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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1951)
lTh& Statesmcnr. a!eru Ortysx Tuesday Ascst 21, 1S31 Mexican Gulf Feels Effects Of Hurricane NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 20-C3VA tropical hurricane called "Char He" bv the weather bureau threatened to recover its power in the lower Golf - ef Mexico tomgnt azter olunring across the Yucatan pen insula with 1 100 nuTe-an-hour winds. - The tame ftcbnknied 108 people mnr dan am in Jamaica. The peninsula, ISO-miles wide, sticks 200 miles up into the full on the Central American goose neck connecting North and South America. - ; " ! Marina, eanttal of the Mexican state of Yucatan, was swept by the 100 mile-an-hour winds but reported no great damage. Resi dents of Isla Mu Seres, a small is- - land on the east side cf the penin- m . a suia -ana ; outer points in we storm's path, took to the streets last night in panic as the storm . seared, v i "' " "Vr Nnhnd ws resorted hurt in Its 250-mile sweep over Yucatan, nor did scattered ; reports ox damage estimate toe storms aesxrucuon. Dewey Sees 'More Peace Offensive- - SEATTLE, Aug. 20 -W- New York's Cor. Thomas Dewey, -back from a seven-week "non pvUucar tour of the Orient, said today Russia may wage a two year peace offensive so it can go on "picking daisies.' The 1944-48 republican presi dential candidate told a press con- 'ferenee his -picking daisies re tnsrk referred to long-range So viet aims for expansion in Burma, Eiam and other Asiatic countries. He said Europe and Asia can not be considered separately and critical decisions throughout the Far East la the next few months "may decide whether we will live In a free world five yean hence." Dewey said no one cation alone can save the free world. "It will take a cooperative, uni fied effort." j The GOP leader asserted his flying trip to the Orient was not political. He described it as a "pri vate, fact-finding expedition. Dewey arrived by plane from Honolulu and was met at the Seattle-Tacoma International air port by Washington Republican Gov Arthur B. Langlie. He was to be an overnight guest at the governor's mansion in Olympia, 43 miles souths -The New Yorker is scheduled to leave early tomorrow for a week's tour of Alaska, which he said he regarded as a key to America's defense. He will head homeward from Anchorage, Alaksks, August 28. - r j- ..:., Dewey declined to answer any questions on, his political future. He said his major ambition, is to help weld a strong foreign policy that will cement the free nations of the world, j RollingTruck Smashes Car Considerable damage to a parked auto was reported by city police when a parked truck rolled back ward down a hill on South Com mercial street oear Owens street, shortly before" noon Monday. Eugene Charles Garrison, Salem route z box 358G, was cited to ap pear in municipal court today on a charge of failure to provide ade quate emergency brakes on a mo tor vehicle. The auto, owned by Fred M. Shafer, 650 Shipping st, was badly damaged In the left front fender, headlamp, grille and hood, police reported. Neither auto was occupied at the time of the acci- 4 Injured in Brooks Wreck BROOKS Four persons were injured Monday night in a two car collision north of here Mon day night, state police reported. Injured and in Salem General hospital last night were Mrs. El sie Rhodes, 1209 Court st. with shock and possible fractured right ankle; Earl Brown. 1710 S. 12th st, severe lacerations about the face and head; Charles H. La Fleme, Brooks route 1, shock and slight lacerations, and Mrs. T-fna . LaJleme, his wife, possible inter nal injuries and possible fractur ed knees. t- m None of tha: injuries were be lieved to be critical. The injured were brought to Salem by City Ambulance service. , t vTEMATCHEE TON'S VANCOUVER, B.C. Aug. 29 -(CP)- (Nisht game)? Wena tehee . 204 200 1008 12 2 Vancouver . 