korean p rotes tant ; churches. ; A Council of Churches' mass j meeting will be held the afternoon ; of May 20. The program will be : announced later. Death Claims son John Thomp Statesman New Service j WOODBURN-John C. Thomp ' son died Tuesday morning at. a ! Wood burn hospital after a short j Illness. j He was born Oct. 11, 1881, at Minneapolis, Minn., and came to ! Oregon in 1936" from South Da f kota. He resided at 1079 First st. I tor the past 11 years, i He was a member of the Luth 1 tran church here and a custodian at the Lincoln school and the j Voodburn hospital for many ' years. I Thompson Is survived by his widow, Esther Thompson of Wood burn, Howard of Los Ange- s, t,anr ana John Thompson of lem; daughters, Jean Higeins of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Dora War ren of Springfield, and by seven grandchildren. , Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 pjn. at the Ringo chapel with the Rev. J. W. Carl son officiating. Interment will be at Belle Passi cemetery. Wheat Prices Push Ahead CHIGAGO. April Wheat pushed ahead as much as 3 cents bushel at the Chicago board of f trade today arid ' tarried other i grains ip nigner levels. I New export business, continued I pessimistic reports from the win ter wheat section, and adverse Ko rean war news were the dominat ing factors in trading. At the finish-, wheat was 2Y to I - higher, rcorrr was lt higher, atf were to XYa higher, rye was SJt to 4 higher, soybeans were IV;to 2 cents higher and lard was to 15 cents a hundredweight A Anti-Aircraft t-f AriA1wt "sTlm-m-feS. - v. MowsAkaiii Anothernjovfr for Salem's new est nationiL guard unit, Battery J) of the 722nd antiaircraft artillery battalion, was announced Tuesday. New quarters- still iemporary. will be at the quonset huts just vacated toy; the army reserve, according to L.t. jerry Anderson, commanding officer. The property is on a loan casis. : r ' 'W.,'-. it . m The battery originally in the na tional guard-, armory, has been. a the public school-office building zor about a month. It will be moved Friday to the quonsets at 25th and, Lee streets, where it plans;. to draw its authorized equipment. It was hoped the 90 mm eun will ar rive in mid-May in time for Armedv Forces week. . - - - r. After the guard's .summer en campment, in June, the battery's quarters will be in the former mess hall and one-half of a warehouse on the west aide of McNary field, under arrangement with tho city, hese buildings are being cleaned up now and will be remodeled by a crew from the state adjutant generaxs oepartment. -FENDER EXISTS STOLEN .la vera Hess, ZZ33 park ave complained to city police Tues day night that fender skirts had been stolen from his car while parked on Trad street between and 11 pjn. Coronerf s Jury 5 Hears Evidence S In Accident Case StatMmaa 'New Service INDEPENDENCE, April 24 A coroner's jury heard testimony here tonight in the death of 14- year-old Bruce: Crane, Indepen dence paper carrier, who was kill ed when struck by a car last Satur day morning. -i " - I " : The jury, with J. H. Hart, In dependence, as chairman," decided that the car, driven by David I Simons, 609' Fourth at, was not operated at excessive speed at the time of the 6:15 son. mishap. ' -. There were ho witnesses to the accident, and 1 Simons and his passenger, Harry Simons, said they did not see the boy until he was hit. Seven persons who arrived on the scene shortly after the mis hap offered testimony at tonight's hearing. i a f - . . r - The jury's findings will be turn ed over to the! Polk county dis trict attorney for study Wednes day. . f Solon Points to Atom Threat in Opposing Mac WASHINGTON, April 24 -JPh Senator McMahon (D-Conn.) de clared today that the U. S. capitol may be "blown to smithereens next week" by atomic bombs if this country follows the wrong policy in Asia, f , McMahon, chairman of the sen ate-house atomic energy commit tee, spoke up for the administra tion's policy of limiting the Kor ean war if possible and against Gen. Douglas j MacArthur's pro posals for broader action against the Chinese communists. This new defense of President Truman's policies came after an nouncement was made that the senate inquiry j into MacArthurs dismissal, and the foreign policy issues it raised,! will begin May 3, a week from next ; Thursday. Senate leaders of both parties urged public hearings "as far as possible." McMahon, In today s speech. said Europe must take priority over Asia because of its indus trial development. He declared! that the TJ. S. is not prepared to fight a major war, except in the field of atomic en ergy, while Russia can "drop a number of atomic bombs on American cities today." If U. S. policy i takes a wrong turning in Asia, McMahon declar ed, "This very capitol building. this very senate chamber, may be blown to smithereens next week or the week after." Valley Obituary Statesman News Service Farmer Richard Malone SWEET HOME Farmer Rich ard Malone, t8, a -life-long resi dent of Sweet Home and former hotel owner, died in a Lebanon hospital Sunday. Funeral services were held Tuesday with interment in Nye. cemetery.! Malone was born on the Malone homestead southwest of Sweet Home Nov. 20, 1872. Surviving are the widow, Anna Malone; two sons, Ross and Ray; two grandchildren, Patricia and Ray Malone, all of Sweet f Home." ; ilJ- VdUke . . to Know . You may .have heard