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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 2, 1951)
. i - . . . . ! . i . . i . . ; FAIR FIRE QUELLED - A grass fire threatened .about 20 cars in a parking lot near the North 18th street entrance of the faigrounds Saturday afternoon, city firemen reported. It was first action for the fire department unit stationed at the grounds during Fair; Week. No damage resulted from the fire, which swept under the autos, fire men said. Open Labor Day, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Satter's Grocery, east Center St. past State Hospital. f.r Meyers Beauty Sboppe, 1405 N. Commercial St. Permanent waves, $5 up; Dial 3-7202. j v ; ADDED TO CHAMBER ! - Salem Chamber of Commerce has announced the addition to membership of Ross C. Miles, of the Northwest - Heavy Equipment Co, Salem route 9. For Sale: 1946 1-ton Ford pickup, excellent condition. Call 2-4151 or 3-5769. - . Fresh killed young turkeys to bake or fry for your Labor Day dinner 39c ib. Orwig's Market, 3975 Sil verton Rd." Ph. 2-8 123- . 1 GIRL RETURNS : Glenna Hill, 222 W. Lincoln st teen-age- girl reported missing ' since Tuesday, had returned home Saturday afternoon, city police were advised. J Emergency Crew at Fair Numbers 70 Augmented by city and county crews the usual police, fire pro tection and first aid, is being pro vided for the state fair by a crew of nearly .70 men. City Police Set. Elwood (Hap) Hewitt is in charge of the 55-man police force. This includes 12 off' duty city policemen. The rest are members of the Marion county she riffs reserve and fair-hired em' ployes. . 1 '-. , :;U A City Ambulance service is standing by forr serious emergency Injuries. It is stationed near 'the grandstand when horseracing is in progress during the day and at the horseshow pavilion at night .The city first . aid crew may also be called in to action. Hewitt said. Fire protection Is provided by a city fire department truck . and crew stationed on the grounds. SPALDING BUILDING SOLD PORTLAND. Sept. 1 -UP- The Portland Trust & Savings-bank has bought the 12-story Spalding building in downtown Portland I t , J - 1-1 . J wiai lirs r . Audiiis, president, saiu ji the name would be changed Jar the Portland Trust building. Pur chase price was reported at more than 1750,000. Salem ' (IPbiiiiarics NOBTOX Charles Norton, lata resident of .Sa lem rout . at a local hospital August 30. Survivtd by his wUc, Mrs.' Uw Norton, Salra; daughter. Mrs. Alvera Beck. Salem; sons. Harold Norton, Sa lem. Donald Norton. Oregon City. Ed' , ward Purcell, Lester Purcell and Ken Beth PurceU. all of Salem; sister, Mrs. Ida Ames, Portland; brothers, Reuben Norton and Lutrter Norton, both Port land; nine grandchildren. Services will be held at a p.m. Tuesday, September 4 at to viral j x. Golden cbapel. inter ment at Belcrest - Memorial park; Ritualistic services by me vrw witn fete Kv. Ctorft. a. 5 wilt omclatlnf.. " WARDEN ':; Gary V. Warden, Infant ton of Mr, and Mrs. Vera Warden, Valsetz. at , local hospital. August 28. Also sur vived by grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. -Carrol Warden and Mr. and Mrs. Guv ' Head, all of Valsetz. Graveside services wui oe reia -at i pm. rnursday, Sep tember at Beicrest Memorial park under . direction of CLoufh-Barrick . company, with Dr. Earl W. Benbow , etticaung. WOOD ' . Dhanaa P. Wood at the family red dene Salem route 3 box 721.- August SI. at the age of sa years. Survived by wife, Mrs. Margaret Wood. Salem; - three daughters. Mrs. Viola McBride. Oceanlake. Mrs. . Nancy Brewer, Sparks. Nev and Mrs. Mary, Alice . Deming. Belmont. Calif.: three sons, Alfred H. Wood. Mountain View. Cauf, Set William Wood. U S. Army; Korea, and frann Wood, Salem; also 11 grandchildren, services will be held at 1:30 ija. Tuesday. September 4. at Moweu-ia warns chapel with the Rev, Wilmer Brown cffK-uUng. Interment at Bcicren Memenal .park. HOOK ' - -v- Charlest Jtoaa Moore late resident of New berg, at &aiem route Z. Auxust 21 Survived by his wile, 'Mrs. Minnie IV Moore, Rewberg: daughter. Mrs. Ray field. Pasadena, Calif sons. Ken- Beth Moore. Newberg, Ross Moore. Mien, ana vnanes Moon, MCMinn vUle: sifters. Mrs. Iva CoodelL New. berg, and Mrs. Mabel Runkle. Los An- geies. cam.: also seven grandchildren. Announcement of aervicea later by the BECBTOLD , Mrjon Bechtoid. August SO. route 1 S box 9, Troutdale.. Ore. Wife of .Richard VJ. Bechtold, Portland: mother . of Patricia PhiUips. Salem; daughter el Mr. ana Mrs. ieo inman. Sam. Service Tuesday at I p m. in the urwci oom cnapel. colonial mor tuary. Sandy Blvd. at 14th. Portland. Vault -entombment. Mt. Crest Abbey mausoleum, saiem. a l p.m. Tuesday Frca Cdck ca Arthritis And Rbumatlsm How U avaid crippling defarmlties An amazing newly enlarged 44 pae"book entitled "Rheumatism will be sent free to anyone who will write for it. 