220 002 002 g IS S Breislnger and Lake; Gunnar son. Smith (4); White (7). Barta (7) and Ritchey. , " 7cr.i;0 P. fl-l'kcrs H:!J 1 Vr Joh:;:jy puicg iv y,; L'.:trna:!snt!!y Knw Unsurpassed Vtrrs::t sall-.Vvs; YAiarjiA csAri I 4 ? i. i GATES Gas masked-attired workers from the Consolidated Bonders Ine, are shewn removing dead salmon last weekend free the Saattam river near here. The bloated fish, killed when ammonia was damped into the river ten days age below Detroit dam by CBL have drifted dawn the river as far as' Mehama. Residents fat the area report the stench from the fish te be earryin abeat a quarter ef a tnlie. The fish were baa-led along the banks ef the river. (Statesman phete by Chariea Ka firman, ) ers Hospitalized After Accident S i 1 i 5 Two teen-age i boys were hos pitalized Monday night when the motorcycle they were riding! went off the road one Wilsonville straightaway, earth of Hubbard, state police reported.' Duane Beard, 13, Silverton, was in Silverton hospital last night with! a broken t arm and badly lacerated face and mouth, and Don Berney, Canby, driver of the cycle, was In Canby hospital with a brok en arm and leg Injuries, police sald.1 ' . ' Both boys were taken to Canby by a! passing motorist, then Beard was brought to Silverton by Canby ambulance, police said. i Widening off Intersections At Stayton Due ' Five street tnteresectlons in Stayton will be widened at a cost estimated at $2,000, the state high way commission decided at a Port land meeting Monday, 1 Half the cost of the work will be paid by the city of Stayton under an agreement , , - f A contract was tentatively let to Warren Northwest, Inc4 for paving about mile of highway in Sweet Home. The low bid en tered; by the firm was 120,317. The city of Sweet Home must concur in the contract before work can proceed. ... Man Get Up I LONG BEACH, Calif, Aug. 10-()-ecause be weighs as much as four ordinary men, it took just mat many to put Eugene Atkins, 20, back on his feet after a chair collapsed under him today. Atkins weighs fc82 pounds.? HIS friends couldn't get him to his feet so they called the fire department The firemen managed to maneuver the huge man to the edge f the back! porch where he swung his legs over the side and got his feet on the ground, j Atkins, bruised slightly, walked bacK ?mto the nottse. , - . Bos Ice Cream! Capacity Diie for Serious Testing '' ST4 LOUIS, Aug. 20 -tfV How much; ice cream can a small boy eat in: one month! ' Given time, sven-y ear-old Charles Gibson will have an an swer to the question. ' I Charlie found a sack containing $250, Which had been dropped by an employe of an Ice cream com pany. For turning it in, Charlie will receive all the ice cream be and bis family can eat for a month. - ! Wasting" no time, . Charlie i ap peared at the main office of j the company today and started col lecting his reward tVHIcgi Inn 1. Harry Rcod Trip turday, Ao;vrt 25ihJ -; Cover Chars ; f Salmon Harvest N etc Silverton Fires , Under Control Statassaaa Kaws Service SILVERTON Two fires in this area were reported under control tonight after a four-hour battle by fire-fighters. One fire was In debris at the old Bush Creek flax plant two miles west of Silverton and the other was at the Floyd Fox ranch in the Drift Creek area nine miles southeast of here. No details of damage were available last night Old Interstate Bridge Ruled PORTLAND. Aug. 20-WVThe Oregon highway commission and Washington department of high ways decided today that the Inter state bridge between Portland and Vancouver, Wash, will "satisfac torily carryT traffic until about After that another bridge, prob ably a low-level span parallel to the present bridge will have to be built, the two agencies reported alter a -meeting here today. - Five construction programs were studied , by the two groups. They ranged from a parallel i bridge which would cost an estimated $62,000,000. . The Washington study said that some 31,000 vehicles traveled the present bridge each day. Bridges, other than the proposed parallel one, would funnel off only 4,000 to 11,500 vehicles, the study con tinued. f .'