Thm Statesman. Scflanv. Ofgoa,.Tlgdgy Attyast 2X IS51
1? p?Oif tin CT AT
jelly's Schools
Being Rushed
The annual lc lifting of Che
Salem public schools is being
rushed to completion, with less
than month to go before some
8.023 school children troop back
- Into hails and classrooms. .
Only one project appears as if
It might race to the wire, and
that is the completion of the new
Baker school -which, according to
M. IL Drake, superintendent 6t
buildings and grounds for the city
schools. Is slightly behind sche
dule.
Contractors hay said that de
lays In -getting materials may hold
top completion of the new school
for children In grades one through
; three until close to Christmas.
Ceankilea Expected
- The remaining targe projects,
the remodeling of five elementary
schools, should be completed well
In advance Xtt the opening date.
September 1 0. And a good thing,
Drake says, for after, the contrac
tors finish their end of the buHd-
ng, rtews from the school district
must begin the task of laying wax.
leaning windows and readying
'things for the arrival of children
and teachers. .
Painting, as usual, comprises
y. mwwwm ww wi wn wus
the school district which annually
repair damages to lnsldes smudg
ed from heating "systems and
masked by chalk, dust, pencils,
scuffs and a host of other things,
and outside walls, battered from
rains, winds and snow.
But improvements are 'noted
this year In fields other -than mere
renovating.
, New Cafeteria Set
A new cafeteria will greet stu
dents st Grant school. The cafe
teria was formerly a portable
building, used for storage, at the
north-east side or tne school
grounds. It will feed some 150
children a day. Drake said.
But, outside of Baker school.
the biggest summer Job has come
In remodeling and building at
Richmond, McKinley, Highland,
Pringle and West Salem schools,
where a total of 24 new class
rooms are being built, in addition
to offices and multipurpose rooms
at McKinley and Richmond
at Pringle. The older parts of all
-the buildings have been complete
ly remodeled, Drake said.
Work has been continued on the
school district's visual education
facilities. Drake estimates that
with that part of the project com
pleted this summer, mostly in the
.aj X- dark curtains and light
proofing, the district's visual edu
cation faculties are about 60 per
cent completed.
Another heavy outlay has come
tn acoustical work. A room at the
senior high school has been fixed
y bv ui.i uww t van w iiku ius
radio broadcasting room which
fJalem high presently does not
have. Acoustical - work has also
partially soundproofed the cafe
teria at Liberty school.
' a1ay Fields Improved
In playground facilities, Drake
aid that most of the work this
summer has been spent in install
ing backstops and fixing up base-
tall end Softball fields, rences
have been put in at several schools.
Some modernization was under-
taken at Leslie junior high school,
which was originally built without
any electrical outlets. Those have
been installed in all the school's
classrooms.
The Enrlewonirl irhrwl aiirfltnr-
"ttim floor was sanded and varn
ished over the summer, one of the
biggest examples of that annual
Kew Warehouse for Scbeola
One other large project, of ma
terial Importance to the school
system, but which won't be seen
by too many taxpayers, is the new
district storerooms and shops, lo
cated at 13th and Ferry streets, in
quarters formerly occupied by the
city shops. There will be put all
the district supplies plumbing
material, paint, glass, wax, var
nish which now are found scat
tered through the school adminis
tration building on north High
' street.
And an Impressive lot of ma'
senai wiu oe stored there, ac
cording to Drake. There Is no ac
curate estimate of the- amount of
; paint the district uses each year
on these summer cleanup jobs and
spot jobs through out the year (al
though Drake figures no store In
Salem keeps the needed amount on
hand) but for some other materi
als estimates are known.
During the next year, Drake
figures the district will use from
00 to 1000 gallons of wax, 500 to
cua gallons of varnish, and 600
to 1000 gallons of roof coating. In
edition, tremendous amounts of
lass are used annually. -
But the "touching up" of the
schools wont end with September
10. On the contrary, such tasks
as carpentering, mumninr. wax
ing, landscaping, gardening and a
host of others will keep the
grounds and buildings department
busy for the next tune ntSf.
