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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1951)
Plenty of Grampsj Creak GrdmpHorBavid 1 J - 4 , , . . : aKl. .WI4 TVw4it Vtvmtlal la iuiimiM H mMm mkXmm J mu - wfce wen ea hand 8day to celebrate the S5ta weddlnr anniversary of the Kev. and Mrs. Oliver R.T l!l5!?r?'.Peelve Bacea (left), seated), 1175 N. 24U at. Also seated-are! DtTWi vutst. Ui WBUam Braakalav S7I r Thoxapeea stc, and the Ksrmead Brmnkals, W Unloafst, who like the OUrer Bacons art grand Mmb of David. Standing are David's sisi great grandparents (left to right), the Key. George of Brooks, the E. J. nimmona. rtruiM. an UtTul Btaveaaaa, 7 S. Winter as. Eldest great te Mr. Hiwfflen. 77. i . John Thomas, 72, Succumbs To Illn ess John Thomas, 72, Salem resi dent since 1898, died Monday in a local hospital after eight months illness. He was an employe of the old Spauldlng Lumber company and Its successor, Oregon Pulp it Paper company, for 23 years until retiring- in March, 1950. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 pm. Wednesday at Clough Barrick chapel with Elder R. G. Schaffner officiating. Interment will be at City View cemetery. Thomas was born Aug. 11, 1879, In LineriUe? Iowa, moving - to Kansas as a small boy, then mov ing to Salem at the age of 19. In 1909 he was married in Salem to Mattie Rkkman, who died in 1912. He was married to Grace Zirkle, who survives, March 29, 1914. He was a member of the Seventh Day Adventlst church and at one time was a member of Woodmen of the World lodge. .. . Survivors Include his widow, Mrs. Grace A. Thomas, 670 S. 18th St.; daughters, Mrs. Irene Am- . . . . . j 1 1 mann ana Mrs. Anna ataoaen; '14 . m i n. r , poui aaiem; sons, zipja, jrvi '' Allen, Delbert, aU of Portland, and Harold of Walla Walla. Wash.; sisters, Mrs. Emma Woods Nep tune, Salem, Mrs. Kate Litton, Lineville, Iowa; also 12 grand children and three great-grand children.. T Grains Drop, ; Except Wheat CHICAGO, Aug. 20 -Cn- All grains except wheat eased on the Hnirrf nt Trail tivtav rlui a lest eased during most of the session. ttut It staM HmM ran Mar the close and ended with minor . gains. . . Wheat closed 4-1 higher, corn lower, oats S lower to higher, rye (new style) -2 lower, soybeans Mi to 2 cents low er and lard 2 to S cents a hundred pounds lower. - ----- ' Traders attributed the late up turn in wheat, which was not ac companied by any great Increase In activity, mainly to covering by shorts, some of whom took that side of the market at the opening. Reports that Italy would buy 10 cargoes of wheat tomorrow back- grounded the movement. llllilllllil'lihlllllillllkN 1CHES liaKlsn H'a Itard f fiad tmtm feed fee easel! Alii wkile travel- ! It a elweya aefee teke feed freas I DQGUJ a VELiy lc6xf$ j rr eaS X-ray effmeihr eeMle aarvcy tilfHnt at tfewifaUewtec Hears AUGUST 21 (la Salem) - BUhps rayless Drag -.11-8 LAST DAT TODAY Solons Fail to r . m i on i axes A ! WASHINGTON, Auj.20 - (By The senate 1 finance committee failed today to reach the voting stage on its J mammoth new tax bilL but Chairman George (D Ga.) said balloting may begin to morrow, t I i The house has passed bill call ing for $7,200,000,0001 In new taxes. Senators may reduce this amount in their version of the measure and! change the method of raising more than $2,000,000,000 in new income taxes. ,.- I George said most of the day was spent In discussing mutual savings banks, building and load associa tions, co-operatives and! loopholes in the present tax laws! ! Earlier, Senator Williams (R DeL) told newsmen th4j treasury had supported his proposal for taxing undistributed earnings of co-ops at the corporation income leyy rate. I f Stocks Limp Slowly Doito NEWJOHK, AugJ20-AV Plagued'by mechanical difficul ties in its high speed quotations system, the stock market today limped through a slow and slight ly lower session. - I - The breakdown In the stock ticker system came shortly after II amr (EST) and persisted to the