that a lawsuit; has j recently been filed by the Antitrust Division in - Washington, D. C. to break up Stapdard of California as well as six ! other West Coast oil companies. Many people have written us protesting this ac tion. Many have asked perti nent ' questions. Wo feel we ' should answer these questions , for everyone. And we do so this way. If you have a question, we urge you to write: "I'd Lrxs to Know" 225 Bush St., San Francisco 20 School Board.. Names 2 New;:. Head Teachers i Two new head teachers: were appointed Tuesday night by the Salem school board for schools sharing district principals. George B. Wright, now educa tion ; director for First Methodist church. ' was employed as head teacher for ' Liberty school! next year. He taught for more than 12 years in Idaho. - - .1 f Mrs.? Bess Thompson, how , at West Salem school, wl. named head teacher for the new Baker school to be built at Saginaw and Lefelle streets. - -i Other teachers hired by the board include Mrs. Pauline; May nard, now: a substitute assigned to ' Richmond school, and F Mrs. Thelma Schirman, who has taught' the past 19 years at Corvallis Both will be elementary teachers."... The board also approved drain age tile installation for Lincoln school. Members planned to take their wives, to a Portland meeting Thursday night where classroom lighting will be displayed by Port land General Electric. Selling Squall Rushes Stock Prices Down NEW YORK, April 2HJP)-A. sudden selling sauall late in the session pushed prices down frac tions to around $l a snare xoaay after the stock market had wav ered uncertainly during the. first four hours of trading. The Associated. Press average of 60 stocks was down 50 cents at $94.60 i and all categories of the market industrials, rails and util ities showed declines. The net result of the day's trad ing was 622 declines and 247 ad vances with a total of 1.128 issues traded. Fifteen issues hit new highs and 55 dipped to new low levels. Mac's Aide Says Commanders Back Use of Nationalists NEW YORK. Anril 24-iVPr-An aide said today Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's desire to throw Chinese nationalists into battle was shared by top army, navy and air com manders in Korea. The spokesman said 14. Gen. Matthew Ridgway, Mac Arthur's successor as. Far Eastern- com mander, went directly to the Pen tagon with such a proposal ap parently soon after he got his first look at the situation in Korea. "As far as I know, there has been no shift in the opinion of any military leader on the scene," ad ded Maj. Gen. Courtney Whitney, personal advisor to MacArthux." Whitney said all senior officers in the Far East, including Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer o the air force, and vice admiral Charles Turner Joy of the navy, also favor ed the use of Chiang Kai-shek's troops against Chinese reds on the mainland. I i . . . . . j "Eton Mitch; .wmjieffion' os tGneiro aoirain)g inniapp (DID .C(Qpi)paOuD$ Public Invited to Watch Interior . Decorating Class . i Adult education 'class In Interior decorating is working with a kit produced by the Alexander Smith Drug Co. in its final two sessions of the year, George Porter, direc tor has announced. ! . The kit, furnished by the de partment of public education, in cludes samples' of rugs and drap-" ery material, charts, color schemes for interior decorating and a pre pared lecture. , v f Porter said the public' is invited to attend the final class in the subject and view; the kit next Monday night at 7:15 o'clock in room 206 of the Salem high school building. FSA Suggests PubKc Health Units WASHINGTON, April 24-UP)-The federal security agency sug gested today the formation of 17 local public health units in Oregon to cover all the state's 36 counties. : To staff these units, the agency recommended a minimum of 31 physicians and 274 nurses, j The pattern was suggested In a publication the FSA said is de signed to show how regional plan ning would enable general hos pitals and local health departments to work together for better health in every community. ; In mapping out health unit areas the agency says they are each designed to serve a population of no less than 35,000 and are drawn to fit the pattern of existing or proposed hospitals and health cen ters. j The units suggested for Oregon, the counties they would serve and the minimum number of physic ians and nurses recommended in clude: Unit 5: Marion, 2 physic ians, 15 nurses unit 6, I .inn, 1 bhysician, 10 nurses; unit 7 Ben- on, Lincoln, Polk, 1 physician, II nurses.- for States L00 Sheriffs j Reservists j Commissioned One hundred sheriffs reserves, representing most Marion county towns, were commissioned Tuesday night in public ceremonies at the SUverton - armory with Marion County Sheriff Denver Young: ad ministering: the oath. j The reserves. , who have com pleted three months training in civil defense work, are members oi : reserve companies at saiem, Woodburn, Silverton and Stayton. '.' Emergency equipment includ ing bulldozers, portable power i nitnmnt wax rtimla'v(l trri th Silverton, company, host for: the commissioning rites. The equip ment, owned by members of the company, would be used in emer gency until regular disaster units filled in. : Principal address was delivered by Clifford Snyder, Portland, mem. ber of the governor's advisory board for civil defense. Among those