Barely Wins Race
ounterV 70,
With Oldster, 100
' STRUG A, Tcgoslavia-VBere
tn the Yugoslav Republic of Mace
donia, the people like an aging
rooster- grow tougher as they
grow older.
' Josif Celevski turned 1S3 years
eld recently, still proud of bis
vigor. Nikola KratovskJ, an old
crony, scoffed that Joe was getting
eld. Naturally, Joe was annoyed.
so ne chsnesgea r.Jtoia to a foot
race, at C3 meters.
Nikola won. But only by the
lcnrf-Jt cf Joe's whiskers, carefully
cuiavsted ever the past century.
It probabZy proves the old saying
that a good young man is faster
fiaa an oil one. For Nikola is just
youth cdy 73 years old.
TEose Oklahoma Giildren
Really Do Own an Elephant
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Inspectlea
leek ever Jady.
By Bead seldaaaa
OKLAHOMA CITY -()- Host any child In Oklahoma win tell
you he owns part of -an elephant And he Isn't fibbing! -
f Of course, it might be just a nickers worth, "but just the same,
the tyke has an interest la Judy, five-year-old beauty aa
elephants go. j - .- j
Judy has jnst been grsdaaied from elephant school magna
rem land. There's aw deabt abeet It, her prefeaeer said. Jady
is a baby elephant genras.
With mortar board and diploma, she paraded before many of
her owners here and displayed what she learned in her search
for higher education. Now she performs every day for voo visitors.
Judy lives at Oklahoma City's famed Lincoln Park Zco, but
she was purchased by donations of children In the state. It all
started in February, 1849 after Luna, the ancient and beloved
Eachyderm at the zoo, had to be put to death because of Illness
rought on by old age. :
At Kingfisher, Okla, Duanne Andrews, a high school student,
sent a small contribution and suggested a fund be started to buy a
new elephant The idea mushroomed and the first day more than
$700 in contributions were received. At the same time, each con
tributor was asked to suggest a name. The goal was $4,500 but
before the drive ended, it went past $7,500.
i The additional anoney! waa used te bay ether animals fee
the see. Contriowtiens even arrived from as far off aa Alaska
and Seatth America. v: . , . - ; .
And a child who contributed even a penny - had his
name inscribed In the elephant owners' log which now is displayed
at the zoo. Then are morei than 50,000 names and address re
corded. The name Judy was selected because it was suggested
more times than any other. . -:'---
With the money in hand, zoo keeper Julian Frazier went to.
the west coast to inspect a shipment of elephants arriving from
Slam. But actually, he didnt select Judy. It was the other way
' around. As he circulated among the elephants, one dainty, gentle
850-pounded playfully f elt frazier's ankle with her trunk. She
850-pound ed playfully felt Frazier'a ankle with her trunk. She
butted him and trumpeted loudly.
1 That's the one," Frazier announced. 1 thought so before
and Fm sure of It now." ?i
Jady waa takea to the Feet Worth Zee far keeaiag muffl
fenaal eeeataar eat party eeuld be arranged here. Taafa
where she get her first taste ef southwest weather. Floods
hit the Fert Worth area and the water lapped ap to her pea.
However, she managed to keep her feet dry and she was
hurriedly trucked to Oklahoma City. More than 13,000 children
turned out for her debut In Oklahoma City. There were bands,
clowns, a magician, free shows and refreshments.
The first day Judy was at her new home in the zoo, 60,000
persons turned out to see her.
Last January, Frazier decided Judy was old enough to go to
school so she could perform tricks for her benefactors. She
packed her trunk and went to Perry, Okla, where Animal Trainer
Bert Pettus started teaching her.
I .Jady Immediately ahewed she waa a preeodeve paehy
derm. Only ene thing kept her working after class hew te
att ap. She received St per cemt lav that subject. .
. However, the rest of her report card would have male her
jungle mother trumpet with; delight It read;
' "Deportment 100; catwalk 90; turnabout on catwalk 89; danc
ing 83; curtsy 954 , ; -
Thoiidit Brotlier
Head Was Melon .