close. An emergency : circuit was established over the exchange's bond quotations system within an hour after the blackout started, and i this enabled the market to keep going. ? ' J The Associated Press average of 60 stocks lost 10 cents fit $96.80 with the Industrial component off 20 cents, rails down 30 cents, and utilities up 10 cents. ! The volume of trading fwas lim ited to 1,130,000 shares with 530, 000 shares of the total id the first two hours, before the ticker ser vice breakdown. t ; i S . -J f-;-v.'i Because of natural friction at the banks, a stream moves more slowly at the sides than at the center. ; - Rams Sell ior $370 Average, National Sale SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 20H) -Columbia stud rams sold for an average of $370 at the 35th annual national ram sale today. Stockmen from all of the sheep growing states and Canada crowd ed the sales ring at the North Salt Lake stockyards. W. A. Denecke, Bozeman, MonL, paid top price of $560 for a year ling ram offered by Shelly Broth ers of Billings, Mont. Chris Anderson, Sheridan, Mont, paid $473 for a yearling ram sold by C. W. Dorney of Monte Vista, Colo. J. A. Birie of McGrath, Canada, bought a year ling from Pete Thomas, Malad City, Idaho, for $460. Sale of pens of registered rams followed the auctioning of the Columbia. Other breeds will be auctioned later. Arrests Due in Circus Murdei SPOKANE. Aug. 20-aVA Spo kane police official said today that charges probably will be filed to morrow against at least two sus pects in the murder of . circus roustabout Clarence Watkins. Capt. W. H. Cox of the detective division said police today ques tioned six suspects, all negro cir cus laborers. He indicated at least two of them would face charges tomorrow. - Watkins skull was crushed with a heavy steel tent stake while he slept Two Lebanon Boys Found LEBANON, Aug. 29 -flV A short time after a mother reported today that her two sons had been missing for five days, they were found hitchhiking near Browns ville. '. - The mother, Mrs. Virgil Win Chester, notified Police Chief Ben Scheie .that her sons. Earl Selby, 10, and Harold Selby, 12, left home Thursday to catch a bus to the bean fields. They didn't come back, despite a birthday party planned for that night, she said. : A radio station (KGAL) broad cast the reported disappearance. A little later a . listener in Craw fordsville called in to say he had seen them near Brownsville. Brownsville Police Chief Bob Cal houn picked them up. SCan no Served OcGbing ' ' Tng Craslies on BandonRocW BANDOX Ore. Act 28 -V The ocean-going tug, L. H. Coc lidge, went on the rocks at the north jetty here early today. Crew members, none of whom was in jured, said the steering gear Jam med. : ;. Capt Sam Greer said the tu was outbound with a bargeload of peeler log when she hit. The tug Quinette, also owned by the Upper Columbia River Towing company, rescued the Coolidge-crew and pulled the .barge away from the rocks. -.- ;:;iv--..- :: ; The tug. which coast ruardsmen said was breaking up, j valued at $300,000 by its owners. v iTffther north, another tur. the Go-Getter, owned by Sause Bros. lowing co. Garibaldi, grounded on the south side of the entrance to Tillamook bay today. It was pulled free durimt the afternoon high tide. CAUSES LOSS TN BILLIONS WASHINGTON -WV We could re-erm on the twelve billion dol lars annual loss from deteriora tion of things we use, if we could billion figure is from the Preven tion of Deterioration Center of the National Academy of Sciences. The deterioration includes everything from a hundred million dollars that moths eat to five billions that rust takes. Land plants, amphibians and reptiles came into existence in the latter part of the Paleozeie era of geology. .Forest Rro Sidplights Bv the Associated Press (Story also on page 1) . f The Portland Bonny Slope fire gave the state's civil defense set up its first test Sunday night. Fire equipment from as far away as Mc&Iinmrille answered the call