...; The Washington department said it plans to construct the Van couver freeway in the near future which will provide adequate ap proach facilities to the present bridge on the Washington side. Allies Smash to (jest of Hills U.S. EIGHTH ARMY HEAD QUARTERS, Korea, Tuesday, Aug. 21 -(A1)-Allied infantry smashed to the crests of a hill mass on the eastern Korean front Monday and continued early today to battle for the remaining ridges. South Korean troops made the biggest gains. On the central front, Chinese reds attacked in company strength but were hurled back. AUied fighter bombers pound ed the western Korean rail system which converges on Pyongyang, &orean communist capital. . . FD2EMAN SUCCUMBS EUGENE. AaaV20'-ffr Clair Beagle, about 50, a volunteer fire man, collapsed and died toda after fighting a house fire at Mar cola, 15 miles northeast of here. He died while drinking a. bottle of pop at a nearby store. U Sets trevieg Cawfeay . teleav Cvejea atisfactorv "1 G3CDLCZ ins d. F. c::zmcn cgizphot cm fc l:rri:u ca zzi Tc:i, 2 pzi h 5 r-n.. ,b$$?T,tn? ca r ecrTlca taea la our service department. Good adcry csd wcrUL'j cozZIIzzm nZZx tca!Iest crpor tIss Izr drxzzzzzzzzl izx ca fcd:tissa end .v-rma Style Fir Brings Near-Record Price in Douslas fir brousht " a near- record hhzh nrlce of S47 a thou. sana Monday when the bureau of una management in saiem sold 3.150.000 board feet of timber near Prairie mountain to high bidder T. J. starker of Corvallis. Starker paid 1133.777 for the tract south of Alsea, appraised at $82,243. Bidding In the oral auc tion was spirited until Corvallis Lumber Co, only other bidder, dropped out with a $132,937 bid. District Forester RndnOT Vhr said the only recent western Ore gon price topping this was a $48.50 Price paid last vear. Th tract sold yesterday included other spe- cies man me nr. In other sales Mondav. two hlA ders got tracts at the aTmra!sd Price. Willamette Vallev Lumber Co. of Dallas took 8,560,000 board leet in Linn county near Snow peak for $184,871. Glenn E. Park, Estacada. paid $979 for 135.000 board feet in CUckamas county soutn oz squaw mountain. Next sales will be OctAh a: an oral auction, and October 9, sealed oias, rtij saia. Polio Fatal To Dallas Boy tatessaaa Kaws lentee DALLAS Bruce Roland Jan- zen, 7, DaBas resident for two years, died of polio Sunday at Doernbecker hospital in Portland after an illness of two days. ' He earn tn DaTlaa fmm Rem- tie two years ago with his parents, jot. ana Mrs. Abraham Edward Janzen, Dallas route 1, box 243. He was born March 28, 1944, at Seattle. Survivors are his riarmtc W ther, Keith Janzen; grandparents, Mr. and Mr r W Rnth Tn. and Mrs. Anna Janzen, Yakima, nuo. -Funeral aaruL'f a tn .Iiih.' Bollman funeral hnm. rksTia. will be beld at 100 a. m. Wed nesday at Salt Creek Baptist church. Burial will be ,at Salt ueex cemetery. NEWLY AJR-CONDITIONED "Salem's Only Hame-Owsed -.. Theatre" -J M1NAMsehasMaKaaaaaMsaakxaaBiawaaMaKKB' Ends Today Open f:4S . Donald O'Connor la i DOUBLE CKOSSBONES"; la Technicolor Flua "AIK, CADET r Starts Toraorrew Open t:45 JV CLTNM gSMONO ! C FQIlD-OTIUEIk i ! r Co-Feature . TTIS ELUE LAGOON In Technlceler m a. w m w- Jet CrasKes : into Truck, ll Soldiers Die FOOT DEC. N. J- Aug. 20-HV A jet training plane, fighting far altitude jrtyxnd into a truck full of soldiers at the' edge of McGuire air base today, killing 11 men and Injuring 22. .. r r. .;-a,M: xht plane bounced off the truck and plowed on into a woods where the ground soldiers had been train ing. Both the truck and the plane caught Gre and burned fiercely. .; The tired soldiers were just starting hack to Fort Dix for supper-. As they climbed into the truck they iaw the plane bearing down on them at tremendous speed. Be fore tney could Jump clear. It plowed into them, showering the truck with blazing jet fuel. Army authorities said the two air force officers H the plane were killed instantly. Eight GIs on the ground cued m the crash. Of the 20 injured, 16 were treated at the post hospital for minor burns and injuries and released. The other four were detained, three of them in critical condition. The plane gouged a 200-yard path through the woods. The crash happened about 2.000 feet south east of the air base. Salem Marines Due Home From Korea Four Salem marines and several others who were called from re serve to active duty a year ago returned Monday, veterans of the war in Korea. Among troops aboard the USS Montrose when it docked in San Diego were S. Sgt Leroy V. Allen, 2085 Berry st; S. Sgt. George R. Crump, Sgt. Duane Isaacson. 