CAIRO -ff- Ismail Hassen ap
peared before a court charged
with attempting to murder his
brother. . "i :.;
"My : brother was sleeping In a
watermellon field," ) he told the
Judge., "All of a sudden I had a
dream. I dreamed my brother's
head was a watermelon. So X tried
to cut lit open with my knife to
find out if it was a good one. .
, Other witnesses testified Hassen
was jealous because his brother
won his girl away. He was
fenced to hard labor for
years. :,v
DANXS HATS FSOBLE1IS
NEW YORK Hamlet, the
melancholy Dane, still has a lot
of relatives in Denmark. The sui
cide rate in Denmark Is far high
er man In Holland or Finland, and
so Is addiction to drugs, says a re
port of Dr. Alf Yde tn tho journal
of the American Medical Associa
tion. He says this indicates a far
higher Incidence of mental depres
sion In Denmark.
Every ; wli parent knows that
preparing Junior end Sis for
school is' en important affair
You save yourself time, trouble
end expemo vh;n ycu do your
shopping in our storo. Friendly,
convenient end economical, too.
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Sad-faced Dan
Says He Won't
FmstrateMen
By Gene Tland taker
HOLLYWOOD Movies frus
trate American men, argues
Danny Thomas, by rtarring ex
handsome gents
like Robert
Taylor and Tv-
rone Power.?
The chmless or ?
a 1 ep h a n t-!
eared customer T
thinks. What!
chance have I ;
with a beauti- ; -
ful dame r ' s N
Now an that) 0 I
Is changed. L ..J
Danny himself,
the sad-faced comedian, is
starred opposite Doris Day - In
T11 See You in My Dreams".
He marries her In this musical
biography of the lata lyricist,
Gus Kahn. Kisses her seven or
eight times In the course of the
movie. ' i
Will this pairing, which brought
cries of "What?" among several
top Warner aides when Director
Mike Curtis first proposed it, be
beUevable? j
"We think so," Danny said,
"Tve made Doris cry in two re
hearsals.'' She's supposed to be
in love with his beautiful spirit
"Happens aU the time in real
life. People say, How could a
Deauurui woman uxe ner ever
marry a guy like him? '
Danny did a stage act In Chi
cago and New York a few months
ago with Marie (The Body) Mc
Donald. In it he argued that for
realism, he should play a roman
tic lead tn the movies. Marie
would laugh, and Danny would
turn to the audience and say:
"Look at these poor men men
with big noses, too large ears, or
no cnins at an. Think bf the
chisel-chinned Adonises who are
being squirted on the screen
week after week. Naturally the
men in the audience feel a sense
of frustration. For the morale
of American men, if s high time
a man with a puss like mine
played a romantic lead."
Danny told me that "practically
e tnafi 4V - -
to a man", the male customers
like
stood and yelled phrases
-xou teu 'em, Danny!"
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half story farm home con tains
1444 square feet of floor area pn
the ground floor, 34 square feet
cpatamv Tne artist's drawing and
sfloor plan shows the dining wing
attached, but tt may be added
later. Plans are available ttrough
the Oregon State College Farm
house Plan Service, .Corrailis.
When ordering working drawings,
ask for plan number 7017 and en
close SIjSQ. other plane may be
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German Red
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Draft Planned
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BONN, GernanylVWest Ger
man socialists claim that general
military service wCf be introduced
in the Soviet zone of ' Germany
soon. V - i '! ' r '
A review of East' German re
armament, published by the head
quarters of the socialist party here,
says the "Volkspolixei", a mili
tary cadre of approximately 5,000
officers and menl is ready to hand
le a flood of recruits. .
Paper work for the large call-
up has already been done, the re
view states, under the pretext ox
collecting workers far cranium
mim Mass medical examinations
ere dven to determine fitness
for underground work. This infar
msUon, the review says, can sow
be used as the basis lor the fu
ture draft.
TRADITION TO THS TTIND3
NEW YORKV'Reverxing long
standing policy, the William Wal
dorf As tor estate, has bought 19
parcels of upstate realty, in Syra
cuse and Rochester. Traditionally,
the estate has concentrated its
holdings In Manhattan and vicinity.
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