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Decline Noted In Oregon's . r i -i 1 U i Pay Averages Shorter work weeks -in lumber. logging I and related industries brought ! a $4.50 decline in earn ings of all production workers dur ing, July, the Oregon Unemploy ment ' Compensation commission announced.- ; i ; The average was $73.38 against the $77.96 all-time high id June. Earnings in durable goods plants dropped from $83.10 in June to $76.43 in July which was barely higher than the $75.54 reported a year before;! But non-durable op erations ! averaged $65.09 a week against $62.74 in June and $61.21 a year ago i to keep the over-all fhrures from a further decline. Production workers in sawmills and logging camps worked only 37.6 hours a week during July against 40.4 hours in June and 39.1 a year before. Furniture plants cut back to an. average of 36.5 hours as compared with 40.2 hours the previous month. Machinery plants dependent upon lumbering also dropped! considerably, from 41.8 hours In June to 37.4 in July. Canning and preserving plants lengthened i work weeks to 44.7 hours against 36.7 In June and 41J a year ago. Average hourly pay dropped; slightly, because of the increase; in I women workers but weekly earnings jumped to $57.53 aa compared; with $48.45 the previ ous month and $51 last year.' Work Weeks of printing and pub lishing 'production workers also were; slightly lower but they in creased their margin for ton pay with 482.78 against $81.15 for pa permill workers, who obtained an increase; to take over second place from Joggers and null workers. Crash Results In Gitatiori Two autos were damaged slight ly and one driver cited on a charge of following too close in a collision at North Capitol and Market street early Saturday,? city police reported, ! Damage to the front' end of an auto qriyen "by Wilbur 'Clark Mar tin, Siletz, and the rear: of an auto driven by George LeRby Ganfen, 3215 Portland rd, were listed .by police. Martin posted $10 ball on the charge. No one was reported Injured. I ; j - : Yugoslavs Flee To Italy by Boat; ROME, Sept 1 Twelve Yugoslavs arrived at the Italian port city of Ban today after a two day voyage in a small i boat. The Italian news agency Ansa quoted them as saying, they fled fromt Yugoslavia because life has become impossible there. Several of them, the agency said, had serv ed time in prison. ' i Births HtTITA To Mr. and Mrs. Wil Ilam fHuhtaj 3393 Mmolai ave. Salem, a daughter, Saturday, Sep tember I, at Salem Memorial hos pital, i v '' BRADLEY ' To Mr. and Mrs- George : Bradley, Sublimity, daughter, Saturday, September 1, at Salem Memorial hospital. ' i '.,- .. , PORTER :i- To Mr.! and Mrs. Lloyd Porter Albany route 1, son. Saturday, September 1, at Salem Memorial hospitaL BANKSTON To Mr J and Mrs. EL M. Bankston, ' 3448 Williams ave., Salem, a daughters Saturday, September - L -at Salem General hospital. j.- -j - f GORDON U To Mrj ind Mrs James Gordon, 4240 Durbin ave. Salem, m son, Saturday, Septem ber lt at Salem General hospitaL 4-H Members,. Start Contests At State Fair : i (story also on page one) Four-H youngsters started their demonstrations Saturday at the 85th. Oregci State fair. This In cludes the famous dollar dinners. Judging will not get under way until Monday. i The food section in a new loca tion' in the agricultural pavilion reported almost twic as many entries as last year. Interest by men In this division,! increasing yearly, brought out a number of male entries this year Everett H. McNall of Oxetech, three miles east of Klamath, says that he drove all night to get to Salem : in time to enter his cake in competition. Mrs, Douglas McKay, Oregon's first lady, who has been a frequent cake exhibitor in the p;tsv4s again back with an angel f ooq cake. Sun day afternoon at 1:30 o'clock the food department will hold a dem onstration : on frozen foods with Profi Ruth Miller of Oregon State college doing the demonstrating. The space formerly occupied by the food division has been utilized largely by textiles. Mrs. C H. Cleaver of Albany, known to a number of the woolen show exhib itors, -is here with a display. Some StaHs Empty" I With two county fairs not clos ing until Saturday night, few stalls were still empty in the barns Saturday afternoon. Some sheep and more cattle were expected in Sunday morning from washing