421 Gerth st, and Sgt. Edwin J. Bar nard, 268S Fisher jd all of Salem. others among the 30 Oregon marines aboard included Sgt. Jack Courtney of Newberg, Sgt. Joe Stone, Sweet Borne, S. Sgt. Rob ert L. Newell, Molalla. Idle Loggers to Harvest Crops Lumber and logging workers whose activities have been cur tailed by the continued dry weath er Monday were urged by the state employment service to take their families Into the orchards. bean fields and hop yards to help save the crops. "Local employment offices re port a shortage of at least 8000 workers,'" Earl a. Lovell, director of the employment service, said. He said loggers and lumber work ers out of work have a fine op portunity to earn many extra dol lars. Main labor shortages, Lovell said, are in the Willamette val ley. He declared the Salem office could ; use 1000 bean pickers at once and 3000 bop pickers wltnin the next two weeks, while Eugene, Lebanon and McMlnnville areas are short of help. 1 ! Free water and Hood River are asking for help in their. orchards while the Gresham area east of Portland ! wants 200 blackberry nickers. Lovell said camps ana Housing are available In many sections but inquiries should ' be made of the nearest local employment offices before moving far afield Thur. Aug. South 23th Street Across from Airport Stiiti'm R8 1351 Eiltlii Sr mUioh rsATvecs Evan CHILS ST Mtm tl Hew Air-Yg&tiisUd Tent, Ttienty Dsgrces CccIgrThsatYgf Betsrc Urged Help Ir! Ci.215 fi 0:15 STZi Cbelc reserved arandstaad chair tickets, tad. admiattioa and a3 tax new avxilatle, 234) and XLC3 te EVESY0N2. (Unreserved seat tieketa, AD ULTS 2L59; CUJLDEN ?5e.) TXCHZTS ON SALS - - AT ' FHID JMSYEH 1 NerGa Liberty Record Concert " Planned Toniglit At Statehouse Last of the summer record con certs in Wfflson park will be held tonight from the west steps of state capitol building from 8 to 1 p,m, it was announced by Louis Dubuy, operator of the phono graph. ' Scheduled for toniaht is light ing of Waite Memorial fountain during the program. - , Music wia be recordings of band. music, selections by Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza. 'Show Boat selections, organ music, medley from Walt Disney's "Alice in Wonderland", and popular num bers. -- -' : - ' - Heiders record shop has fur nished records for the programs, DuBuy said, m LAST DAT! Disheaorsble"Fi Teresa" Doers Open .. iiEu Tononnowr MADCAPS OF RUTH 1 MAKSON . 11USSEY MARSHALL . ADDED COLOR CA1TOON "Symphony la Slaag "Yarieties On Farade1 r M SMta 'X. :j DOT fee ' -Mt ftl- i . . Wl 1- i ij -i a. ,1 Ut. 1 1 1 1 1 m a , 11 1 " ' -.' LAST PAY1I -t " ' . --',;'. ! """""l Contmnous from iiEu Tononnoni j , THEY'RE FEUD1I1 HILLBILLIES NOW! r-, 1.1. mi-rrimm. 1 j: J-' Iy 9 - 1 111 ' Jso Toss & Jssxy Native of Marion; County Dies at 97 WALLA WAiXAj Aug. 20 -JFh The daughter of pioneers of the 1840s. . a native of Marion county. Ore .7 died Sunday; She- was Mrs. C H. Day, n;. . -: k- She was born Lora Alma da Rees, on Sept. 12. 1853. Her father came west in 1884 with the Whitman train and : her mother the next year. !v; I .? i ' ; : Sixty-nine years ago she 'moved to Dayton, Wash, which contin ued to be her home. ! Parcdisa V&zzis f Swimming - Beating . Dancing naygrennd Equipment ideal for noccs CI riATUHAL SUHBOUNDGS S Miles Oat On Turner Bea4 at t:4S P. M. o THE CAMPUS! .7&1i MAJOXfXS I j SSXOWUS, fCKWAW f AS SIS rukj; . FOLLY L EDDS BERGEN MAYEIiOFF TREATS!! 1P.M. Daily 1 uy 1 m ' I - . EREvrrr Warner News, ITSrhy Crest if i Joe! Suwjes . 9 taCjSg .W i; Ccstooa Tex t If tNDS TONISHTI Open t-Starts at Dusk Free Pcny aUdeal : - Kabert Mltchaa -Ava Gardner ta niT It)EBIDDEN PAST"'.- . - - Smugglers bland " -ALSOI EOBINSON-TUXPIN - FIGHT!:; i, : SJ I Ceattnaevs Daily! LAST DAY! "Strangers on a Train Reooe fireman" T0M0RR0V1 lajirrjsiiHU'iTO.'B CfIFJlT.TillE3nE OS THE RACES! And awizow tmnm fttMfot aisssjeiaiaissBicx j -I 71 I , a a fig' ALSO! 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