when the fire looked about ready to set out of hand. T The Vmeeat Creek fire tat Deaataa t anty tvevudat tajavy t. twe workers Monday: Geerge Gillie. . Gardiner lumber cent inf wrker suffered twe frae terea eff Us! rtchft leg. Jackie Jeesen, 17. Keedspert high sckeet Jaadef, aaffeted aerieas back and head lajariea wmea a ! Feeding the fire fighters has been a problem in some areas. Restaurants gt Reedsport and nearby towns have been turning out hundreds of sandwiches for men fighting the Vincent Creek blaze. ! Everywhere the . csoieaa by atanders plagned fire flgntera, It wae an acute problem for the Portland Benny Slope fire San day night because people eeacung heme front the beach eathe S onset highway saw the smoke and tvrned off by the hxndreds to head tn toward Skyliae boulevard. Felice, seat these back again and the reads were' The fire was accompanied by beat. In Portland Monday the air port temperature was SS degrees lust after noon, then it went up a degree an hour until if "reached 93 at 430. But by 4:l the down town thermometer on the customs house registered 98 degrees. lacoina Gty Council Votes Vice Probe TaCOMA. Aug. 20-UIVThe city council this afternoon passed bv a four to five vote an ordinance di recting Mayor John H. Anderson to pick a new vice squad for Ta ma to clean un the situation laid bare in an investigator's re port last week. Only Safety Commissioner James T. Kerr turned thumbs down. . . The ordinance gives full police power to the mayor-aPDomted squad and stipulates that Kerr must approve the appointments if the men are. selected from the police department Anderson said tonight Kerr had assured h"n he would O JL, anyone the mayor chose to appoint. , ' A resolution proposing the or dinance passed unanimously earli er in the day. . , . ? . ; A report oh vice conditions here, which was . read to the council Friday, touched off the firing of Chief of Police Anthony Zatko vitch, the second Kerr appointee to be removed by council action from that post. ' When Kerr attempted to retain Zatkovich, first as acting chief, then as head of the morals squad, commissioner of publie utilities C A. Tdhl accused him of "open defiance' of the council's orders. Kerr said today he had placed Capt. Earl D. Cornelison in charge of the police station as senior captain. This left the city still without a police chief. The 84-page document, prepared Turtle Makes Es6apefr om Chicago Cafe CHICAqO,Aui. 2!H5VHenrt etta. the headstrong hoyden, was hoisted from hiding and hauled home today. Henrietta isi the 275-pound tur tle who wandered away from the seafood shop of her owner in su burban Lincoln wood, July 28. Des pite e $l-ja-pound reward offered by Ownerj Led Slutzkin, her get away appeared complete. Slutzkin Thm Clslssatga. ScUaJ Oregon. Tuesday. JUk?sssI II; 11317 under direction of the mayor's of fice, scored police laxity in dealing with prostitution and bootlegging. decided to do ft litge detectU Work, i , . ; :. ' His shop adjoins the Bryn llaws? Country dub. The dob ha a aa goon where Slutzkiq said ac3 dies sometimes take quick; un authorized swims. Slutzkin got to thinking after he noticed reteug the - caddies wwildn't nria- ia there for love or money.'" Today a safari of Slutzkin and two helpers set out to probe the shallow depths of the lagoon. They waded in, and quickly spotted Henrietta. The men prodded bar onto the bank, grabbed her flip pen and turned hcTwellturtiai Henrietta was obviously in good health, j - . . The men loaded the four-foot amphibian in the trunk of; Sluts kin's auto and returned her to her old tank. j i Fishing industry. - Iceland's principal CERAMICS 1 FALL CLASSES NOW FORMING! Morning, v Afternoon or Evening Classes . i be arranged. r. .;. ,' , may Look VISITORS WELCOME for pur sign 10 miles east on highway.! DeSARTS Salem-SI I vtrton GRQNWAU SUPfUIl custom mam raw WGoJdinLooi) with Com i Monty dolly fw- J' h ?oostxnd otlver hc IpSEi .. 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