ton and Clackamas; counties. Horses are more numerous than usual and the overflow la housed in the cattle barns. -' Judging will get under , way on Monday morning on Guernseys, Holsteins, Brown Swiss, Herefords and sheep, poultry, rabbits and in the; swine division on Duroc Jer seys, Chester wnites, roiancj Chinas and honey bees. Modern dancing Is being held every night except Sunday and Wednesday, at 8 p nu, in the pa vilion above the Future Farmers building. Wednesday night at o'clock a square dance jamboree will be held, with groups from an over the stajte participating. Fiddlers Contest Set ; The old-time fiddlers contest, at first slated to be held at 8 o'clock each' night, will start Monday at 2 p.m. and continue through each afternoon at that time also in the dance pavilion- ! ! While farm machinery is not so plentiful as in - the Told days,' much more is on display this year than in recent years. Tractors, some harvesting machinery and considerable in the cultivation line are being exhibited by local Salem companies. . , Irrigation ; ' system exhibits- are more plentiful than usual. Logging and trucking equip ment are being shown this year for' the first time.- . New, too, are tepees jqf Umatilla' Indians pitched in front of the horse show pavilion. Indians them selves are colorful additions to the Umatilla county boothj where the Pendleton Round-up is being fea tured this year. Inducted among : 1 ' 1 . ll 1 ine Indians 19 iioreoce xurovc, chief of the Umatilla .tribe. . Both Drivers v Cited iii Wreck Two autos were damaged "and both drivers cited by city police in a collison at Capitol and D streets Saturday afternoon, police said. - Marlene Velma KendolL 485 Lost In- was cited on a charge o following too close and Laddie Frank Kucera, 1348 Lee st was cited on a charge of failure to pro vide proper license plates, police said. Front end damage was lifted for the Kendoll car, rear' end dam age for the Kucera vehicle. No' in juries were reported. H -; - in r-.v-.;"-v- 4 Salem Men in Marine Class n ' ...... . ,f! r '.Four Salem area" men are In special marine platoon leaders' training class at San Diego, Calif. lAmBlimij Tritclcto Car to Street 1 r i lafr S A . - . i m ii I ' ' 1 ; : . Damage' eansed by this load ef lumber as It slipped eff truck Friday evening at 12th and Coori streets Is examined by the drivers, city police and ethers. The drivers, kneeling at the front of the ear. were Vincent A. Spenner, SJayton route L ef the track, and George LeTourneanx. 635 Waldo ave, ef the car. The; utter had just parked and was standing on the curb aide of the car when the lumber fell. 300 Pints of Blood Set as Goal Thursday Three hundred pints of blood Is the goal i for ' Salem's next Thursday, to get blood day Marlon county "out of the redt in-its ac counting between blood; given and that used by residents, The unit will be at the armory from noon to S pjn. I During August patients In Sa lem hospitals used 147 j pints, but only 206 ; pints were donated, of wtch half are destined for the armed forces overseas and veter ans hospitals. In addition to the banked blood, more was used at Salem and, Silverton from "walk ing" donors. f ,;-! , , Officials pointed out that blood has come to be used jin routine treatment as well as in emergen cies for sin-gery, obstetric and ac cident cases. Hospitals, may not charge .for the blood,' but can for laboratory and administrative costs. Red Cross asked that donors. when possible, schedule their vis its to i the blood bank In advance, in order to speed the process. This is done by calling the Red Cross chapter office. Marion county Is visited twice monthly by. the mobile unit, the first Thursday at Salem and later in the. month in some outlying community. At "present! more than' 100 groups participate oh a month ly basis in sending donors. . r : " ' - Bride Injured InAccideiit " MrsJ Robert McLahe, 374 Chem eketa ; st., is in Salem; Memorial hospital with a fractured skull suf fered in an accident August 21 at Port Orford. She was reported Sat urday as convalescing ana a Die to have visitors. Mrs, McLane, who was Barbara Keener until her marriage August 11, and McLane were; returning from their honeymoon on a motor cycle "when they collided-with a car driven by H. F. Ehzkh of San Marino, Calif. - ;l j' - , -McLane sustained a head lacera tion. His )lfe was returned to Sa lem a! week ago. Postal Receipts Decline in August Salem postof fice receipts for Au gust dropped. 