present were Marion County Judge Rex Hartley, Commissioner E. L. Rogers, CoL Mark Hillary, Capt. Wallace Wharton, Mayor Er rol Ross of Silverton, Police Chief Clyde A. Warren of Salem, : and Maurice Schnorenberg. civil de fense director for Silverton. i Society to Hear Talk on Subversive Activities M. R. Bacon and Robert Beau- belle, -members of the American Legion's anti-subversive activi ties committee, will be the prin cipal speakers at the annual meet ing of the Federation of Patriotic Orders tonight at the Senator ho tel. I Officers of the order will ! also be elected at the banquet meeting starting at 6:30 pjn. "Plans for; Me morial day observation will be discussed. William Exline I will preside In the absence of Mel Clemens, order president, who was recalled for navy duty last Feb ruary. TODAY j is Roast PrimoJUbs of Beef i AU JUS Day Dancing in the Burgundy Room HarnrF. Wood, attorney of Olympla, Washington, writes: "What type of competition does actually, exist among the major oil companies? Price? Service? Research? If if 9 research, we should find one company t. The answer to intense in all operations. In o0f operations may Competition starts in production, getting crude mt of the ground. Oil companies (both largo and small) first explore, then bid for rights to land where oil may exist. Competition fat efficiency then begins. Ways must be found to make weus produce at costs low enough to meet market prices. - Competition In nsosrch exists indeed. That's why two gallons of today's gasoline, for example, do the work that took thrm si generation ago. A company must keep pace or lose out. As for differences between brands of oil: atomic - energy Is now being used to measure engine wear as ltccurs. It reveals that our new motor oil reduces wear as ranch as ons-hsif, as compared with conventional oils. ' Qerico lvith Millaif Flight to Oakland : Guido Clerico, manager of : the Marion hotel, joined the J. R. Mil lar group Tuesday in a flight to Oakland, Calif., in Millar's own DC-3. Clerico is to return later in the week. - Millar, president of 1 National Automotive Fibres, flew here Mon day on .his annual inspection of Oregon Flax Textiles plant, an NAF subsidiary. He was accom panied ' by nine California and eastern businessmen. Release from Jail Shortlived Kay M. Barclay, Brooks, was back behind bars . Tuesday, little more than 24 hours after his re lease from the Oregon' state peni tentiary. . Barclay was being held In the city Jail on a charge of vagrancy following his arrest by city detec tives in connection with an : at tempt to pass a check at a down town Salem store Tuesday after- noon. Detective Wayne Parker said additional charges would be placed against Barclay today. Parker -said Barclay was released from the prison Monday morning after serving a term for obtaining money by false pretenses in 1948. RIGHT NOWI And It's RIOT Of LAnghs Comedy! Pros Thrilling Co-Hit! "CUSTOMS AGENT" J (Just Before Ton Get to WE are: SERVING LUNCH Choose From Our Famous Chinos and American Dishes 2055 Fairgrounds Road mm CT7 this question is much the same for the oil mdustry as for most others. Competition id STANDARD OIL COnPAHY OF CALIFORNIA i J. r r O ( ddified Modification of water depart ment rules on irrigation! rates was ordered Monday by City Admin istrator J: L. Franzen in view of the present limited water -storage capacity for Salem. The order cuts-" from irrigation rates water consumers outside the city limits and those inside the city who use water . for business purposes only.' '6 - It was pointed out in the order that some .business houses have been making irrigation rates appli cable to water used only for busi ness purposes. :.'! j The new rule will be effective for the irrigation season this year ana in subsequent years. Starts Today Open C:4S ' Co-Feature! "DARK CTTY" With Lizabeth Scott i RIGHT NOW! the Hollywood Stoplights) .. DINNER! Open: 11 A. M. to 2 A.M. Saturdays to 3 A. M. Phone 2-6596 be grouped under four broad headings ... Competition continues In refining. Again each company must make the operation pay. A plant most produce prod nets as good as or better than those of other refiners, at prices as low as then or fit 3 A- m. wiu prouuci uiaer not gooa And competition shows) up clearly where our products are told. This does, in part, take th form of service. (Wher ever you find Chevron gasolines, yon find a man making good on our promise, "We take better care of your car.") But again; this competition is also competition In price. To j get and hold bosineas, every seller most maintain quality fct products and service, and hold his prices down to meet o titers. v; EafstSalem Liond ! Hear Sen; Holmep J - ;i!' . f . i " j ;1 The length of the current legis lative session Indicates the "consci entious work and feeling off re sponsibility on the part of the leg islators,". Sen. .D. Holmes of Astoria, told the East Salem lions club Tuesday night j I He spoke at the club meeting In the Senator hotel. 4 I Election of club officers "will take place at the May 1 meeting: 1 1 w r KO7 CnOWIG! Open :45 - Starts 7:1 Kay MlTland . Hedy Lamarr ' Macbonald Carey . In Technicolor . ."Coppor Canyon" - L- -4 , Bine Coisbr . . Nancy Olson "Mr. Muilc- 19 Crb S Mat. Dally from 1P.M. i Newt A keal Fun-Fesil $mm 1 WvHsT J i Open 6:45 EyM. MOW SHOWING! 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