3.8 per cent below the total for August, 1950, Post master Albert C. Gragg said Sat urday. , Receipts for the month just end ed were $61,576. Jleceipts for the last two months total $129,658 compared with $122,183 for July August of last year, Gragg said. X-Ray Retake Center Open 2 More Days Tuesday and Wednesday are the last days of operation in 'Marion eounty lor Willamette valley X ray retake center. The center serves as a second screening for persons who have been X-rayed in the original sur vey. When a shadow Is seen on an X-ray taken by a mobile unit the person on whom the picture was mapped la asked to report back so that a large film can be made. ; Those who have been unable to keep previous appointments at the retake center were urged to come in Wednesday. Office hours 'are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p-m. An ap pointment rtime change may : be made by calling 4-3335, 'extension 15, in Salenv ' f.2 2-Car Wreck fc Damages? OtHer Autos An Austin sedan and a Ford coupe collided at North 12th and Chemeketa streets, damaging both cars considerably and bouncing the Ford into two parked cars shortly before noon Saturday, eity police reported-: The Austin, driven north on North 12th street by Fred L. Evans, 3155 D st., sustained "complete" front end damage, police reported. The other auto, driven east on Chemeketa street by John Manit sas. 2S0 N, 23rd st- bounced after the collision from one side of the street to the other, striking two parked- autos, police said, ; Both front and rear end damage were listed. ' -. " Manitsas auff ered minor cuts and bruises, police said. The Statesman, Sclera, Oregon, Sunday, September 2.' 12515 ILyre Isegins 48tliYearas Salem Banker j David .W. Eyre began .Saturday has 48th! consecutive year la the banking business at State and Commercial streets. 1 He began' with the Salem State bank at ithe northwest corner !of the intersection. It later was con verted into the United States Na tional bank of Salem and Eyre was president of the institution from 1918 to 1933. j It ; became a branch of the Uniied SUtes National of Tertian J. wtil rn later acquired the Ladd and Bush bank and consolidated the two branches at the offices of toe latter on the southeast" corner cf the same Intersection, f ' Erre is vice president of the U. S, National of Portland and man ager of its Ladd & Bus! - Salem branch. He admits that be has seen a lot of i history, 1 financial and otherwise In that period from his vantage point at State and Com mercial., t -.. ! . TB CASES DISCOVEXEP ASTORIA, Sept. 1 -WV Sevta pos:itive cases of tuberculosis were fouad in j chest X-rays of 11,552 Clatsop county residents, the coun ty health department reported to day. Seven cases of chest tumor also were disclosed. a . Latvian Rite Scheduled at Salem Church j A special church service for confirmation of 14 teen-aged Lat vians from Oregon and Washing ton is slated for Sunday, Septem ber 9, at 3 pjn. in St- Mark Evan gelical Lutheran church in Salem. Two girls from Salem are in cluded, Kaija and Vija, daughters of Dr and Mrs. A. Lletuvietis. ! The Latvian language service, open to the public, will be con ducted by Prof. M. Kundzins and Pastor E. Macs, both of Longview, Wash, . and . former residents of Latvia. Three Latvian soloists will sing. ; - j tlevkuputsSll-Odb t I u 1 1 price tagen yciir driver's license! .ii : "i j TU sew Tmmdej InptmAlAf taw. )sst sssnl ! . - b ow la tfftl k swoas tiot N ease ssiirM ass m Wsh ea 0 or i ,1 : Mafessa - ffla. XvImsi sstsBSsaWaaS tsAasM aj n L t OaSi atassBasa OfeakassO sssBwaosAO SsaaBOS IMS jWm Wyw W VtWVo rffftCf J9m ttpM w9 W99m IV ii FaW est Uwf 9W . csl or oosm h toss. 416 Masenk Bldg. Insu ronco. Agency Corner Stale and Klsh Phone 4-3 rOI Salenv Ore. far t v. m mm J . See . It 1 - ran i r 1 cyaa w teai 1 - . , Hogg Bros. Exhibit The State Fair! i .- . j . . N. W. Corner of t he Agriculture Bldg, 2nd Floor 7? . -t ill v -v i -v : i i - BPJS. You ':Hovi you have a ilflAYTA AUTOMAilG , 1 - ... i i. h i --ji- y " I . ; - i S - i . vt . IV I I s II ' VI I I L 1 I i it was reported here by U. S. ma line corps information olflcials. Those taking the college stu dents summer . training under a reserve officer training program are Douglas Klein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gideon Klein, 1730 Madison st, Salem; Robert B. Lester; son of Robert E. Lester, Silverton; James A. Colleran. son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Colleran, 195 S. Cottage st, and Donald J. Fulham, son of Mr. and Mrs.' oJseph Fulham, McMinn ville. - - ' y ' . Most people, it has been found, are unable to hold a camera and shoot a, picture at less than l25th of a second. 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